Official service support for DJI Phantom 4 drone ends this week

Maintenance and technical support are being suspended for one of the most iconic DJI drones. Come July 15, 2023, DJI will stop providing service support for Phantom 4, the product that revolutionized the consumer drone market.

The news is not really surprising, especially considering Phantom 4 was first unveiled in March 2016 and has not been in production since July 2017. Basically, its time had come… And let’s not forget that establishing overall product life cycles is a normal practice in tech companies.

DJI is no different. The drone maker conducts periodic assessments of its products and accessories to determine their end of production and date of service suspension. Here’s what the company has to say on the subject:

Because electronic products are affected by technological developments and changes in usage requirements, each generation of products has a fixed life cycle. To continuously provide you with premium products and service…