Article from the Mundo Drone archive, published 12 March 2020 and updated 30 June 2020. Text merged on 28 October 2026 from all its 2020 versions; specifications, availability and regulations may have changed since.
Launched in 2016, this model was one of the latest Phantom models to be released. Without a doubt this is the saga that has placed DJI where it is, and in this particular model (and now with its version 2.0 that is still on sale), they continue to show that it can still give a lot of war.
Analysis and features of DJI Phantom 4 Pro
It is easy to get lost in the great pantheon of consumption drones. Even just looking at the options of industry-leading DJI, there are enough options to make your head spin faster than a quadricopter propeller. Today we will focus on one option: DJI Phantom 4 Pro +. In its 2.0 version, this marks the top end of what could be considered the DJI consumption line, with the next ascending level being the Inspire 2 of professional level.
At first glance, the Phantom 4 Pro + (P4P +, if you wish) looks exactly like the normal Phantom 4 (which we loved) or the Advanced Phantom 4. Four propellers, white body, fixed legs and a camera in a gimbal hanging from your landing gear. But there is an obvious difference here: the remote control that comes with it. It is the first DJI remote control with built-in display, a 5.5-inch display with a 1080p resolution, and is brilliant. Very bright. Too many times we have exhausted the muscles of our eyes by squinting our eyes at the screen of a phone or tablet in sunlight while trying not to crash a drone. Despite being smaller than an iPad, this is one of the best screens that can be used to fly on sunny days.
The screen is really a small tablet, with a somewhat old Android version (version 5.1.1 Lollipop, no Google or Play Store apps), and in general works very well. It starts and is ready to run in 24 seconds when you turn on the remote control, which makes the fastest drone of Phantom 4 Pro + DJI launch. The touchscreen is quite receptive and all the automatic "smart modes" introduced with the P4 are included here. Unfortunately, there is no slot for a SIM card, so if you want to stream your flight via Facebook Live or another streaming app, you must connect to a Wi-Fi network. This most likely means using your phone as an access point. The remote control has 16 GB of built-in storage, a micro SD card slot if you want something else and a full-size HDMI port so you can see your flight on an external monitor.
The drone itself also has some real improvements. The 1-inch image sensor on your camera can take 20 megapixel still images, and has an impressive dynamic range of 11.6 steps. Its field of view of 84 degrees is remarkably narrower than the 94 degrees of the P4, which is disappointing. I prefer to have a wider shot that captures more of the landscape than I can then trim later if I wish (easy when 4K is recorded), but the image quality is undeniable.
Don't hurt us, brother.
The Phantom 4 was the first DJI drone to offer obstacle avoidance, but it only worked when flying forward. The P4P+ has visual avoidance of obstacles forward, backward and downward. It works extremely well in all three directions. When you fly near an object, the drone slows down or stops completely, giving you an audible alert through the remote control. It also has some side obstacle avoidance, but it only works in beginner and tripod modes and is not as robust as forward/backward avoidance.
Smart flight modes also work really well. The orbit mode allows you to set a central point and fly circles around you, with a variety of options of speed, distance and altitude, and it worked extremely well. The tripod mode will provide you with an extremely stable shot, as if the camera was sitting on an aerial tripod. The modes I was most interested in were the active track modes where you play a theme on the screen and the drone follows it. It does extremely well in flat and clear environments, but is easily confused with other objects, such as large rocks. The "profile tracking" mode is designed to fly next to you and produces some excellent images, but if you drive the brakes too fast, it will fly right next to you.
Performance
The P4P + has a signal range of 7 kilometers (5 kilometers on the regular P4), which is much further than any normal user is willing to let it fly. It also has a larger battery of 5,870 mAh (compared to 5,350 mAh), giving you 30 minutes of flight time per charge (instead of 28), despite all additional sensors. It has internal flight sensors that operate at distances up to 30 meters away (instead of 15 meters), which gives it a very stable displacement, even where there is no GPS to tell you where to fix. It transmits both in 2.4GHz and 5.8GHz for better reliability of the Wi-Fi image (the normal P4 only used 2.4GHz).
