Find the Right Syma Drone Model for you, our top picks.

The Syma X500 is the drone for you if you are looking to get into more serious aerial photography. At 250g this light weight drone doesn’t need to be registered with the FAA. It comes with all these great features: Headless Mode, Altitude Mode and One Key to Take-off / Land functions make it so easy to operate.

It also has three ways to quickly and safely get your drone back it automatically returns home if the battery is low, the signal is lost, or you press the return home button. The 2.4GHz transmitter reaches to 10000 feet high range giving you many options for aerial videos.

It has a tracking device where hand gestures can signal selfie photos. Thanks to a 120 degree wide angle and a 90 degree vertical gimbal the 4K UHD Camera can take stunning photos and video.

Syma X300 Foldable Drone with Camera is an affordable, very good aerial photography drone. This replaces our Syma X8HG review. The camera is HD and takes 1080P videos. The 6 axis gyro helps to give you a nice stable platform and it has an anti-vibration camera mount. The ground station transmitter can control it up to about 70 meters (depending on terrain and weather).

It has helpful features such as altitude hold, headless mode and a two flight speeds (high and low) for a beginner drone pilot. The X300 also comes with 2 batteries to extend your flying time from 20 minutes to 40 minutes.

Syma X300 foldable is an indoor and outdoor drone that can easily be folded up to fit in a backpack for hiking. It can do 3D flips, forward/backward, up/down. Left/right sideways flight and it has illuminating LED light for dim flying conditions.

Syma X20 Mini Pocket Drone RC Quadcopter is an affordable drone under $50 and a great way a drone that is easy to fly.

The headless mode allows the flight to continue with the fuselage in any direction the aids the beginning flyer. The one button take-off also has the novice done flyer in mind. It has a flight time of 5 minutes.

LED light enables you to fly in dim lighting or at night. The one button 360 degree roll button allows the beginner to do 3D stunts (yes, it can do 360 flip).

SYMA X5C-1 Explorers 2.4G 4CH 6-Axis Quadcopter with HD Camera is big enough that it can be taken outside to fly. If you are looking for a tech gift under $100, this Syma is a fun quadcopter for any kid who enjoys flying outdoors.

It has flight time about 18 minutes thanks to the 2 extra MysteryStone batteries. It has blinking LED lights to help to keep it in sight.

It’s 720P camera camera supports FPV and takes both pictures and video. This drone is fairly simple fly and comes with moves such as left/right, forward/backward, up/down, 360 flip and roll, sideways fight. The SYMA X5C-1 Explorer is also small enough that it can be flown in a large room indoors.

The X5C also has some unexpected pluses. It comes with lots of spare parts for repairs and even comes with the SD card. Most drones have you purchase the SD card seperately.

Even though this drone doesn’t have the more modern folding design the X5C Explorer quadcopter makes for a great drone to learn on and allows you do perform flying stunts as well as take Aerial photos

Syma X21W Mini RC Drone with Camera Live Video is one the very best quadcopters to learn on. We used to recommend the Syma X5SW Syma X5SW but it is no longer available. The Syma X21W is light weight enough so that you can practice indoors without doing a lot of damage. It comes with spare parts for the components that a beginner is most likely to break.

It has 4CH flight controller with 6 Axis, 0.3 MP 720P camera, Ready to fly (just attach and tighten props). The right-hand controller can be configured for left hand throttle. Controller range is about 70 Meters. Flight time is about 6-8 minutes. It has a plastic body which is designed to be shatter resistant, another good feature for a beginner.

The FPV camera gives the experience of looking out the front of the quadcopter’s nose. Since you can record the view, you can show it off later, too. This quadcopter will be a fairly inexpensive way to begin learning to be a drone pilot and is one of several great drones for adults.

The Syma X400 is a nice all around entry drone that is easy to control and has a camera with FPV. You have the choice to control the drone from the controller or the Syma App.

The flight time is a little short on this with approximately a 6 minute flight time with 1 battery. If you can purchase a second battery you can at least get 12 minutes of flight time.

Headless Mode, Altitude Mode and One Key start and stop functions functions make it so easy to operate. It also comes with a 3D flip capability. All these features plus the flashing lights that warn the pilot of a low battery make this an easy to operate drone.

The camera is a 720p high definition camera/video. While not the best out there it does give the beginning drone enthusiast the ability to do photos and video while they hone their piloting skills.