Once all the guinea pigs get time on them, and prove them, Ill think about it, Im due for a new radio, have not bought a new one in too many years!

Bought it and sold it the same day. Gimbals feels great, rest of the radio and switches feel almost identical to a DX9. Very nice physical package.

Responsiveness of the touch interface is slooooow and inconsistent. Watch their support videos, it takes multiple touches to get the system to respond to almost anything, it’s nothing like your smartphone in that respect, even a very old smartphone. Turning the RF off helps but it still takes 2-3 presses on almost any button to get it to do anything.

Sound is quiet enough to be useless for telemetry. Follow the instructions and change the voice, crank all the volume sliders up, even download a booster as has been suggested, still too quiet to hear clearly over my wife having the TV on. There is no way I’d hear this at the field over wind blowing,or a gas plane, or even an electric flying anywhere near me. I am not hard of hearing, flying with my Jeti or DX9 I keep the volume somewhere around 75% and can hear it over anything at the field. Watched Horizon’s live QA and they said that if you want to hear it st the field to buy a Bluetooth speaker or headphones, because you won’t hear the built in speaker with a gas plane. Unacceptable.

This is going to be a great V2 product.

Originally Posted by Eury

Bought it and sold it the same day. Gimbals feels great, rest of the radio and switches feel almost identical to a DX9. Very nice physical package.

Responsiveness of the touch interface is slooooow and inconsistent. Watch their support videos, it takes multiple touches to get the system to respond to almost anything, it’s nothing like your smartphone in that respect, even a very old smartphone. Turning the RF off helps but it still takes 2-3 presses on almost any button to get it to do anything.

Sound is quiet enough to be useless for telemetry. Follow the instructions and change the voice, crank all the volume sliders up, even download a booster as has been suggested, still too quiet to hear clearly over my wife having the TV on. There is no way I’d hear this at the field over wind blowing,or a gas plane, or even an electric flying anywhere near me. I am not hard of hearing, flying with my Jeti or DX9 I keep the volume somewhere around 75% and can hear it over anything at the field. Watched Horizon’s live QA and they said that if you want to hear it st the field to buy a Bluetooth speaker or headphones, because you won’t hear the built in speaker with a gas plane. Unacceptable.

This is going to be a great V2 product.

The update from last Friday solved the latency in the touch response. I helped a friend maiden a 30cc gasser yesterday at the field and with the female voice and the radio at max volume I could here the radio easily. Probably could turn it down a bit.

Originally Posted by Fentonflyers

The update from last Friday solved the latency in the touch response. I helped a friend maiden a 30cc gasser yesterday at the field and with the female voice and the radio at max volume I could here the radio easily. Probably could turn it down a bit.

Not really. I bought it on the day of that update. It still didn’t respond to button presses first try. It may have been slightly better than the original release but it’s still nothing like a smartphone in responsiveness.

Originally Posted by Eury

Not really. I bought it on the day of that update. It still didn’t respond to button presses first try. It may have been slightly better than the original release but it’s still nothing like a smartphone in responsiveness.

Works fine for me. My friends works fine after the update too. Maybe you’re was defective.

Mine was really buggy and sluggish the first few days. I ended up doing a factory reset, deleting airware, going in and doing all android updates, downloaded airware again, then did the Friday update. It's very responsive now. The speaker sucks which I don't understand. My dx9 is crazy loud. And model changes are slow . Going to be great with a few firmware updates, glad I dont fly spek on my high usage planes. This is my fpv,heli, park flyer radio

Yeah Nappy I checked out the model change yesterday. Still very slow. I think your right though. A few more updates and most of the bugs will be sorted.

I messed with one at the LHS on Friday. First time we tried to start it, it just sat there starting up and was never successful. After waiting probably 5 minutes we had to turn it off and back on. Second time it had some sort of error, third time it finally started. After it started it looked nice but took a long time to start up. (as in minutes) The screen resolution, size and colors looked nice and were impressive. I did notice the slow screen response and multiple touches to get it to recognize an input but we thought it was because it still had the screen protector on from the factory, we didn't take it off since it was a new radio still for sale. The rest of it felt like the DX9, I did like the programming, it was easy and quick to find anything you were looking for. I'm sure it will be nice after they get a few of the bugs worked out. It amazes me that they don't get things like a slow responding touchscreen and startup issues ironed out in the testing phase. I can understand some bugs here and there but those two things seem pretty major for a new radio.


If I was in the market for a new spektrum radio and couldn't get the DX20 this is the one I'd buy. I still need a BNF radio for stuff I can't fly with my Jeti but I don't have any BNF at the moment. The used DX9's hitting the market from people buying these sure are tempting though.

I am very interested on this radio, but I think I will wait a while to see what, if any, bugs might arise.

Bill Hodges

Second firmware update came out today. They are being very proactive about getting this smoothed out. I'm really liking this radio. Don't be afraid to get one.

Originally Posted by Eury

Responsiveness of the touch interface is slooooow and inconsistent.
Watch their support videos, it takes multiple touches to get the system to respond to almost anything,
it’s nothing like your smartphone in that respect, even a very old smartphone.
Turning the RF off helps but it still takes 2-3 presses on almost any button to get it to do anything.

any smartphone under $50 is way more performant.
none of the world's top 10 smartphone makers are using such crappy processors.
the DRAM (not internal or external memory to store models) size and speed is also an important factor which leads the system to run slowly.

Yes... actually they're basically the same platform. All the front was redesigned in order to fit new electronics from them...
I know it 'cause did that job with Aircraft Studio Design. We also did other models for spektrum... check out the site!!

Originally Posted by Fentonflyers

Quick pic of mine. Very much the feel of the DX9

So it has been a couple of months. How are things going with the ix 12?

Originally Posted by Spridal

So it has been a couple of months. How are things going with the ix 12?

I'm able to crash them with that just as good as my 18.

All kidding aside it's fine. Learning curve and some expected teething. They have produced another good radio.

I made mention of getting four of these in the shop. I sold all four in one day and we have pre-sold another six. One of the original four radios is in my possession to set up in a warbird and honestly, I can't get the blasted thing past the first screen after it turns on. Haven't got to call a Horizon tech yet but will try later this week. One other unit had the same problem but the owner was an IT type that got it to work.
I'm not very keen on having to "re-flash" , reset, or do any uploading or downloading anything to get a new piece of radio gear to work out of the box.
Two out of four having the same problem of not being able to function for two different users is not what I expected. Will keep y'all posted on my findings.
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