Insta360 Air is now available on Amazon ($129)! With today’s announcement of realtime image stabilization, this will sell out quickly…
Insta360 Air is a 360 camera accessory for Android phones (here are my first impressions). Here again are the key specifications:
– Photo resolution: 3008 x 1504
– Video resolution: 2560 x 1280 @ 30 fps for most Android phones; 3008 x 1504 @ 30 fps for “high-end” phones such as Samsung S7 and Huawei P9
– realtime stitching
– wireless livestreaming
– available for Micro USB or USB Type-C
It had a very successful Indiegogo campaign that raised 12 times their campaign goal AND delivered the product on time (in fact, ahead of schedule for some users).
For a list of compatible and incompatible Android phones, see here:
From Insta360’s page:
“These devices have been tested to be incompatible:
Xiaomi(Mi): 4c/note
HUAWEI: mate7/Glory 7i
GOOGLE: 5
MEIZU: MX5
vivo: x7
Nubia: Z9 mini/Z7 max/Z7 mini
ONEPLUS: ONEPLUS1
Smartisan: U1
Minimum configuration requirements:
1.Supports OTG
2.Android 5.1 or above
3.System on Chip(SOC):
Qualcomm: 600 Series or 800 Series
MTK: Helio X10, X20, X25, X30 Series
Exynos: 7410, 8890
Huawei Kirin: Kirin9xx Series
4.RAM: 2G or above”
Love the blog! I bought this (on B&H) based on seeing it here, and the livestreaming is fantastic. The camera is relatively low-end otherwise, but it's small, inexpensive, and has some nice tricks up its sleeve. FWIW, a Pixel XL only does 2560 x 1280 video, so the group allowed higher resolution must be quite limited indeed. If someone could only buy one camera in this price range, I still recommend the LG 360, which I think is a fantastic value and extremely pocketable, but for livestreaming on Android, this is the only game in town. Cute, functional, well-built, and inexpensive.