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To help out my fellow drone enthusiasts, I would like to share my observations and experience with two different Holystone drones. I am a new drone enthusiast. First I played around with some small indoor drones. Then I did some research on the internet for a good quality and reasonably priced drone. First I chose and purchased Holystone HS100 drone. It is a pretty nice drone for a beginner. I really enjoyed playing with it. I could fly it high and above and take photos and videos. HS100 is a nice drone with a few limitations. The camera that the drone came installed with, was a 720p. So sometimes the picture quality was a bit blurry. I communicated with Holystone customer service. Holystone has a very good customer service and I worked with Libby. Libby is a friendly, cooperative and a great customer service representative. Libby helped me buy a 1080p camera for the HS100 drone. Installation was not difficult. I liked the quality of the videos and photos from this new 1080p camera. Then I wanted to graduate into bit higher quality drone with little more capabilities. I again did some research and I chose Holystone HS700. Once again, Libby at Holystone was very helpful in the process. Following are my observations and reviews on this great little drone (HS700). HS700 is sleek little drone. I got a white one instead of the black. This drone looks and feels great. It came with a sleek into remote control. Right out of the box, the propellers were very easy to install as you just screw them in. The camera and the landing gears were equally easy to install. Here are some of the features I really like about my new HS700 drone: 1. HS700 came with a High Definition 1080p camera and it takes great photos and videos. 2. It has a little more powerful (2800 mAh) Lithium ion battery. So you can fly for about 20 minutes in one charge. 3. The transmitter has a range of 3280 feet. Which means you can fly and control the drone at more than half a mile away (.62 mile to be exact). This is really nice. 4. It has a one touch Takeoff and Landing button. 5. The drone is equipped with GPS technology. So at all times the drone knows its location and when pressed the Return-to-Home (RTH) button, the drone can automatically return to its original takeoff location. 6. The drone has a one-press failsafe Return-to-Home button. So if you think you are flying the drone too close to a building or a tree, or it has gotten too far away, instead of using joystick control to figure out which way to turn to bring it back, just press the RTH button and the drone straightaway starts to fly back to its original takeoff location. 7. This drone does not have an obstacle avoidance technology. So in order to avoid running into any buildings or trees on its return flight, as soon as you press the RTH button, the drone immediately goes higher, so that it can avoid any of those objects on its way back. Then it flies back and hover over the takeoff location and then slowly descends to the spot. I like this nice feature. 8. HS700 has a Headless mode feature, so you have more control over which direction you want to fly the drone, instead of flying forward, backward, left or right. 9. This drone has an interesting feature, where if the battery power goes down to 1 or 2 bars, which you can monitor on the remote control, the drone will automatically start to fly back to the original takeoff location from where it took off. This is also a nice feature. 10. This drone has a Follow-me button. Once you switch it on, the drone will follow you from a safe distance. 11. From the App on the phone, you can press a button to have the drone circle around you at a height you choose. You can record videos from the camera as it circles around you and the camera will focus on you (in fact the camera will point towards the remote in your hand) as it circle around you. You can increase or decrease the radius of the flight from within the App. So, as you can tell, this is a sleek looking nice drone with lots of nice features that I like. I really like my HS700 drone. Hope this review is helpful to all of you in your decision making process.