GoPro Volta Review - The Must-Have Battery, Grip, Remote, & Tripod Accessory

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthis handle is the gopro volta and it may be the new must-have accessory for all gopro users welcome everybody to apple insider it is andrew here and you can find me on twitter at andrew underscore osu if you haven't done so already please go ahead and subscribe and enable those notifications so you don't miss any of my videos today i am excited to show off the new gopro volta which is a brilliant accessory that combines multiple accessories into one if you are even close to a regular gopro user you may want to pick one of these up i highly highly recommend it everything about it is really cool so let's go ahead and talk about the details but the short short version of this is this one accessory can act as a handle a tripod a bluetooth remote as well as an external battery pack for your gopro that's a lot of stuff in one device and gopro really pulled this off let's go ahead and talk about in a little bit more detail so here's the gopro volta i'm going to walk you through the design and specs and stuff like that so starting off just here at the bottom you do have a removable lanyard you can put onto your wrist or any of your bags to hold on to everything it does have an adjustable spring-loaded clip to kind of tighten it on your wrist and this is stretchy so you can extend this out makes it a little bit easier get over your wrist if you've got gloves on or anything like that now gopro says this is weather resistant so it's going to hold up in snow and stuff but do not take it under water it is not water resistant so don't expect to take this underwater diving or free diving scuba diving anything like that so it then goes and splits parts away up about two thirds up there are two legs on the volta that will extend out so you can use it just handheld or you can prop it up this way and turn it into a makeshift tripod so it's not particularly high but a great way to put it down and get at least some kind of tripod action out of this thing so those close up they stay nice and neat tight in there i really like that as you move up i'm going to start on the side there's a button here and this is an additional set of clips so if i press this yeah those snap right out so this is great if you have a backpack or another strap where you want to connect your gopro to so you can hook this up put the gopro on top connect this to your bag on your chest anything like that so an additional set here they're super strong and i love this button just feels so good so they don't even collapse on their own you do have to press the button again and then close them one more time just for fun yeah spring loaded really nice button work here by gopro i love that feature then we have our usbc cable that's going to plug into the side of the gopro then our buttons on the back so there's a few buttons that they've actually included here so you have your mode and power button here on the bottom to actually control the gopro you have your record button there in the center then you have your bluetooth button there there are a series of status lights built in so you can see battery life and your camera mode on there and this whole thing is compatible with gopro mods if you have any additional mods going on with your gopro you can still use this at the same time then your standard gopro mount here at the top as i mentioned one of the bigger benefits of the the volta is battery life and adding that extra battery life to the gopros anyone who's used a fairly recent gopro will tell you that the battery life has been one of the weak points for the system like the camera quality everything like that is is top-notch but battery it's fallen short and especially with the original battery in cold weather it would take a hit so gopro did try to help with this by recently releasing the enduro battery and i i like this a lot and especially in the winter time skiing snowboarding stuff like that outdoor activities in the in the cold this helps quite a bit extend the battery life but it's still it still isn't enough there's only so much space inside of a gopro that you know gopro can add battery capacity and the way that they're getting around this now is with the volta so inside of here there is actually a 4 900 milliamp hour battery so a 4900 milliamp hour battery and combined with what's in the gopro you can get they say over four hours of 5.3 k video recording time at 30 frames per second and i think that is a much more reasonable amount of time for your gopro and a lot of users already have something like this that they're using they're already having it strapped to their chest they're already holding it on a gimbal or a handle something like that or they've got a tripod so by adding that battery capacity to this accessory i think makes a whole lot of sense to set this up of course i need my gopro this happens to be the 10 black hero 10 black on the side with the power connector the battery all that kind of fun stuff this door this will pop open so you just pull down and it'll slide open for us there nice and tight to keep it water resistant but you can see we got our memory card we've got our our usb c port we've got the battery this door here comes off really easily just pull it boom it comes free and included with the volta is a replacement door it looks like this so it's very similar but