Potensic ATOM SE GPS Drone with 4K EIS Camera, Under 249g, 62 Mins Flight, 4KM FPV Transmission, Brushless Motor, Max Speed 16m/s, Auto Return, Lightweight and Foldable Drone for Adults Beginner

This is my first drone. I had $250 worth of Amazon gift cards that I had collected from Christmas and my 55th birthday and didn't need any golf stuff so i decided to look at drones. After 2 weeks of looking and reading reviews and watching a few videos, I decided to go with the Atom SE. It's a great drone. Very stable. Watch the many Youtube reviews of this drone and they are nothing but positive. I've had the drone for 3 weekends now and have flown it on 3 separate days. I had read the manual and watched a few tutorial videos before I flew it the first time. I flew it behind and over my house a few hundred feet above and beyond the house. It went perfect. Very easy to control and learn. The remote is awesome. I have a Pixel 7 Pro and it fits nice and snug even with a case on it. The batteries last quite a while, about 25 minutes on average. Today was the warmest day (45F) that I've flown it and the first time that the battery was warm enough to let me go into sport mode. Lots of fun flying around at 35 mph. The videos and pictures that I've captured thus far look a little bit better than the ones attached to Amazon reviews. I did have a close call today. My oldest son and his fiance were visiting and I was showing my son the drone controls while it was hovering about 50 feet off of the ground. My controller started flashing warnings about losing signal and then the drone started doing a death spiral shortly after that. It started moving towards the ground in a spiral fashion and I got control of it with an emergency stop when it was about two feet off the ground. It was then that I remembered the iPhone warnings that I had heard about in the reviews. They say to put iPhones in airplane mode when flying the drone due to interference. My son had his iPhone in his pocket while I was showing him the controls. I had him place it in airplane mode after that and started the drone back up and flew it for about 15 minutes without issue. Originally I purchased the 2 battery combo package but have since purchased the 3 battery charger with 1 additional battery. It's a great charger, easy to use and, fits nicely in the case. Speaking of the case, it's really nice and fits everything perfectly. Overall, I think this is a great drone for the money. I have no regrets in purchasing it. My drone weighs in at 248 grams with the battery in it according to my weight watchers scale. If you're in the US don't forget to do your TRUST training. I did mine through the Pilot Institute website and it was very easy to complete.

I have had the Potensic Atom SE drone now for over a month and have flown it every weekend, so now I feel I can post an honest review. This is reall a great drone. May not have all the bells and whistles of that other company, but it doesn't have the price tag either. This is my first drone with GPS and what a difference that makes. I also love the fact that if I'm ever in a panic situation I can just release the controller joysticks and the drone will immediately stop whatever it's doing and hover in place. That's saved me a few times already. It is very easy to fly, even for a novice flyer. The controller and app are easy to handle and understand. Very comfortable controller and I like how it holds your phone, very easy to read, and has a range of 4km (about 2 1/2 miles) but I'll never really know how far it can go since I have to keep the drone itself in sight the whole time while flying. The furthest I've flown it was about 3200ft (about .6 miles) and the only reason I could see it that far off is because it was at twilight on a cloudy day and I could see my anticollision strobe blinking. The drone is very easy to handle, very responsive, and FAST! In Sport mode I reached 35mph, per the app. The video quality is impressive during the day, not so much at night. Photos are OK for use online and smaller photographs, but as a photographer I would like to see a better camera where I can make small enlargements, but, again, you can't complain too much at this price point. It handles windy days pretty well and have had no problems with it there. The Follow Me, Waypoint, and Circle Flight works as should and the RTH feature is great. I've initiated it myself a few times and had it return on it's own because of low battery, all times landing within feet of the takeoff point. I get about 25 minutes of flight per battery charge which is decent. The manual is easy to understand (although you have to download it, no physical manual with purchase) and the Customer Service has been GREAT. Had some concerns about the way my drone was packaged and they got back to me almost immediately and help solve my problem. Overall, I highly recommend this drone and you get alot for the price. I LOVE FLYING THIS THING! The ONLY regret I have in purchasing this is that I purchased it off of Amazon - nothing against Amazon, I love them too - but I wish I had gone directly to the Potensic website and seen the new and improved Atom drone and I would have definitley purchased that instead. At the time it was not available on Amazon (is now though) and is not that all more expensive than the SE. Update 11/22/2023 I mentioned in my review a few weeks back that I had a good experience with the Potensic Customer Service department and I had another great experience dealing with them again. Unfortunately, I had an accident with a tree and broke off my front right landing gear (the arm was fine) and couldn't find all the pieces. I emailed the customer service site and told them what happened and sent pictures and they got back to me within a day. They said it was repairable and gave me a price, plus gave me the option of purchasing a replacement Atom SE for a discounted price (BIG discount). After thinking about it I just went about fixing it myself with an old credit card, toothpick, and epoxy - think Frankenstein, but it flies no problem. I was tempted to take them up on their offer for the new SE, but would rather fix this one and save for an upgraded drone. When they asked what I'd like to do and told them I fixed it myself they were almost apologetic that I crashed my drone and offered to send me a new set of paddles. If that's not great customer service, I'm not sure what is. An overall great experience.

