Osmo Mobile 7P In-Depth Review: DJI's New Smartphone Gimbal, Empowering Everyone to Create Stunning Videos

Osmo Mobile 7P In-Depth Review: DJI's New Smartphone Gimbal, Empowering Everyone to Create Stunning VideosThe Osmo Mobile 7P and Osmo Mobile 7 differ in color, adopting dark rock gray and gray-white respectively. This color distinction aligns with DJI's consistent design philosophy: more professional models typically use darker colors (like black and gray), while user-friendly options lean towards lighter shades

Osmo Mobile 7P In-Depth Review: DJI's New Smartphone Gimbal, Empowering Everyone to Create Stunning Videos

DJI's Osmo Mobile series of smartphone stabilizers has always been a favorite among users, praised for its lightweight, portable design and powerful tracking capabilities. Now, the Osmo Mobile series welcomes a significant upgrade with the launch of the Osmo Mobile 7 series, comprising the Osmo Mobile 7P and Osmo Mobile 7. The Osmo Mobile 7P, as the flagship model, builds upon the excellent qualities of its predecessors while adding numerous exciting new features, significantly enhancing the user experience. This review will delve into the Osmo Mobile 7P, examining its design, functionality, and overall experience to showcase the power of this smartphone gimbal.

I. Design: Exquisite Design, Comprehensive Feature Upgrade

The Osmo Mobile 7P and Osmo Mobile 7 differ in color, adopting dark rock gray and gray-white respectively. This color distinction aligns with DJI's consistent design philosophy: more professional models typically use darker colors (like black and gray), while user-friendly options lean towards lighter shades.

The Osmo Mobile 7P maintains a compact folded size similar to its predecessor, ensuring excellent portability. The folding clasp utilizes durable metal, guaranteeing stability and reliability. Notably, the Osmo Mobile 7P automatically powers on when unfolded and automatically folds back into its compact state when powered offsmall details that significantly improve ease of use.

The Osmo Mobile 7P is compatible with most mainstream smartphones, supporting a weight range of 170 grams to 300 grams, easily handling even heavier foldable phones. Its compatibility with phone widths ranges from 67mm to 84mm and thicknesses from 6.9mm to 10mm, consistent with its predecessor.

The phone clamp employs a fourth-generation magnetic design, making installation and removal incredibly convenient; no need to turn off the gimbal. Because of the tracking module, the Osmo Mobile 7P's phone clamp has four additional contact points on the back and side compared to the Osmo Mobile 7. However, for users who don't need the tracking module daily, DJI thoughtfully provides a simpler magnetic quick-release back clamp. Simply connect your phone via MagSafe for quick shooting, eliminating cumbersome clamping steps.

The Osmo Mobile 7P's base features an innovative hidden tripod design with a pull-out mechanism, allowing users to easily secure the device for fixed shots or selfies. Additionally, users can attach a standard 1/4-inch threaded tripod for extended height. Coupled with the top extension arm (up to 215mm), the Osmo Mobile 7P can satisfy most shooting height requirements.

Regarding the control area, the Osmo Mobile 7P inherits the advantages of its predecessor's button layout. Through the M button, joystick, switch button, shutter button, side dial, and rear trigger, users can easily perform various operations. A small screen clearly displays crucial information such as gimbal shooting status, battery level, and modes. The side dial adjusts focus and zoom; the M button switches between four gimbal modes and powers the device on/off; the joystick controls the camera direction; and the switch button toggles between landscape and portrait modes.

The multifunctional tracking module is a significant highlight of the Osmo Mobile 7P. It cleverly integrates the fill light from the previous generation's magnetic phone clamp and adds third-party app and native camera intelligent tracking, as well as a microphone receiver functionality, achieving integrated fill light, sound recording, and native tracking. The combination of the Osmo Mobile 7P and the multifunctional tracking module allows users to easily achieve professional native tracking; the entire setup resembles a complete single-person vlogging kit.

