DJI’s new Osmo Mobile 7 Pro has so very many tricks up its sleeve

Personally, I can’t ideate utilizing my smartphone arsenic a babe steadicam anymore now that I person DJI’s Osmo Pocket 3 — we saw it everywhere astatine CES 2025, and its one-inch-type sensor offers image value beyond what today’s smartphones allow.

But if you for illustration the thought of sticking your telephone into a group of stabilized motors connected a stick, DJI’s just-announced $149 Osmo Mobile 7 Pro is the astir feature-packed rotation connected the thought I’ve ever touched.

Now you tin plop your selfie-stick down onto a aboveground pinch a caller built-in tripod, propulsion 8 inches of telescoping limb retired of the apical to springiness it reach, past threat connected a caller “Multifunctional Module” pinch a built-in machine imagination camera to automatically way you, commencement and extremity filming, and set framing, conscionable by gesturing pinch your hands.

The Multifunctional Module unlocks different neat tricks too: it’s sewage a built-in capable ray pinch adjustable colour somesthesia that you tin move connected by holding down the OM7 Pro’s broadside dial, and it’s a receiver for DJI’s fantabulous wireless microphones, including the DJI Mic Mini. It gets wirelessly powered correct done DJI’s smartphone clamp acknowledgment to a group of spring-loaded pogo pins, and you tin connect it facing either guidance if you want the assistance for your phone’s selfie camera.

Perhaps astir importantly, the module could dramatically trim your request to usage DJI’s app for filming. Previous gimbals required it for tracking, but historically it’s not ever played bully pinch the newest camera features that smartphone makers offer. Now you tin usage your phone’s built-in camera app and still person it travel you autonomously. (DJI says its ain Mimo app does now play nicer pinch the multi-lens switching, 4K60 signaling and physics image stabilization connected much Android phones, but it’s much futureproof this way.)

The module’s search decidedly useful successful my early tests, though the Multifunctional Module does get a spot basking — arsenic it warns correct connected the module’s side. It’s besides a spot of a artillery drain. While DJI has upsized the artillery to 12.06 watt-hours and quotes an upgraded 10 hours of artillery life, the module cuts it successful half to 5 hours pinch tracking, aliases 4 hours pinch search and the capable ray on. (The Osmo Mobile 6’s 7.74Wh battalion promised up to 6.5 hours, for comparison.)

I besides for illustration that the Osmo Mobile 7P still has a 1/4-inch tripod screw spread successful summation to its built-in tripod, truthful you tin equine it to different things, and you tin still apical up your telephone from its USB-C port. I’m particularly pleased to opportunity that DJI will commencement trading a magnetic quick-release adapter truthful you tin plop phones straight onto the gimbal alternatively of having to agelong isolated a clamp — though that adapter won’t beryllium compatible pinch the Multifunctional Module, and dissimilar that module, it won’t mostly travel successful the box.

As acold arsenic I’m concerned, DJI’s ain Osmo Pocket 3 sucked the aerial retired of the room for smartphone gimbals, isolated from successful those cases wherever it’s easier to warrant the $150 acquisition for an existing telephone instead of dropping $520 for amended quality aliases because your iPhone workflow demands it. But I person to admit I’m suspicious of the Osmo Mobile’s caller tricks. Maybe DJI could make an Osmo Pocket 4 pinch a telescoping gimbal, pop-out tripod, and manus gestures?

The Pocket 3 ditched astir of the Pocket and Pocket 2’s modular parts, proving that modularity wasn’t that merchandise line’s existent superpower, and I don’t deliberation pocketability is needfully it either. I deliberation it’s having an ultra-steady camera that’s amended and much versatile than today’s phones while still fitting into a enarthrosis bag, and I’d invited moreover much of that versatility.

In summation to the $149 Osmo Mobile 7P, the company’s besides announcing a caller fund $89 Osmo Mobile 7 that comes successful achromatic alternatively than black. It besides has the pull-out tripod, but ditches the telescoping selfie-stick, doesn’t travel pinch the Multifunctional Module successful the box, and doesn’t person the broadside dial to easy move connected the capable ray and set attraction aliases zoom.