hittman said:

I think I’m going to pick up Chinese food for dinner tonight. The wife doesn’t need to cook and I don’t feel like it. The Chinese restaurant we like is only about 5-10 minutes away.

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Good plan.

Good evening Shinies.

Example problem

**Testing/Usage:**

Coming firmly from the "Not Pods" camp, I have to say, I was VERY impressed by the G4 Pro, and the GPP Pods. First things first, the flavor was VERY good, and FAR better than I had expected. Fruits, bakeries, and even custards fared very well. As far as flavor production, fruits topped the scale, with bakeries slightly less, but still very good, and custards rounding it out, where believe it or not, most of the deep creamy buttery-ness actually translated. Maybe not 100% as good as our DTL rebuildable sub-ohms, but, hehe, it is close enough. The side fill was stupid easy, and required NO effort, pod removal, or special steps, just open, fill, close. After over 25 pod refills, I have yet to have a single gurgle, pop, or leak. I not only left the pod/mod on it's side overnight, but upside down when charging, and NO LEAKS. Pulled the pod after every re-fill (not required), just to check for any seepage onto the contacts, NONE.

Power adjustments were minimal but worked, and I left it on Storm through my tests. 35 watts seemed a smidge too toasty on the 0.4 ohm cils, and I ran it at 30 watts for all of my 0.4 ohms tests, and ramped it down across the 0.9, and 1.2 ohms where I think I settled on 8-10 watts for MTL. The coils actual restriction did increase somewhat when moving up in the ohm ratings with the 1.2 ohm being the most restricted, which when used in conjunction with the adjustable airflow slider, worked very good for both DTL, and MTL. The fact that the Pods o-rings were color coded just made swapping around even easier. The display remained easy to see, and the UI easy to use, and once dialed in, I basically set it and forgot it. With NO fire button (the button on the side wakes the unit, and (powers up/down). The draw firing worked flawlessly, with no mis-firing. The touch screen while small did actually work pretty good, with only a few mis swipes.

**Pros:**

* Good Flavor Reproduction
* GPP Pods Used in 11 different models, should stay available
* Smart Looking
* Side Fill
* Bright easy to see and use Display/UI
* Different pod ohm ratings for different needs
* Adjustable power curves (very basic)
* Quick 2.5A USB-C charging
* NO LEAKING
* Touchscreen
* Pod o-rings color coded per ohm rating
* GPP Pods last very long time

**Cons:**

* 3 Locked Themes (unlocked based on puff count) ??
* 3 Power Curves fairly basic only
* Battery Life Fair in Normal Mode, Improves with Battery Saver
* Small touchscreen, occasional mis-swipes
* Bigger than some slim mini pods (con ??)

**Conclusion:**

Well dammit, I went into this expecting to be let down, or at least unimpressed, but I came out of this, fairly impressed. Flavor reproduction was very good, and across Fruits, Bakeries, and Custards. While covering RDTL through MTL, the RDTL was still slightly restricted, even with the 0.4 ohm pods, but it still worked good enough for an all day affair in RDTL. MTL was good as well, with the 1.2 ohm pods and backing the airflow slider adjustment off a bit for a good MTL experience. I literally torture tested the pods with sweet juices, including sour/tart as malic acid and sweeteners are coil killers, but as of this writing, I still have NOT thrown out a single Pod. NO, no, NO leaks of any kind. On it's side, upside down, didn't matter, ZERO (including any seepage beneath the Pod into the Mod), ZERO. Loved the fact, that the 3ml GPP Pods were all side fill, which required NO removal of the Pods, just open, fill, close, done. Battery life was pretty good in regular mode, but the battery saver mode helped boost it up some more. Quick charging, easy to read display, and only minor issues with the small 2.51" touchscreen with occasional swiping errors, or mis-swipes, but it was fully functional. The screen auto locked flawlessly, as did the draw firing, with no complaints. Every time a Pod was removed or inserted, the Pod ohms were displayed along with wattage rec's, and a nice haptic pulse.

All in, a damned fine showing from UWELL, and that's coming from the NOT Pod Guy at that. I guess my biggest WTF, was/were the 3 locked themes that required 5k, 10k, and 20k puffs to unlock. Not a deal breaker, but made my brain hurt LOL.

If you are looking for a very good, and tasty RDTL, or MTL with long lasting Pods, which come in 4 different ohm ratings, depending on your needs, the UWELL Caliburn Pro 4 would work for you. Easy to use, no leaks, portable, with a touchscreen and draw firing, it really covered all of the must haves. Not state of the art, and the power curves were fairly basic, but still, for the price, it's going to be hard to beat.

