Well, the same day Insta360 made the announcement that a new product would be announced on 4/22/2025, videos start popping up on YouTube. Folks who had been using the camera ahead of release were being allowed to show some video (including side-by-side comparisons of the X4 versus the X5 in low light) and, oddly, showing replacing the lens — without being able to say the name of the product or that it has user-replicable lenses.

It was quite clear that this was scripted or at least directed since multiple videos from different YouTube accounts showed them doing the same steps.

Soon we had the name, and specs and prices posted on X, and even an “unboxing video” showing the contents of the box.

Tomorrow morning we will know for sure, but it does seem clear this will be an X5 with better low light capability and user-replaceable lenses.

BEWARE of “unsponsored” videos. Go to any event and you will see the sponsor section in the show guide (or a big wall of logos somewhere) listing all the “sponsors” of the event — you will see “lodging sponsors” and “food sponsors” and all kinds of things. Insta360 is known to be “hardware sponsor” for videos, providing them with gear and accessories. These “creators” will say they are “unsponsored” when they probably mean “I wasn’t paid to make this video.”

But they are sponsored with hardware. Be wary of any videos you watch that say “unsponsored” that come out immediately — they clearly were given hundreds of dollars of product so they could do the video ;-)

Those of us without hardware sponsorships will just buy the camera and show you some footage as soon as the product is shipping.

I am preparing to do a new batch of comparison videos like I did with the ONE X2 and X3, then again with the X3 and X4. And all of mine will be using “automatic” settings with no post-processing of the video.

More to come…