SMOK Novo GT pod kit
Smok have been around long enough to know a thing or two about pod kits, and we got to test out their latest one, the Smok Novo GT pod kit
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The Electronic Cigarette Company (TECC) sent this SMOK Novo GT pod kit over for me to have a bash at.
SMOK have released a lot of kits in their time, and this Smok Novo GT pod is the latest in their Novo line of pod kits. I’ve never tried one of the Novo pod kits as I always went for the Nord instead, so I’ve been quite happy to try this latest one out to see how it compares.
The Novo GT has a 1300mAh internal battery in it and it goes up to 30W. There’s a dual TFT screen that makes for clear, legible information, and it’s both button and auto draw activated so that you can choose your preference. It comes with two different pods, the 0.8ohm that’s installed, and the 0.6ohm one that’s the spare in the kit. There’s an airflow control to let you adjust your draw from tight to lose, and a USB Type C port on the other side to let you charge it standing up.
It's designed well. There’s a solid metal body encasing the whole thing and they’ve stamped a big NOVO GT on the back, but it’s engraved in the same colour as the body of the kit so isn’t hugely intrusive. The bottom of the kit is reasonably thick to house the screens but it tapers at the top, giving a groove to rest your thumb on when you’re taking a draw if you use auto draw activation rather than the button. The adjustment buttons are on the side, it took me a while to find them as they’re a bit wee and are plonked right at the bottom of the body. I was wondering if this was a touch screen as the dual screens are quite big for a pod, but I did eventually find the adjustment buttons after also wondering if this was just a smart set only pod as well. The dual screens do make for nice, legible information as the info isn’t all scrunched into a tiny screen. There is a smart chip in there as well, as it auto sets the wattage for you when you put a pod in, but you can adjust it as well (once you find the adjustment buttons) so it’s not at all restricting.
There aren’t many functions on this kit. You can lock the buttons with three clicks of the fire button. You can reset the puff counter by holding the fire button and the down adjustment one at the same time, and you can change between three themes by hitting the fire and up adjustment buttons at the same time. I preferred the standard theme personally, I just feel it sets out the info nicely and doesn’t bring the dual screen to attention like the others do.
The kit comes with two Novo M pods, 0.8ohms and 0.6ohms respectively. The 0.8ohm pod is in the kit when you open it so you can just pop it out, take off the safety sticker on the bottom, fill it up, then vape away (after leaving for the standard five mins of course). The usual marketing touts the 0.8ohm pod as being best for nic salt juice, but you can use what you want, although a 50/50 ratio is best in this coil as some chain RDL vaping revealed to me that it burrrrrns quite easily. But it’s not for RDL, I just like to see if pods/coils can take that. This one can’t so it’s strictly MTL and 50/50 juice from now on if I get some more of the 0.8ohm pods.
The 0.6ohm pod is a lot more forgiving for my style of vaping. The marketing is touting 50/50, standard nic juice but 70/30 worked well enough, even with a bit of RDL puffing, and the 50/50 nic salt I used in it was a dream for RDL as well as a nice loose MTL, giving some really good flavour and a nice amount of vapour to boot.
Conclusion
I find it hard to review pod kits sometimes as they all get very similar, but SMOK have done well to combine a lot of the features that most of the ‘pro’ pod kits have these days, as well as adding their own spin with the dual screen to make things easier to see and convey all the information a larger mod would usually provide you with. The info’s also bright and easy to see so it’s a good choice for someone who has slight sight issues.
The smart wattage setting function doesn’t intrude and that’s something I like. A lot of kits will give you a set range these days, but this one allows you free reign, while also giving new users a guide to start off from.
Overall, the Novo GT pod kit is a great starter kit, as well as a good run about kit for people like me. I have been mainly using it for MTL myself, but the odd RDL draw isn’t out of the question, and it does a nicely restricted RDL quite consistently with the 0.6ohm pod installed.
Thanks again to TECC for letting me loose on the Smok Novo GT pod kit. You can buy it from them for £22.99 and they’ll even throw in three free e-liquids.
- Easy to read screens
- Auto wattage doesn’t restrict
- Airflow goes pretty tight
- Didn’t find one
Stephen Gitsham
Reviewer at POTVI 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
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