Thanks for sharing some of your free time, and scrolling ALL the way down here. I appreciate it.

S.D.

**Colors:**

After swiping up to unlock, swiping down revealed the easy menu system ....



Screen timeout ...



Animations .....



Battery Saver ....



Clean UI (allows for custom text !!!!!) .....



Why not ....



Tapping the current mode, for power mode choices. Waves (ramps up), Storm (ramps down), and Custom (choose beginning, middle, end power) ....





Tapping current wattage, power can be adjusted ....



Swiping side to side to change unlocked themes ....

Top Side of Mod with Juice Level Port, Pod with safety tape (removed before use) ....



GPP Pod, with side fill top right, and "min" juice level line near bottom .....



Closeup of Pod Juice Port and Cotton ...



Top view of mesh and cotton .....



Pod Dual Airflow Ports (B = Big) (S = Small), Gold Power Contacts, Silver Magnets, and ohm rating/suggested power .....



Mod Side .....



Side Fill Open and Filling ....



Side Fill Closed ....



Filled and ready to go. Airflow slider fully open (down) ....



Very crisp, easy to read 2.51" touch display showed new pod inserted ohms, suggested power with a little haptic pulse ....

GREAT cross platform compatibility .....



Extra GPP Pods and Paperwork. RIGHT out of the gate, I LOVED that the Pods were color coded per their ohm rating. 0.4 ohms Red, 0.6 ohms Orange, 0.9 ohms Yellow, and 1.2 ohms Green ....



The G4 Pro w./ screen protector ...



2.51" Touch Screen ....



Activation button (not fire button), and USB-C charging port ...





SBS Ink Blue (Left) and Frost White (Right) ....



Logo Side with very hard to capture underlay ....

I think I’m going to pick up Chinese food for dinner tonight. The wife doesn’t need to cook and I don’t feel like it. The Chinese restaurant we like is only about 5-10 minutes away.

Waving Hi to you great folks from my iPad.

Headed to my iPad and tv.

Poor example

Prime example

I don't have any of the old minis, but I do have a couple of Nauti 3 Nanos, which are the same size (and whatnot) of the old ones. Some say the vape's a lot better (myself included), but that's a personal preference issue so I can't say it'd be true for you too.

I've heard about Black Note Forte https://vapour.co.uk/product/black-note-forte-eliquid/ and ill be giving that a try (20mg prefererred) if i can find uk stockists for it. May order from the USA but i dont want starmers clowns snooping around and giving me grief, or usa tarifs to bite me. So uk if i can get it to try. they say its good/the best one. 20mg id need though.

(yes and any fruit flavour from anywhe really , is a delight! )

ok, update: 25-02-2026 . Maybe my xpros pro g2 or the COREX 3.0 1.0 ohm pod arnt working properly. I mean it vapes but very low. Im geting 2 more xpros pro g2's tomorrow/day after and wil try again,

But this is magic so far! vaping both XROS 3(Vapouriz Premium Classic - 20mg) and XROS 5 (Simple Essentials Deluxe Tobacco – 18mg)

and wow just to reiterate again. wow this flavour eliquid is amazing !! - Vapouriz Premium Classic - 20mg

{though too strong !?!!!? on the xros5, but heaven on the xros3!!!).

shining example

Had nothing vape related to do this weekend which is unusual. No juice to mix or wicks and coils to replace. Saturday I made a big batch of leek soup, 20 portions in the freezer. Sunday I made a batch of hummus, mostly went in the freezer. Today was going to be a giant batch of Shepards Pie but got distracted after the shopping trip, have to do it tomorrow while the ground beef is still good. Like to have plenty in the freezer for days when I don't feel like cooking.

I gave up on the Lost Mary disposables part way through the second one. Wife got through 5 of them. We both got uncomfortable with the nic overload effects. She gave the rest to a daughter who wanted to try quitting. She says she is using them but hasn't tried to quit the smokes yet. She drinks a lot, and then vapes so she doesn't fall asleep and drop a cig on the carpet. Guess it's a good thing.

hittman said:

We’re at 61 so far

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Be awhile before we see that.

We’re at 61 so far

lights shining

daleron said:

Me I’m fighting off sleep, got up too early today.

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I noticed. Haven't you trained DH to wait until the sun comes up?

We have 37 today and tomorrow says the same.

hittman said:

I did manage to get in a workout. Not much else on schedule today. I saw there are a bunch of small branches on the ground in the backyard so may go out and pick them up. It’s going to be spring before I know it and time to start the yard work.

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Still winter here. Can't wait til Spring.