In conclusion, one could say that this drone is within the professional segment of drones because of its features and level. Many people may throw it away today because it is not folding like other DJI models, but this drone has something that none of the others has: A 1-inch CMOS sensor camera that records 4K to 60 fps videos and captures 20 MP photos with mechanical shutter, which can get quality ranges beyond the already excellent DJI Mavic 2 ProAnd that's a lot to say. If what we want is image quality first of all, this is a drone very much to consider.
Technical specifications Aircraft
- Weight (battery and propellers included)
- 1375 g
- diagonal size (excluded propellers)
- 350 mm
- Max. speed. Promotion
- Mode S: 6 m/s
Mode P: 5 m/s - Max. speed. of descent
- Mode S: 4 m/s
Mode P: 3 m/s - Max. speed.
- Mode S: 72 km/h (45 mph)
Mode A: 58 km/h (36 mph)
Mode P: 50 km/h (31 mph) - Max angle of inclination.
- Mode S: 42o
Mode A: 35o
Mode P: 25° - Max angular velocity.
- Mode S: 250°/s
Mode P: 150°/s - Maximum height sea-level service
- 6000 m (19685 ft)
- Max. resistance to the wind
- 10 m/s
- Maximum time flight
- approx. 30 minutes
- Operating temperature range
- 0 to 40 °C (32 to 104 °F)
- Satellite positioning systems
- GPS/GLONASS
- Stationary flight accuracy range
- Vertical:
±0.1 m (with visual positioning)
±0.5 m (with GPS positioning)
Horizontal:
±0.3 m (with visual positioning)
±1.5 m (with GPS positioning)
Stabilizer
- Stabilization
- 3 axes (inclination, mov. vertical and rotation)
- Controllable interval
- Inclination: -90o to 30o
- Max angular velocity. controllable
- Inclination: 90o/s
- Angular vibration interval
- ±0.02°
Vision system
- Frontal visual system
Rear visual system
Lower visual system - Speed range
- ≤50 km/h (31 mph) at 2 m (6.6 ft) from the ground
- Range of altitude
- 0 - 10 m (0 - 33 ft)
- Operating range
- Obstacle detection range
- 0.7 - 30 m (2 - 98 ft)
- Field of vision (FOV)
- Front: 60o (Horizontal), ±27o (Vertical)
Rear: 60o (Horizontal), ±27o (Vertical)
Lower: 70o (front and back), 50o (left and right) - Frequency of detection
- Front: 10 Hz
Ass: 10 Hz
Lower: 20 Hz - Operating environment
- Surface with a defined pattern and adequate lighting (lux >15)
Infrared detection system
- 0.2 - 7 cm (0.6 - 23 ft)
- 70o (horizontal), ±10o (vertical)
- 10 Hz
- Surface with diffuse reflection and reflectivity >20 % (such as walls, trees, people, etc.)
Camera
- Sensor
- 1.2.3" CMOS
Effective pixels: 20 MP - Objective
- FOV 84° 8.8 mm / 24 mm (format equivalent to 35 mm) f/2.8 - f/11, focus at 1 m -
- ISO Range
- Video:
100 - 3200 (car)
100 - 6400 (manual)
Photo:
100 - 3200 (car)
100 - 12800 (manual) - Mechanical shutter speed
- 8-1/2000 s
- Electronic shutter speed
- 8-1/8000 s
- Image size
- 3:2 Image proportion: 5472×3648
4:3 Image proportion: 4864×3648
16:9 Image proportion: 5472×3078 - Video Image Size
- 4096×2160 (4096×2160 24/25/30/48/50p)
3840×2160 (3840×2160 24/25/30/48/50/60p)
2720×1530 (2720×1530 24/25/30/48/50/60p)
1920×1080 (1920×1080 24/25/30/48/50/60/120p)
1280×720 (1280×720 24/25/30/48/50/60/120p) - Photo modes
- Single shot
Shot in blast: 3/5/7/10/14 frames
Automatic fork exposure (ABS), 3/5 exposure forks at 0.7 EV bias
Range: 2/3/5/7/10/15/20/30/60 s - Video Modes
- H.265
C4K:4096×2160 24/25/30p @100Mbps
4K:3840×2160 24/25/30p @100Mbps
2.7K:2720×1530 24/25/30p @65Mbps
2.7K:2720×1530 48/50/60p @80Mbps
FHD:1920×1080 24/25/30p @50Mbps
FHD:1920×1080 48/50/60p @65Mbps
FHD:1920×1080 120p @100Mbps
HD:1280×720 24/25/30p @25Mbps
HD:1280×720 48/50/60p @35Mbps
HD:1280×720 120p @60MbpsH.264
C4K:4096×2160 24/25/30/48/50/60p @100Mbps
4K:3840×2160 24/25/30/48/50/60p @100Mbps
2.7K:2720×1530 24/25/30p @80Mbps
2.7K:2720×1530 48/50/60p @100Mbps
FHD:1920×1080 24/25/30p @60Mbps
FHD:1920×1080 48/50/60 @80Mbps
FHD:1920×1080 120p @100Mbps
HD:1280×720 24/25/30p @30Mbps
HD:1280×720 48/50/60p @45Mbps
HD:1280×720 120p @80Mbps - Max bit rate.
