Sony will discontinue its expensive Airpeak S1 digital camera drone in March

Sony announced that it’s going to cease promoting the Airpeak S1 digital camera drone. Gross sales of the product will finish on March 31, 2025. Sony will even cease promoting a lot of the drone’s equipment subsequent 12 months, however substitute batteries and propellers will likely be obtainable till March 31, 2026. Inspections, repairs and software program upkeep will proceed by means of March 31, 2030.

The Airpeak S1 was initially introduced throughout a digital presentation at CES in 2021. The drone was meant to seize high-definition footage with Sony’s full-frame mirrorless interchangeable-lens Alpha cameras. It might fly for 12 minutes with a digital camera hooked up and achieved a max flight velocity of 55.9mph. Whereas the high-end drone would set consumers again about $9,000 even earlier than shopping for equipment, it had middling to flat-out negative critiques.