DJI put the Pearl White Osmo Pocket 4P on sale today at 12 PM GMT, at £529 for the Standard Combo in the UK, the price the black model has carried since the July 30 global launch. The launch video DJI posted to YouTube this morning walks through the camera’s spec list over footage shot around London, and the United States is missing from the availability list for the third Pocket launch this year.

The video’s fine print names firmware 01.02.12.01, ActiveTrack 9.0 and 18x digital zoom. DJI’s press release for the same launch, issued at 8 AM Eastern, says ActiveTrack 8.0 and 12x.

The Launch Video Advertises Zoom And Tracking DJI’s Spec Sheets Do Not Carry

The video’s disclaimers say 18x digital zoom and ActiveTrack 9.0 “require updating the device to firmware 01.02.12.01 or later.” No release notes for it are public. The newest Pocket 4P firmware third-party trackers list is 01.01.71.31 from September 3, and DJI’s downloads page returns a 404 from the United States.

Every spec sheet DroneXL has seen for this camera tops out at 12x zoom and ActiveTrack 8.0, from the China launch on June 15 through today’s press release. The rest of the video’s fine print matches the known hardware. Slow motion runs to 4K/240fps on the wide camera and 4K/200fps on the telephoto, the 17 stops apply in D-Log 2 only, and Film Tone and in-camera Beautify work in video mode only and never together. The 18x zoom is unavailable in Panorama, Slow Motion and Timelapse, and ActiveTrack drops out in Panorama, Timelapse, Motionlapse, SpinShot and horizontal FPV mode.

Woman in a sleeveless cream top leaning on a rooftop railing above the London skyline, with the caption Med-Tele Lens For Portraits, 3x Optical Zoom
The 60mm telephoto at 3x optical zoom, shot above the City of London for DJI's launch video. Photo credit: DJI

DJI has done this on this camera before. In September, Pocket 4P owners in Japan found that the FrameTap remote and a DJI Mic could connect at once under firmware 01.01.71.31, a change no DJI changelog listed.

Pearl White Costs The Same As Black And Skips The US Again

The Standard Combo lists at £529 through store.dji.com and DJI retailers, with the fill light, wrist strap, threaded handle and carrying pouch finished in white to match the mica-based shell DroneXL described when DJI set the date last week. The press release names no US price and no US retailer.

Woman holding the white DJI Osmo Pocket 4P toward the camera on a city street, its two lenses ringed in green, next to text listing the 60mm f/1.8 telephoto and 20mm f/2.0 wide lens
The white 4P's stacked cameras: a 60mm f/1.8 telephoto on a 1/1.28-inch sensor above the 20mm f/2.0 wide lens on a 1-inch sensor. Photo credit: DJI

DJI’s US product page for the Pocket 4P still ended on “Sorry, the page was not found” when DroneXL opened it this morning, as it did on October 15. DJI has been on the FCC Covered List since December 22, 2025, which keeps new DJI hardware from the equipment authorization it needs for legal US sale. The black 4P reached American buyers through an importer on Amazon, where DroneXL found it listed at $980 on July 29 with the unit activated before export.

DroneXL’s Take

DJI is advertising a firmware nobody can download. Either 01.02.12.01 is about to ship with ActiveTrack 9.0 and 18x digital zoom, or the fine print under a model’s face is wrong, and DJI’s own press release from the same hour picks the old numbers. My read is that the firmware is real and close, because DJI’s launch videos carry legal disclaimers, not wishes. That upgrade matters more to anyone who already owns a black 4P than a white shell does, and DJI printed it in six-point type. If you own a 4P, I’d watch DJI Mimo for 01.02.12.01, because the changelog may not say what it does when it arrives. American buyers can skip the vigil. A new paint job changes nothing on the Covered List, and the camera in the video is still one no US retailer can sell.

Sources: DJI on YouTube, DJI press release via PR Newswire, DJI UK press release via Mynewsdesk, Newsshooter firmware roundup

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