Our New Insta360 X4 Has Unreal 4K Battery Life
Insta360 X4 First Impression – Impressive Battery Life
I legit thought I was mistaken, or that it didn’t record properly. But no; it did!
I’m going to let you in on a little secret, reviewing things might seem like it’s all fun and games, but there’s a lot of consideration that goes into information gathering to craft your impressions of the item that you’re reviewing.
Don’t get me wrong; I’m not saying in any way that it’s not fun. It absolutely is. However, as a person reviewing things for other people to hopefully benefit from, you need to take multiple points of view into account.
You need to not only be able to talk about the relevant parts of yourself and how you, specifically, are using The Thing; you also need to be able to think about how other people might use it, and what they might love/hate/have questions about.
So with all that in mind, RideApart is currently in the process of reviewing Insta360’s new X4 camera, a review will be coming in the not-too-distant future. However, please note that this is NOT that review.
Instead, this is a rather astonished report of the X4’s battery life after the first time I used it out on a ride.
One other major difference between the X2 and the X4 that I should note here is that the X4 gets a LOT hotter to the touch than the X2. If you’re out riding and moving and there’s tons of air rushing past it, hopefully that mitigates the potential for overheating issues.
I can’t say for sure whether it does at this point, since I’ve literally only been out on one long ride with it so far. But rest assured, I’ll be reporting back on my findings as I test the thing. Watch this space.
For the time being, color me incredibly impressed with the improved battery life. Which brings me to the elephant in the room: Why is GoPro currently going after Insta360 with the ITC? The official reasons given on paper are claims of patent infringement, and currently Insta360 has a certain amount of time to file an official response to the complaint with the ITC.
We obviously can’t speculate on GoPro’s motivations. But we can say that innovation, implementation, and iteration like Insta360’s sure seem like things that you would, speaking in purely hypothetical terms, want to put a stop to in any possible way if you happened to be a competing action camera maker.