Initially, I was going to tell you about a good deal happening on the DJI Osmo Pocket 3, which is down from the $500 it’s sold at most of the year to $378 at multiple retailers. But there’s a better deal happening on a nearly identical portable camera, the Xtra Muse, which is $329 (roughly $100 off what it sold for three months ago). It’s not just some copycat; my colleague Sean Hollister’s report on the company is linked below, wherein he said the Muse “appears to be the same product in almost every palpable way,” though DJI won’t comment on its involvement with Xtra.
Regardless, you can save a good bit of change on the Muse right now at Amazon. It seems great for vlogging (Sean uses the DJI Osmo Pocket 3 for recording Today I’m Toying with videos), or for any scenario where you want better footage than your smartphone can likely capture.
At launch, the Muse couldn’t connect to Bluetooth mics, which meant that DJI’s own wireless mics were off the table. But as of a February firmware update, it can wirelessly connect to various mics, including DJI’s Mic 2, Mini Mini and the Mic 3, among others.