it does have a hole and at the bottom where your connector is going to go in and gopro again warns when you have this mod door on here it will not keep it water resistant because you have a big hole in it so do not put this on and then go scuba diving just going to be a bad idea you're not going to help your gopro out by any means so you're going to hook that up towards the top and close that now you'll have full access to the usbc port on the inside so we can take our volta here we can connect our gopro to our gopro mount there at the top twist that into place once we get that in there you of course can change the angle of your gopro whatever you need and it also twists around so depending on which way you want to use this you can twist the whole thing and change the different way your gopro is facing it's got a real nice click to it i love it like snaps into place it's not weak anything like that really nice click in how that rotates around but then you can go ahead and connect the volta to the side of the gopro this is just going to slot right into place and now our volta is powering up our gopro as an added benefit this usb-c cable can be used to charge other devices and not just gopros so if you had something like an ipad or another accessory that just need a little bit more juice you can use the volta to top it off this will charge up over usb-c itself you can see we have a usb-c port hidden on the underside now when you plug this in it'll take under two and a half hours to charge up the entire thing but there is a fast charge mode which will give you uh i believe 60 charge in only an hour which is not too bad at all like i said volta can also be used wirelessly as a bluetooth remote with your camera disconnected okay with everything connected i can go ahead and press the mode button here and we'll jump between there's time lapse back to video and again to photo if i were to capture a photo press the center button fired off a photo if i switch to video mode can of course start recording a video that way as well boom it's recording a video press again just to stop there's our bluetooth pairing button we even have our battery icon there to turn this thing on and off and you can see the battery percentage so that's it that is the gopro volta i have not been this excited about a gopro accessory in a long time it's brilliant how they put everything together in such a compact package is just an awesome awesome awesome upgrade for any gopro user if you guys do want to grab one of these for yourself there's a link below in the description and i want to hear your thoughts what do you think of the gopro volta let me know on twitter at andrew underscore osu or drop me a line down below in the comments and stay tuned got a lot more videos coming your way youthis handle is the gopro volta and it may be the new must-have accessory for all gopro users welcome everybody to apple insider it is andrew here and you can find me on twitter at andrew underscore osu if you haven't done so already please go ahead and subscribe and enable those notifications so you don't miss any of my videos today i am excited to show off the new gopro volta which is a brilliant accessory that combines multiple accessories into one if you are even close to a regular gopro user you may want to pick one of these up i highly highly recommend it everything about it is really cool so let's go ahead and talk about the details but the short short version of this is this one accessory can act as a handle a tripod a bluetooth remote as well as an external battery pack for your gopro that's a lot of stuff in one device and gopro really pulled this off let's go ahead and talk about in a little bit more detail so here's the gopro volta i'm going to walk you through the design and specs and stuff like that so starting off just here at the bottom you do have a removable lanyard you can put onto your wrist or any of your bags to hold on to everything it does have an adjustable spring-loaded clip to kind of tighten it on your wrist and this is stretchy so you can extend this out makes it a little bit easier get over your wrist if you've got gloves on or anything like that now gopro says this is weather resistant so it's going to hold up in snow and stuff but do not take it under water it is not water resistant so don't expect to take this underwater diving or free diving scuba diving anything like that so it then goes and splits parts away up about two thirds up there are two legs on the volta that will extend out so you can use it just handheld or you can prop it up this way and turn it into a makeshift tripod so it's not particularly high but a great way to put it down and get at least some kind of tripod action out of this thing so those close up they stay nice and neat tight in there i really like that as you move up i'm going to start on the side there's a button here and this is an additional set of clips so if i press this yeah those snap right out so this is great if you have a backpack or another strap where you want to connect your gopro to so you can hook this up put the gopro on top connect this to your bag on your chest anything like that so an additional set here they're super strong and i love this button just feels so good so they don't even collapse on their own you do have to press the button again and then close them one more time just for fun yeah spring loaded really nice button work here by gopro i love