I have owned several Potensic Atom drones and they are excellent for the price. The app has lacked a key feature from the very start, though, and that is the ability to completely disable GPS position hold. This makes flying indoors extremely risky, at best. GPS positioning only partially works in a typical home or small building. That is, you'll likely get a position lock after a while, but the exact position inside the building will rarely be precise. Instead, the reported position will seem to move around inside the building as the signals from the GPS satellites bounce around. GPS systems calculate positions based on the exact arrival times of signals from their satellites in orbit, so even the smallest delay from a reflection off a metal window frame or refrigerator door will cause errors. Since the app won't allow you to "turn off" GPS position hold, the result is a seemingly normal indoor flight until the moment GPS gets a lock. Once the light turns green on the back of the drone, your friendly Atom drone appears to lose its mind as it tries to follow the wandering position reported by GPS. Maybe the Potensic developers didn't notice this behaviour in their steel-and-glass office building in Shenzhen, but anyone who tries to fly in a home or small building will experience a crash because of this problem sooner or later. The solution is simple: give us a setting in the app that allows GPS data to be excluded from the position hold algorithm.

This is my first drone and it’s awesome. It has many advanced features that are not even offered on more expensive drones. Why 2nd best, because DJI is the market leader and also 5 to 10 times more expensive. The Atom 3-axis gimbal was so easy to set up and to learn. My first flights were scary, but after a few more I had it down. It takes amazing photos and video. I love to just go out and fly. It’s so much fun. I’ve taken some amazing pictures. I can’t say enough good things about this drone. You have to just experience it yourself to understand. I haven’t had the need and hopefully I won’t need to contact customer support but feedback on them is generally very good. This drone is not a toy. I don’t recommend flying it in the house. Trust me on that point. Read the manual carefully and repeat several times before your first flight. It’ll pay off dividends. Enjoy and happy flying.

So my issue is here that the app disconnects from the phone when it’s plugged in. Quick fix is to while you’re flying it’s unplug and replug in again but the fact is that’s not prudent. It’s not an easy thing all the time while your aircraft is in flight. There needs to be a patch to fix the connection between the app and the phone. I use an iPhone 12 and it is still giving me problems

I love this drone! The Atom is the best mini alternative to the more expensive DJI Mini series. The app design is great and has a lot of nice features that are similar to those you see on professional drones. I do think that they should add more features like an automatic exposure lock in the app which makes it easier for the user to use the camera in the auto mode setting. Other features like an option to change operating frequency channels for heavy interference areas would be helpful, and a “Virtual RTH icon” that shows the home point location of on the image feed like the DJI Mini 4 Pro has would be amazing! It’s not necessary but it would be nice… Other than that it’s a pretty darn good app.