High quality, easy to fly, easy to use, very good durability and for a mini drone this thing will fly through about any wind you would reasonably want to fly in. Camera quality is great, easy to take pictures, shoot video and stability is there for either. The amount of fly time is legit but you'll want the extra batteries. Overall I rate this purchase an A+ five star all day long.

So far, so good. Flys pretty good, can go pretty fast...and is super stable, for videos and all. and it doesn't appear to lag at all, which is great💯. 2 issues I do have, 1 in particular to my drone. And the other, for the Atom SE drone in general. For other buyers, and the drone in general, there no zoom feature. No "standard" zoom at least. Which you figure most all cameras come with. And a key feature I like and need. But you can adjust the frame speed, and kind of get a closer shot...nit the same, or near as good, as being able to zoom, IMO. But as good as this drone is, still worth it, again, IMO. But as for my drone in particular, My front, right motor, has a very distinct clicking, kind of ratcheting sound/feel when slowly spinning, testing and checking the propellers and motors. But if I twirl it fast, it gets smooth. And obviously seems to fly well. I don't think there is an issue with it. But I learned the hard way, to speak up. When you buy expensive equipment, tools, tech and gadgets...a little problem at the start, can turn big, if not catastrophic. If not caught, brought up and addressed, fixed, replaced, made right... especially again, when such matters concern any significant amount of $. At least we can only hope😌💯.

The Potensic ATOM SE was highly rated on YouTube so I purchased one for my birthday. It arrived the next day. I followed all the instructions and after I pressed the launch button I knew this drone was the one Ive been looking for. It hovered 5 feet above the launch pad and was perfectly steady even though winds were 7-10 mph. I was surprised to see that it was connected to 24 satellites. I hit record and flew for 20 minutes. Even though it was my first flight, I wasn't nervous because of the safety features. If the battery was too low or if I lost signal it automatically returns to the spot where it was launched. I didnt want to go too far on the first flight so once I reached one mile out, I hit the return home button. The drone elevated to the 200 foot setting then it flew back over my head and landed without my help, 18 inches from the launch pad. This drone is so steady and easy to fly. I am a novice and I had no problems flying. I have only flown one other cheap drone once or twice and I just got tired of running after it. This drone with the remote that connects to any phone is so easy to use. I am so pleased with this drone, I bought one for my son and after I let my two best friends fly it, both have ordered one. The flight time, distance, steadiness and safety features are well worth the cost of this drone. Then you add the 4K video quality and the choice is easy. I love the waypoints feature because I have property for hunting and fishing. I pick 4 or 5 green fields (deer plots) from the GPS map and the drone flies to each spot while I watch and record the deer and turkey. The drone doesnt seem to bother the deer unless it is 50 feet or less from the ground. The drone is also used to identify trespassers. I can fly the drone to where I hear ATVS or gunshots and take a high resolution photo of the trespasser or vehicle or license plate. I could keep signing this products praises but I am about to go flying. Do yourself a favor and try the Potensic ATOM SE. You will be glad you did.

This has been a great entry-level drone for me to learn on. Flying it is a learning experience, I'd say it's definitely not something for little kids. But its ability to return to home is very accurate and while the advertised range would depend on where you fly it, I'm impressed with how far I can go with it, given the sub-optimal geography around me. Waypoint flight feature works well, too. And I haven't experienced any unstable flight issues, I was concerned it might do unexpected things or fly off to parts unknown but so far it's been good. The image quality is good, too. The single axis gimbal on the camera means the picture is going to tilt when you bank/turn the drone, but that wasn't that important to me, I just like playing around with the thing and would have had to pay a lot more for something with a multi-axis camera. I didn't want to invest too much as a beginner since I could have very likely lost the whole drone or crashed it, so this was just the thing for me. Haven't wrecked it yet. I also used it to check my 2nd story gutters, worked perfectly and saved me the trouble of climbing up on the roof since I could clearly see they were not full of leaves and stuff. Not climbing up there a couple times a year and risking a fall only to find there were no clogs anyway, is worth the price of the unit alone to me.

