Got it in today! Wooo-hooo!!!
First impressions: It's very, very pretty - I got chameleon, and it has a shiny perlized finish, and it really does change color in bright light, but in more sudued inside light it's mostly dark purple, with occasional shading into dark green and dark blue. Very tasteful. Heavier than the 1000mah Twist, though not by much. The same length. About the same length as the body of the 900mah Twist (minus Twist's button band and above). Gives a very solid impression.
*Very* comfortable to hold. Great button - clicky but not hard. Easy to find. Good positioning. Great that you can just plop it on the table horizontally and it doesn't roll.
Easy to change settings for voltage, etc. It's too bad the functions are, forgive me, screwy. For me, the only useful display is the voltage, the puff counter and the voltage suggestions might as well not be there. I'd like the carto resistance displayed. And the only way that I see for the puff counter to be useful is if we could reset it for each "puffing" session without turning the batt off - that would be good to model vaping more like smoking, several puffs at a time, rather than just keep puffing all day long - some people might want to do that. Otherwise you have to go through all the rigmarole of counting how many puffs per day, and how many puff per battery life, etc, etc - I don't know how many people have the patience for that.
However, all that aside, the battery is *great*. Absolutely great. Comfortable, with good display that is also very pretty (love the mirror effect) and very well visible when used, great button, comfortable shape, etc. I love it, I really do.
The connection is pretty much what I expected, no surprises there, works exactly as what we saw in reviews. Other than the slight wobble with the 510 connector is a lot more slight than I expected. I have to push on it with some force to wobble it, and the result is insignificant. If you don't bug it, it won't bug you.
The cap fits onto the batt *very* tightly right now. Hard to get off. I expect that will loosen up with time.
Now, for the Tidy. This was a *huge* surprise to me. It's a bottom coil, but it doesn't *taste* like a bottom coil. The taste is dense, full, sharpish - sort of reminds me of the Fluxo, but, actually, stronger, I think. 2.3 Ohms is what I got. I had it up to 4.5 Volts with no dry hits. After 4.5 Volts, it started dry hitting often. More than enough range for me.
Now, I am *extremely* finicky with the flavor of my cartos. I think this is one if one of the best, flavor-wise, for both top bottom coils *and* top coils. The flavor is stronger than a Stardust, but sharper. If I make an analogy with the sound equalizer, the Stardust is flat across the frequencies, while the Tidy is boosted at the treble.
I think this is a *great* carto. It doesn't leak. I have it on its side right now, on the batt, and haven't seen a drop of liquid where it's not supposed to be. I'm going to be getting more of these things. They remind me of Nano, but without the funky mouthpieces that fall out sometimes.
Not all is rosy, however. The mouthpiece on the Tidy is just that flat plug, and a 510 drip tip doesn't fit, the tube is too narrow. Also, it doesn't *quite* fit under the cap of the iTaste. You can force it, and the cap will sort of click closed, but it's not a complete click. It wouldn't fall off, but it's not quite right either. Plus, by forcing the cap, the Tidy gets jammed in there, and I'm not sure if that's doing any damage to either the carto or the adapter. What happens is that you jam it in, and when you take the cap off and try to take a puff, it's no longer making a connection for some bizarre reaons, so you have to loosen it up, and then it works again.
That kind of bugs me, because here I have a great PV, and a great carto that came with it - and I can't quite use them together.
But, in the grand scheme of things, it's a small-ish problem. I very, very much hope they'll make bigger caps for these
So, to summarize: I LOVE THIS THING. This definitely going to be my main PV for going out, hands down. As soon as I can, I'll get more batts. And i am going to get a couple of more adapters today, before they are gone.
Great PV. I'm a happy puppy.