DJI Lito 1 and X1: From a Leg to the Full Picture

Last time we covered the DJI Lito, the entire conversation rested on FCC filings and a single photo of a drone landing leg.

The internet had theories. The leg had no comment. Now we have actual images of both drones, and the community has a lot more to argue about.

The Images That Change the Conversation

Leaker Igor Bogdanov, who goes by @Quadro_News on X, has shared what appear to be render-quality images of both the DJI Lito 1 and the DJI Lito X1. The drones show up clearly: compact foldable quadcopters with a front-mounted camera gimbal, orange-tipped propellers, and obstacle sensing hardware visible on the body. The Lito 1 looks like the more minimal of the two. From my eyes, they looked exactly the same and I will need more pictures to spot the differences.

These are not official DJI renders. DJI hasn’t confirmed anything about the Lito series beyond the FCC filings we reported in January. But the images are consistent with everything the regulatory documents pointed toward, and they come from a source with a solid track record on DJI leaks.

The other new data point is the RC2 controller. Early reports from the community indicate the Lito 1 and Lito X1 have appeared inside the DJI RC2’s software, listed as supported aircraft. If confirmed, that would slot the Lito series directly into DJI’s existing controller ecosystem, which tells you something about where DJI intends to position these drones.

What the Leaks Still Say

None of the spec rumors have changed, and none of them have been confirmed either. The Lito 1 is still widely reported as targeting the Mini 4K’s market segment, with around 22GB of internal storage and a rumored price in the neighborhood of $330.

The Lito X1 is reported to carry roughly 42GB of storage and a rumored price of around $759, putting it closer to current Mini Pro territory.

The transmission speculation around the Lito X1 continues to center on the “SDR Transceiver 2” language in the FCC filings, which some sources are reading as a potential O5-class system with 5G cellular capability. That remains firmly unconfirmed.

What the filings do confirm is multi-band connectivity across 2.4 GHz, 5.2 GHz, and 5.8 GHz, Bluetooth Low Energy, and Wi-Fi 6. That’s a legitimate radio stack, and Software Defined Radio at this tier would be a meaningful step forward regardless of whether 5G integration ever materializes.

Both drones reportedly stay under the 250-gram threshold. Rumored flight times land around 30 minutes on standard batteries, extending toward 50 minutes with a larger plus battery that would push the weight over that limit.

The SkyRover Theory Gets Louder

When we published the original Lito piece, a reader named Stranno made a comment that stuck: “I would say it is just the CE-compliant SkyRover S1. Legs are very similar.” Now that full images are out, that community theory has picked up considerably more steam.

The SkyRover S1 is a Chinese-market sub-250g drone that drew attention in 2025 as a credible DJI alternative. Its form factor, leg geometry, and overall design language do share notable similarities with what’s showing up in the Lito leak images. Some community members are reading the two-tier structure, Lito 1 and Lito X1, as a straight mapping to the SkyRover S1 and X1, possibly with hardware refinements to the avoidance system.

One theory is that the Lito 1 gets a simpler obstacle avoidance setup similar to the DJI Neo 2, while the Lito X1 retains or upgrades the more capable 3D sensing.

Neither DJI nor SkyRover has confirmed any connection. This is community-level pattern recognition, not confirmed reporting. But the visual overlap is real enough that it’s worth stating plainly.

DroneXL’s Take

Here’s what I actually think: the leg photo was enough to confirm these drones exist. The new images confirm what they look like. What we still don’t have is DJI’s own voice in any of this, and that silence is starting to feel like a very deliberate holding pattern.

The FCC confidentiality window expires in late May 2026. DJI doesn’t have to announce before then, but they rarely let regulatory deadlines do the talking for them. An announcement before that deadline is the logical play, and the appearance of both models in the RC2 software suggests the internal readiness is already there.

The SkyRover connection, confirmed or not, is the thread I keep coming back to. DJI cleared both Lito drones with the FCC before the December 23 import restriction deadline. If the Lito series is related hardware with DJI branding and DJI software polish, that’s not a scandal.

That’s a smart supply chain move in a complicated regulatory environment. The question is whether the end product is worth what DJI will charge for it compared to what’s already sitting on Amazon under a different name.

Photo credit: Quadro_News, Facebook.