Just received my new Janty eGo in the mail and have been puffing on it all afternoon. This is my second e-device, the first was the 601 epipe. FWIW, here's my initial observations from the perspective of a total newbie to this e-hobby.
This is going to be a great thing to take traveling. First impression was not too great, as the factory cartridges were REALLY full and the thing gurgled, but I took the cart out and smoked the straight pass-through tip for a few minutes and it cleared right up, and has been gurgle-free since. Incredibly handy to just drip, too, instead of fooling with cartridges. So far...
* It's really well made. Everything fits tight and flush, and the assembly is just sharper than the Chinese epipe.
* It smokes hotter than the epipe. The vapor is higher temp, though not by a lot. Logical given how much closer you are to the atomizer, I suppose. While the epipe vapor feels "cold", the vapor from this feels body temp, so I don't get that sensation of drawing on a cool breeze.
* Flavors are stronger. The epipe has a rep for damping down flavors, whereas the Janty is much clearer. I think it's partly to do with being warmer, because with the epipe, my taste reaction is, "It's almost cold, and there's a gentle hint of flavor", whereas the Janty is, "It's warm and tastes like warm apples/chocolate/cinnamon/etc."
* The outside of it gets hot. Puff on it hard, for a while, and the metal atomizer and the hood over it will get quite warm. Not painful, burning warm, but like a thin-walled hot pipe. My wife has already announced she is smoking this thing in the winter so it can serve her as a hand warmer also.
* The small size is awesome. Can live in shirt pockets nicely.
* The round tip is weird. VERY hard to get used to for a pipe guy accustomed to flat bits. It's like gnawing on the end of a magic marker cap. Fortunately, it is a push fit, and it would be incredibly easy to turn a flat pipe stem bit down to size to push in there, and have something more comfortable. I think my first mod may be to make a flat bit for this thing.
* The manual button is cool. It is very strange at first, but it took me about five minutes to adapt to it. Unlike with the epipe where you are having to draw and draw to keep it atomizing, you just click the button and hold and puff at your leisure, without having to think about whether you are drawing hard enough to trip the flow switch or not.
* The cartridge flow is SO much better. So far it has not exhibited any of the epipe's behavior of strong vapor-vapor-vapor-barely any vapor. It just goes, consistently. I'll see if it's still doing this after a week.
For a pipe guy, the form factor is really weird. It will take some getting used to. But I don't think I would ever smoke a cigar in place of this thing again. Really enjoying it so far, for sure.
Which probably won't work at all when finished, requiring another couple of tries... I'm wondering, though, if it would help if I drilled a curved airhole, with a definite top side and bottom side, to function like a sink's p-trap,and help dissuade any liquid from coming back out through the bit.
<-- the exact face I give my husband when he starts explaining the intricacies of turning gypsum rock into wallboard (his job, I hear - but don't know - a lot about it!) or when he tells me the car is fine, it's just the whatsajerwockey doing it's thing. (Girl stereotypes - I fit them.
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