I have six drones, an Osmo Pocket 2, Insta360 Go 2, GoPro, etc but I barely use the pocket cameras because the workflow to extract content for day-after story-telling via phone feels quite tedious. If you were only going to ingest footage post-trip and make a piece (as per the YouTube example), then I think it's less painful. A decent phone with good stabilisation can handle that though.
That said, two advantages for the Osmo Pocket:
- footage is not clogging up your phone storage, which can be particularly annoying if you are often unable to backup to the cloud
- it is literally pocket-sized, a nice form-factor compared to GoPro, and pretty quick to get out and use.
> A decent phone with good stabilisation can handle that though.
The Osmo Pocket 3 has much better low light capabilities owning to the built in gimbal compared to even top end phones (a couple of good vids on YT comparing them).
The ability to offload to removable SD is huge, especially when shooting 4k@120fps.
By the time you add a gimbal and external storage (on iPhones, only the highest end phones), that rig is pretty unwieldy!
4K anything adds up, for sure, especially if you can't cope with throwing out lesser clips!
I have a phone gimbal but haven't used it in years, so I don't disagree there.
My hassle beyond the iCloud backups when out of range is that I usually want to upload IG stories as I go, and picking through the Osmo stuff is painful enough that I just don't do it. So, for a brief time, I'd shoot everything twice which kills any personal moments (hiking with the kids, etc). And then I stopped. The Insta360 was even more limiting: smaller card, hard to tell if you were recording or if you'd run out of space, etc.
That said, two advantages for the Osmo Pocket: