Pod System Reviews

Aspire Pixo Pod Kit

Aspire get all techie with their latest pod kit, the Pixo so it was time to let Stephen get his geek on!

by Stephen Gitsham
Nov 28, 2024

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The Electronic Cigarette Company (TECC) sent the Aspire Pixo pod kit over for me to have a punt at.

I like to track what’s going on in the world of vaping by being a vaping geek and looking at all the new kits coming out, whether they’re pod kits, mods, mod kits, disposables or just tanks. One thing I’ve noticed lately is pod kits coming with HD screens and this is the first one I’ve got my hands on. My first though was why? Why do an HD screen when it’s likely about an inch in size? Seems gimmicky. But this one is different as it’s also a touch screen display. Plus, I don’t mind the HD screen either as my eyesight is getting a touch blurry and it’s nice to have clear information to look at. Sometimes something new comes out and it just feels different. The Pixo is different, in a good way.

This Aspire Pixo comes with a 1100mAh internal battery and will go up to 30W. It has a fast-charging USB Type C slot and is advertised as charging up in 35 minutes. It does both button firing and auto draw, both work well on it. The pods are specific to the device and are 2ml capacity. You can get them in packs of two, and there are 1.0ohm, 0.6ohm and 0.4ohm versions available to buy. There’s an airflow adjuster that allows you to customise your draw from a reasonably tight one up to (in my opinion) a reasonably restricted RDL.

In the box you get:

1 Aspire Pixo Device with 0.4ohm pod preinstalled
1 Aspire Pixo Pod, 1.0ohms
1 USB-C Cable
1 User Manual

Style wise, the kit is long and slim, with nice, rounded edges so it’s sits comfortably enough in your hand. The front of it is a bit boring to look at until you turn the thing on as the screen takes up a lot of the space. The fire button is at the top and responds well, as does the auto draw. On the back it’s quite classy, like some of their other offerings. I was sent the gray version, and I do like the kind of scratchy criss cross lines that show up under the light. The branding is minimal with Aspire printed at the top on the front and Pixo printed at the bottom on the reverse. On the side you have your airflow control and that has three holes when fully open for DTL/RDL (RDL really for me) and a small hole when fully closed for a tight MTL draw. The only drawback I have found at all with the kit is that you can’t stand it upright due to the rounded edges on the bottom, it has to lay flat or on its side.

The touchscreen really does work well and it’s the first touchscreen vape device I’ve tried but it has really impressed me with its responsiveness. Three clicks will get you to the menu, which is laid out well and simply. You can set manual or smart output for adjusting wattage, you can set how it draws, with either auto draw, button draw or both. There’s a puff record option that allows you to see your puffs over the past seven days. There’s a vibration menu, which lets you turn off the vibration function, or turn it on if it’s off. Next up is the screen menu that lets you adjust the brightness or set how long you want the screen to stay lit once you’ve stopped drawing. There’s a theme menu that lets you change the design of the graphics on the screen and that lets you choose from three options. There’s a vaping animation menu that allows you to choose from three different reels when you take a draw or turn it off completely (I like that! It’s off).

Whew, a lot of stuff to do!

The touchscreen really is very responsive and could be a godsend for those with dexterity issues that just want a pod kit. The only issue I had was that it took me ages to figure out how to adjust the wattage (you slide your finger down on the screen twice by the way). I struggled, despite there being instructions on the plastic sleeve the kit comes in, on a wee card insert and in the manual. I just wasn’t getting it until I swiped twice in frustration and the wattage, along with plus and minus icons came up. Doughnut!

In use I started off with the 0.4ohm pod that’s preinstalled. This has a wattage range of 23-30W, and the smart mode sets it at a decent 26W for you. I found that to be good for me for once and just left it there. The advertising says that the 0.4 pod is good for DTL and RDL but I felt it was a bit too restricted for DTL myself. It’s just not loose enough but the RDL draw is lovely, and the flavour is very bright. It works well with 70/30 juice as well with no burny taste at all on a chain vape.

The 1.0ohm pod is for MTL and works great as well. The vapour production is obviously less but the flavour is still there, and I also liked that I could take some RDL draws now and again without burning the cotton. Obviously, it works better with 50/50 juice but not just salts as the advertising states.

Final Thoughts

Aspire have been around for a long time and this pod kit shows why. It’s the first touchscreen kit I’ve had, and it just works wonderfully. The screen is responsive and clear and there are plenty of options to customise the look of what it shows. I can honestly say it’s the first ‘innovation’ in a pod kit that I’ve been seriously impressed with, most are just rehashes of a previous version.

It all comes down to the vape though and the vape on the Aspire Pixo is also impressive. The coils in the pods give a nice bright flavour, along with a good amount of vapour, and that’s all we really look for in a vape so I will certainly be keeping this one close to me for a while and will also be looking out for what Aspire do next.

You can buy this cracking pod kit at TECC for a reduced price right now. They’re selling it for £17.49, which is an absolute steal. Pods are £4,99 for a pack of 2.

Pros

Touchscreen is so responsive
Aesthetic options galore
Vape is lovely

Cons

Can’t stand up straight

Stephen Gitsham

Reviewer at POTV

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I was a very militant smoker for many years…why would I stop doing the only thing I had left that I liked doing? Then I fell into vaping in 2017. My wife bought a cheap kit off from Amazon that stopped working and I took it to a local vape shop to see what they could do with it. An hour later and full of new knowledge about watts, ohms, and juice strength, I headed home with a new nautilus mini tank for her and raved to her about the helpful guy in the shop. I must have bored her with all my new found information. I tried her vape that night, and a week later bought my own kit. Then I found POTV and the amazingly helpful and generous people on it. A month later I was making my own (disgusting) vape juice, and a month after that I was winding coils for my new RDA. Six years on and I'm much better at making juice, and I now have no money but lots of shiny mods and tanks