I too am wondering what is going on with the next mobius. Why not start a post here so that the people working on a new mobius could ask us what we want.
I have been thinking about getting one but have not done so due to some features that are lacking and is a must for me now, so I am looking at other options.
Forget 4k and everything else people are wanting, it would make the device to complicated, expensive and deviate from what the mobius is
Cheap, reliable, small size and great picture quality
My thoughts on some upgrades that could make it into the Mobius2 without to much problems or increase in price:
1. Upgrade to a newer chip, that can do 1080p 60,50,30,25 fps and with fixed bitrates to choose from, 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 and
the reason is that in the past it was not possible to record with variable bitrate, but when you edit and re-encode a file you can
do it with variable bitrate. I have seen new chips that supports this variable birate recording or I might be wrong. Great if it
could do h256 (HEVC) to have that as a option but I thing these chips are probably to expensive and h264 is working just fine.
3. Support for up to 128Mb micro-SD cards. Larger cards lasts longer as it takes a longer time to continuously overwriting the
data that is stored on the card.
4. Groves in the casing and lens housing so you can move it to fixed 90, 180 and 270 degree position, this is use full for
people wanting to side mount the mobius, for whatever reason or if you are using it upside down. Not all sensors (or chip)
have the option to flip the image you get from it. Besides rotating a image 90 degrees is something you have to do by moving
the lens housing, not supported by any chip. At least not to my knowledge.
5. In order to get that function to rotate the lens the connector should be moved back and there should be a 2inch (or something
like that) cable loop inside the unit. There is a lens with extension cable for the mobius you can buy if you want to mount the
lens outside the case or some custom thing, that is the thing I am thinking about as being standard in the this revised version.
6. Add connectors to the IC-board so you can customize and hookup (if needed) connectors for HDMI-out, microphone input, headphone
output. Or at least in some smart way get access to that and buying adapter cables or something that gets you these options if you need them
for whatever your use is. Not expensive to have these options, just like you can remove the current image sensor from the board with that little
connector that is used in the mobius, or battery for that matter.
7. More LED light colors to give more indication of what is going on.
8. Two built in microphones instead of one for stereo sound, they should be high quality to. Option to select external audio instead
of using internal microphones.
9. Digital image stabilization, this is something in use by the SJ5000, M10 and Gitup2, this is a must now in any camera. It
improves the video quality a lot and in real time. Removes some shaking and so on.
10. Fixed selection of bitrates for encoding of the sound.
11. More selections of timelaps photografy, all the way up to every 10min 30min 60min
12. I think there is but not sure but I hate fisheye lens, or the ones who have wide FOV, I like the regular standard one, of course with image stabilization there will be some cropping of the image.
I think that is all.
As of now, I am looking at getting the Gitup2 it is more expensive but it has the things I am looking for.
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In short.
The only real things the current mobius needs in a updated version, or revisions are
1. New better chip, that supports 1080p 60fps, maximum bitrate of about 40-50 (novatek chip or something)
2. High quality built in microphone and a larger hole to let in more sound.
3. Digital image stabilization
4. Support 128Gb Micro-SD (FAT32 works fine)