- 100 Mbps
- Supported file systems
- FAT32 (≤32 GB); exFAT (> 32 GB)
- Photo
- JPEG, DNG (RAW), JPEG+DNG
- Video
- MP4/MOV (AVC/H.264; HEVC/H.265)
- Supported SD cards
- microSD, Max. capacity: 128 GB
Writing speed ≥15MB/s, class 10 or UHS-1 required
Remote control
- Operating frequency
- 2400 - 2483 GHz and 5725 - 5850 GHz
- Transmission Distance Max
- 2400 - 2483 GHz, 5725 - 5850 GHz (no obstacles, no interference)FCC: 8000 m
EC: 5000 m
SRRC: 5000 m
MIC: 5000 m - Battery
- 6000 mAh LiPo 2S
- Transmitter power (PIRE)
- 2,400-2,483 GHz
FCC: 26 dBm
EC: 20 dBm
SRRC: 20 dBm
MIC: 17 dBm
5.725-5.850 GHz
FCC: 26 dBm
EC: 14 dBm
SRRC: 20 dBm
MIC: - - Operating current
- 1.2 V
- Video output port
- GL300K: HDMI
GL300L: USB - Support for mobile device
- GL300K: Built-in screen (5.5-inch, 1920x1080, 1000 cd/m, Android system, 4 GB RAM + 16 GB ROM)
GL300L: Tablets and smartphones:
Loader
- Voltage
- 17.4 V
- Nominal power
- 100 W
Smart Flight Battery
- Capacity
- 5870 mAh
- 15.2 V
- Battery type
- LiPo 4S
- Energy
- 89.2 Wh
- Net weight
- 468 g
- Load temperature range
- From 5 to 40 °C (from 41 to 104 °F)
- Max. load power
- 160 W
Application/live stream
- Mobile application
- DJI GO 4
- Frequency of operation of live retransmission
- 2.4 GHz ISM, 5.8 GHz ISM
- Quality of live retransmission
- 720P at 30 fps, 1080P at 30 fps
- Latency
- Phantom 4 Pro V2.0: 220 ms (depending on conditions and mobile phone)
Phantom 4 Pro V2.0: 160-180 ms
Pros and cons of this Drone
- Great flight stability, especially in tripod mode
- It has probably the best camera of a drone of these characteristics.
- Quality of the monitor incorporated into the remote control
- The portability, with respect to folding models, is a handicap against them
Conclusions
If we are professionals of the image and we want above all quality to be able to post-production the material that we film, and that we put it before portability, this is our drone. A drone with a camera that is in the top of DJI mounted cameras on their drones (excluding of course the interchangeable cameras of their more professional models such as Inspire or Matrice).
If image quality is above all for you and you cannot access the most professional drones economically, this is a very important option.
2026 update: the DJI Phantom 4 Pro today
This review dates from 2020. The updated DJI Phantom 4 Pro spec sheet covers specifications, real flight time and pros and cons (data checked 28 October 2026).
Mundo Drone rating (28 October 2026): 8.8/10 · Its mechanical shutter prevents distortion by recording moving objects or making maps, something that the modern electronic shutter does not achieve the same.