DJI owns 62% of the smart camera market, Insta360 20%. Now they're suing each other over patents—and both just withdrew their US cases to fight in China. The Aug 3 trial could reshape the entire drone and camera market.
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Last week DJI answered everywhere but America; this week the asymmetry turned concrete — Insta360's X6 sailed through the exact US FCC certification the Covered List denies DJI's new gear. DJI did what it still can: it widened the Pocket 4 Pro's non-US rollout and teased a third straight enterprise drone, while the World Cup crackdown blew past 500 seizures and reached CNN. Five stories, in priority order, with our take on each.
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Last week we said the Pocket 4 Pro's pricing silence had become a forfeit; this week it broke — but the launch routes around the US, not toward it. DJI answered on the two fronts it's allowed to win, shipping its flagship pocket camera worldwide and publishing a first-responder playbook for American police, while the doors Washington shut stayed shut. Five stories, in priority order, with our take on each.
Last week we predicted the jump from civil fines to a criminal charge; this week it landed — and a DJI Mini 3 Pro is now named in a federal charging document, as World Cup seizures climbed into the dozens. In Washington, the FCC opened a re-entry lane for foreign drones that excludes DJI by name, while DJI itself spent the week shipping enterprise gear into the exact segment the ban is premised on. Five stories, in priority order, with our take on each.
Many new DJI products are blocked from US sale by the FCC Covered List. Here's the gear you can order today.
The current DJI Air drone — in stock in the US today while the Air 4 stays blocked.
$1,439.00
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Under 250g, so no FAA registration. The budget DJI you can still buy stateside.
$439
Prefer to skip the DJI ban entirely? Autel's Air-class rival ships freely in the US.
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