This Vaporizer provides high quality, flavorful, and cool vapor. It does have a bit of a learning curve though, and is a bit pricey at $330. After you play around with it, and figure out the best grind, way to pack the bowl, draw, preferred heat setting etc., the user experience is more enjoyable. The bowl does heat unevenly, which means that you have to take the lid off and stir probably every three draws once you get it going. The vaporizer also requires that you install the Firefly 2 app on your mobile device to control the settings. You can't control the settings directly on the vaporizer. The app requires that you sync the vaporizer through Bluetooth, and also requires that you turn your phone's GPS on. Not sure why you should have to declare your location while vaping, but you can work around this by going to the developer options, under settings in your mobile device, and enabling mock locations. Then go to the app store and download a GPS spoofer. Turn the GPS spoofer on instead of your GPS and the Firefly 2 app works fine. This definitely isn't a beginner vaporizer. If you are someone with patience, that doesn't mind a bit of extra hassle to get some high quality vapor from your favorite strain, then this might be a vaporizer you'd want to look at. It allegedly saves you money on weed in the long run when compared to other portable vapes, or smoking joints, blunts, etc. If you don't want to pay the full price for it, look on ebay, find a seller that has a 14 day or 30 day return policy. Once you receive the item, don't open, just contact Firefly, and have them verify the serial number of the vaporizer, so you know whether it is authentic or not. You can find authentic ones on eBay for 80-100 bucks cheaper than the normal retail price.
Appreciate your honest review on this. Personally, I'm not really a fan of cellphones controlling settings. Sometimes you got to vape AND unplug, haha! The whole GPS thing is pretty weird to me. Does it have some sort of "find your vape" setting in the app? I don't see why else that would be necessary. Glad you included tips on the way around that. I used to use a PAX 2 and honestly wasn't really crazy about it. Felt like it took away a lot of the flavor for me on the few settings, so I'm kind of conflicted about buying a new vaporizer. Love the benefits though!
I'm not a fan of not being able to control the settings directly on the device either. It seems to still work without syncing. There is just no way to adjust the temperature. Yeah, the GPS thing is weird to me as well. No, didn't see a find your vape function anywhere in the app. This vaporizer is considered a true convection vape. Even on the highest non-concentrate setting, I've only gotten vapor, and it's been fairly cool for the most part, no burning the mouth or throat. It will blacken the herb if you don't stir the pot. I'd imagine it can burn if you just left it in there and kept drawing away, but the heat turns off after you remove your finger(s) from the sensor at the end of your draw, so you aren't cooking bud and wasting vapor in between pulls. The fragrance for me changes from piney (GG#4) to a cooking wood type of scent as the bud is used up. Doesn't smell like smoked cannabis at all. Exhaled Clouds dissipate quickly as well. Definitely won't go back to smoking. This is like a 90% cleaner pull, you aren't getting any burnt byproducts when you inhale.
Ooooo! Love me some GG#4! That's cool that it works for concentrates too. Do you like using it better for concentrates or flower?
Haven't used it for oil yet.