that feature then we have our usbc cable that's going to plug into the side of the gopro then our buttons on the back so there's a few buttons that they've actually included here so you have your mode and power button here on the bottom to actually control the gopro you have your record button there in the center then you have your bluetooth button there there are a series of status lights built in so you can see battery life and your camera mode on there and this whole thing is compatible with gopro mods if you have any additional mods going on with your gopro you can still use this at the same time then your standard gopro mount here at the top as i mentioned one of the bigger benefits of the the volta is battery life and adding that extra battery life to the gopros anyone who's used a fairly recent gopro will tell you that the battery life has been one of the weak points for the system like the camera quality everything like that is is top-notch but battery it's fallen short and especially with the original battery in cold weather it would take a hit so gopro did try to help with this by recently releasing the enduro battery and i i like this a lot and especially in the winter time skiing snowboarding stuff like that outdoor activities in the in the cold this helps quite a bit extend the battery life but it's still it still isn't enough there's only so much space inside of a gopro that you know gopro can add battery capacity and the way that they're getting around this now is with the volta so inside of here there is actually a 4 900 milliamp hour battery so a 4900 milliamp hour battery and combined with what's in the gopro you can get they say over four hours of 5.3 k video recording time at 30 frames per second and i think that is a much more reasonable amount of time for your gopro and a lot of users already have something like this that they're using they're already having it strapped to their chest they're already holding it on a gimbal or a handle something like that or they've got a tripod so by adding that battery capacity to this accessory i think makes a whole lot of sense to set this up of course i need my gopro this happens to be the 10 black hero 10 black on the side with the power connector the battery all that kind of fun stuff this door this will pop open so you just pull down and it'll slide open for us there nice and tight to keep it water resistant but you can see we got our memory card we've got our our usb c port we've got the battery this door here comes off really easily just pull it boom it comes free and included with the volta is a replacement door it looks like this so it's very similar but it does have a hole and at the bottom where your connector is going to go in and gopro again warns when you have this mod door on here it will not keep it water resistant because you have a big hole in it so do not put this on and then go scuba diving just going to be a bad idea you're not going to help your gopro out by any means so you're going to hook that up towards the top and close that now you'll have full access to the usbc port on the inside so we can take our volta here we can connect our gopro to our gopro mount there at the top twist that into place once we get that in there you of course can change the angle of your gopro whatever you need and it also twists around so depending on which way you want to use this you can twist the whole thing and change the different way your gopro is facing it's got a real nice click to it i love it like snaps into place it's not weak anything like that really nice click in how that rotates around but then you can go ahead and connect the volta to the side of the gopro this is just going to slot right into place and now our volta is powering up our gopro as an added benefit this usb-c cable can be used to charge other devices and not just gopros so if you had something like an ipad or another accessory that just need a little bit more juice you can use the volta to top it off this will charge up over usb-c itself you can see we have a usb-c port hidden on the underside now when you plug this in it'll take under two and a half hours to charge up the entire thing but there is a fast charge mode which will give you uh i believe 60 charge in only an hour which is not too bad at all like i said volta can also be used wirelessly as a bluetooth remote with your camera disconnected okay with everything connected i can go ahead and press the mode button here and we'll jump between there's time lapse back to video and again to photo if i were to capture a photo press the center button fired off a photo if i switch to video mode can of course start recording a video that way as well boom it's recording a video press again just to stop there's our bluetooth pairing button we even have our battery icon there to turn this thing on and off and you can see the battery percentage so that's it that is the gopro volta i have not been this excited about a gopro accessory in a long time it's brilliant how they put everything together in such a compact package is just an awesome awesome awesome upgrade for any gopro user if you guys do want to grab one of these for yourself there's a link below in the description and i want to hear your thoughts what do you think of the gopro volta let me know on twitter at andrew underscore osu or drop me a line down below in the comments and stay tuned got a lot more videos coming your way you\n"