I've been wondering this for a long time, why with all the screen technologies out there these days even the american companies producing "high end" stuff still insist on using traditional LCDs in all their devices. There's really no reason that every screen-bearing device should force the user to decode letters to figure out what the menu function is. Albeit some are much better about it than others, it's still always been a gripe of mine. It makes me feel like I'm vaping a glorified calculator.
The OLED screens starting to show up in devices like in the sigelei and the eVic (although I haven't seen either one in person yet) really seem like one of the best ideas to come to market lately, imo. First off, they look beautiful. Honestly if devices like the Provari had the ability to display more than two characters (two characters!!) at a time I personally would be a lot more inclined to pay the steep price for one. It's almost useless to me to have a device that has all these features if the interface is so archaic and clunky. Take error codes for example - I feel this isn't something the average user wants to deal with. What the hell is an E1? Why can't it just tell you what the problem is rather than you having to go look it up when it happens? I feel like it would be more efficient for some of these devices to come with a decoder ring.
The current screened devices are more of a PV with a screen tacked on, you take that idea and allow it to tell people exactly what's going on and now you have something much more intuitive - one that normal people can use without an enigma machine. I feel in this day and age, vaping should be getting less complicated. I don't know about everyone else, I'd even be willing to pay a small premium for better clarity on existing devices.
Anyway, that kind of turned into a bit of a rant, but I hope the trend continues and we see less and less calculator screens as time progresses. If the Provari v3 has an OLED on it, you can finally put me down for one.
The OLED screens starting to show up in devices like in the sigelei and the eVic (although I haven't seen either one in person yet) really seem like one of the best ideas to come to market lately, imo. First off, they look beautiful. Honestly if devices like the Provari had the ability to display more than two characters (two characters!!) at a time I personally would be a lot more inclined to pay the steep price for one. It's almost useless to me to have a device that has all these features if the interface is so archaic and clunky. Take error codes for example - I feel this isn't something the average user wants to deal with. What the hell is an E1? Why can't it just tell you what the problem is rather than you having to go look it up when it happens? I feel like it would be more efficient for some of these devices to come with a decoder ring.
The current screened devices are more of a PV with a screen tacked on, you take that idea and allow it to tell people exactly what's going on and now you have something much more intuitive - one that normal people can use without an enigma machine. I feel in this day and age, vaping should be getting less complicated. I don't know about everyone else, I'd even be willing to pay a small premium for better clarity on existing devices.
Anyway, that kind of turned into a bit of a rant, but I hope the trend continues and we see less and less calculator screens as time progresses. If the Provari v3 has an OLED on it, you can finally put me down for one.
