Vaporesso XROS Pro Pod Kit

The 1200mAh battery is generous for a pod and sees most people through a day, helped by the Super Pulse efficiency. It charges over USB-C at 2A and reaches a full charge in around 35 minutes, so top-ups are quick. An LED shows the battery level, and the device offers both button-fire and auto-draw, so you can press to fire or simply inhale, whichever you prefer. There is a lockable power feature to stop accidental firing in a pocket.

An adjustable airflow ring fine-tunes the draw without changing the pod, from a tight mouth-to-lung pull to a looser restricted lung one. Combined with the choice of pods and the adjustable wattage, that gives the XROS Pro a genuinely wide range for such a slim device. It keeps the clean, understated XROS styling, now in ten colours, so it looks smart while doing far more than the standard models.

There is very little to it. Fill the pod, let it soak, set the airflow and power, and vape. The one habit worth keeping is giving a fresh pod a couple of minutes before the first hard pull so the coil wicks and you avoid a burnt taste, especially on the lower-resistance pods.

The kit is £18.99, and after that you only buy pods and juice. XROS pods are among the cheapest and most widely sold pods around, and the mesh coils last well, so the running cost is very low. Fill it from a 10ml nic salt for a couple of pounds and a pod-full costs pennies, far below prefilled pods or disposables. The maths against a bar-a-day habit is stark: the saving over a month runs into tens of pounds.

Against a disposable it is no contest: you buy the device once, then only pay for pods and juice, where a bar gets binned every couple of days. You bin far less too, just a small pod now and then. It is the same money-saving logic as any refillable pod kit, with the bonus of adjustable power and Super Pulse that the cheaper pods leave out.

The XROS Pro is reliable, helped by the well-proven XROS pod design. The few snags that come up trace to a pod that has not soaked, the wattage or airflow, or the lock.

Within the XROS line the Pro is the powerhouse. Against the standard XROS 5 and the newer XROS Pro 2, the original Pro brings the adjustable 30W output, the 0.4ohm pod and AXON Super Pulse to the family, where the plainer models keep things simpler and lower-powered. They all share the same XROS pods, so the choice comes down to whether you want pure simplicity or the Pro's extra power and flavour. If you like to turn the wattage up, the Pro is the one.

Against a disposable it wins on every count that matters: cost, control, battery and waste. It is a touch more involved than a sealed bar, but it gives you far more in return and recharges and refills instead of going in the bin. For anyone who wants the most capable pod in the best-selling XROS range, the XROS Pro is a strong pick, and it sits alongside our wider sub-ohm vapes for those who want a looser, cloudier style.