The tracking module connects to the fourth-generation magnetic phone clamp via magnetic contact points on the side and includes a locking latch to ensure a secure connection and prevent detachment. The tracking module features a power switch, color temperature adjustment/microphone pairing button, and a USB-C port for connecting a microphone; it's also compatible with USB-C to Lightning cables for older iPhones.

II. Experience: Intelligent Tracking, Effortless Creation

The Osmo Mobile 7P aims to make using a smartphone gimbal effortless. It incorporates numerous user-friendly designs, lowering the barrier to entry for shooting.

The Osmo Mobile 7P uses three-axis stabilization technology. Its added pan axis allows the rear camera to rotate from the front to the back. By pressing the trigger button three times consecutively, the gimbal and phone can rotate 180 degrees, facilitating switching camera perspectives. This is particularly useful in group selfies, leveraging the advantages of the rear camera.

DJI Mimo's intelligent tracking technology has been upgraded to version 7.0, making tracking in multi-person scenarios more accurate. Whether users employ default center-frame tracking or custom composition, the system firmly locks onto the subject, ensuring it remains centered and preventing switching. When shooting children or pets, the system can agilely follow their movements and adjust the tracking method according to their size changes, precisely capturing the pet's dynamics. Activating intelligent tracking is intuitive; once Mimo detects a face, a white box appears; clicking the box quickly selects the tracking target and switches tracking targets.

With the tracking module, users can use the native camera directly without connecting the Mimo app, and can also achieve intelligent tracking during live streaming, video conferencing, and voice calls. It supports gesture-based intelligent triggering for tracking, shooting, and composition: five fingers activate tracking, a V-shaped gesture triggers shooting or pausing, and a vertical eight-shaped gesture triggers intelligent composition.

Double-clicking the switch button quickly switches between landscape and portrait modes. Combined with the 180 front-and-rear switching function of the rear camera, it meets diverse compositional shooting needs. The tracking module's fill light supports four color temperature levels and four brightness levels, satisfying fill light needs in low-light environments like nighttime or rainy days. It's worth mentioning that users can trigger the fill light control via the side dial (long-press the dial to activate the function), enabling smooth adjustment of brightness and color temperature.

The multifunctional tracking module incorporates a sound receiver. When connected to the phone via a Type-C cable, it can directly connect to the DJI Mic Mini transmitter for sound recording. This is particularly useful when shooting vlogs, ensuring synchronized audio and video with clear sound, eliminating the tedious steps of post-production dubbing.

To reduce the learning curve, the DJI Mimo app provides detailed shooting guidance, intelligently recognizing scenes and offering users rich shooting and shot references, making it easy for even beginners to use. For example, in selfie mode, the smartphone gimbal automatically recognizes faces and automatically follows within the gimbal's movement range, simultaneously activating beautification mode to enhance the user experience.

The Mimo app also offers various creative features, such as the "Hitchcock" zoom (dynamic zoom). Simply choose whether the background should move closer or farther, and the gimbal automatically completes the shot and generates a finished video clip. After shooting, users can easily auto-edit and share to social media within the Mimo app.

The new Mimo app improves compatibility with Android phones, supporting 4K/60fps shooting on more phones to maximize the performance of the phone's native camera.

The Osmo Mobile 7P's battery life is approximately 10 hours. In live streaming scenarios, a power bank can be used in conjunction with the gimbal, multifunctional tracking module, and phone to effectively address phone battery anxiety. In outdoor scenarios, users can charge their phones via the gimbal's USB-C port when the gimbal is idle (activate charging by double-clicking the M button).

III. Conclusion: More Than a Smartphone Gimbal, a Creation Tool

The Osmo Mobile 7P is not just a smartphone gimbal; it's a complete system designed around content creation. From power on/off and camera direction switching to connectivity, sound recording, fill light, and tracking, every aspect aims to simplify the workflow and improve shooting efficiency. Even inexperienced beginners can easily use the Osmo Mobile 7P to capture emotionally resonant footage, recording life's precious moments. Its powerful features, convenient operation, and thoughtful design make it an ideal choice for creating videos.