UPDATE: 5/15/2025: Today I discovered that if you don't use the drone for a couple of months the batteries will lose their charge, but surprisingly *not* the remote controller. Another disappointment is when recording video (or even snapping a picture) the drone does not include telemetry data on the video (i.e. - date/time; altitude; direction; speed; etc). I've searched the owners manual pdf file but have not yet discovered if this feature exists and, if it does, how to enable it as I think it would be nice to have the telemetry data on the video. Other than that I'm still quite pleased with this drone. ORIGINAL REVIEW 3/10/2025: Got interested in drones and thought I'd finally give it a go. Settled on this one. Good quality workmanship. Drone has a microSD card slot and will take a 256Gig card. Comes with a spare set of propeller blades, screws and tiny Phillips screw driver. Two batteries delivering a total of 60 minutes flight time. (30 mins per battery) Good quality carry case as well. Comes with three different connecting cables depending on what phone you have to connect your phone to the remote control. The instructions are easy to follow and includes pictures. My first time testing was indoors to get a feel for the controls. Everything seemed OK so outside I went. Drone is easy to control. Left joystick handles up/down/turn left/turn right while the right joystick is for going forward/backward/left/right. BTW, NEVER fly the drone backwards as you can easy hit a tree (Been there, did that, used my neighbors pickup to put my extension ladder in the bed to give me 4 extra feet in height so I was able to get my drone out of the tree!! Yes, that was an "Oops" moment. LOL) This goes back to the quality of the drone as nothing broke. Drone was in perfect working condition. Another feature I like is if the battery gets low then the drone software will automatically perform RTB and climbs to ~193 feet and comes right back to where it took off. I've already taken pictures and video; at 4K the picture quality is superb. My only con is the drone doesn't put a date/time stamp on the pictures or videos so you cannot tell when it was taken/recorded. If anyone knows if that can be done then please let me know. Finally, I've added two pictures of right after I unboxed the drone and another picture taken during the flight. Controls are easy to use with only a little learning curve (like, how to avoid trees LOL). I definitely recommend this drone.

Warning, When you buy this you are not warned that this is under a new return policy if you should chose to return it. They will hold your money for up to thirty days or until they decide to take it off the container it is placed in when it hits their dock. This is not covered under their return when it is picked up by the carrier policy of pretty much everything else. They are apparently putting many items if not all over $100 or so ( I don't know the actual amount, they would not tell me) under this new wait for your money back policy. The drone was good in the wind and even for most of its flight characteristics. The GPS functions and such are all pretty nice for a basic set.This drone is ok for the price if you are aware of the limitations of the camera system and some issues with phones and DJI mics effecting the range of the drone. Not using that mic and switching your phone into airplane mode can help. More below. It can provide good pictures, if you have enough light and are willing to post process them to get the horizon back to level. There are only two directions you are getting a level horizon, straight into or out of the wind or breeze. That is the main drawback of the 2 axis gimbal. If you are okay with sideways pics your are good to go unless you run into the cameras other big issue, low light or high contrast will effect what I think is the electronic stabilization in a bad way. The picture may look good until you look at detail, then where you have contrast you may have a good view of the top of a building but a side in the shadows is blurred clear out and in such contrast to the clear parts the picture looks like a photoshop workup. I had to re-calibrate the compass on every battery even from the same spot. If you do not calibrate it then this drone will start doing the toilet bowl self destruct procedure. For you new dronies that means the drone will start looping in an ever increasing circle wider and faster until it loses control and crashes into something and essentially self destructs. The manual claims you only have to calibrate the compass once or if you move to another location about 50KM away from the last calibration point. This is something you should only have to do with a sub $50 drone in the first place but this one was requiring it every new flight after the first day.. I was having some interference lines go through the video at just 50 feet on a few occasions, they were becoming more common by 800ft. This was out in the country not anywhere near anything that should cause interference. It is well known now this thing does not get along well with your phones that are required for video. The range and video transmission can be destroyed by using a specific DJI mic near you when flying, This has effected many social media reviewers and some don't yet know this is causing their distance issues. Another thing that will help is only flying in airplane mode on your phone. I would love to try the new 3 Axis version of the Atom but it was not available on here when I ordered a mini 3 instead and now that it in stock is my money is still being held hostage so its not likely to happen any time soon. Since I bought the DJI mini3 in the mean time I am finding out they are not near as good at meeting their posted specs either but I would love to try the Atom 3X for a head to head vs the Mini 3 vs the value.