I've been happy with the 510, but, after playing around with Gremlin's Blu for a couple of days, I wanted something like it. Research led me to the M401, and LiteCigUSA.net. I heard good things about the 401, and great things about the customer service at LiteCigUSA.

I wanted to try the Dragon, which is advertised over at the blucigforum, but I never got a reply to the email I sent. The guy over at LiteCigUSA responded very, very quickly. Also, his kits were a better value -- cheaper, with more stuff in it. I went for the hybrid kit.

One M401 battery, one M402 battery, two atomisers [one with a silver band, and one with a gold -- not sure if that's significant].

And it's in stainless steel. Which I thought was pretty. And much easier to find among all my black.

It's all very nicely packaged in this spiffy little box with a magnetic latchy thing. I'm using it to keep everything together now.

The charger is USB, and it comes with a little adapter for plugging it into a regular electrical outlet. It's funny -- I've been wanting one of those USB to wall adapters forever, and now I've got three in the house from various things.

...and I thought this was funny. If you can't see it, here's what it says:

No pollution • no flame • nonflammable • no electromagnetic radiation • no carbon monoxide • no ignition

Nice to know. Y'know, about the electromagnetic radiation.

And, if you're wondering, the manual is very, very funny.

Then there was this. This was kinda...disappointing. The reason I didn't want to order until I heard back from someone was because I wanted to see if it was possible to get blank cartridges instead of Marlboro, since I'm really not fond of even the smell of real Marlboro cigarettes. Shawn at LiteCig said it was [much like the guy at MidwestVapor], so that [along with the price and contents of the kit] kinda swayed me to purchasing from there.

It was fine, though. I emailed him again, thanking him for the fast shipping, and letting him know that everything was working out okay, and asking if there'd been a problem after all with switching the Marlboro for blanks. He replied [again, promptly] saying that he must've forgotten, and immediately sent me a tracking number. Because he was sending me blank cartridges.

They arrived yesterday. There are ten of them. Ten.

And, yes, I know that they're probably the cheapest possible item in the store -- anyone running one of these businesses probably orders them in bulk, getting them for, at most, fifty cents each. But it was just...nice. Very nice.

That's the website in the background. I figured, since it'd probably be a crappy picture anyway, I might as well make it an interestingly crappy picture.

So, LiteCigUSA. Great customer service. Good [probably great] prices. I'd shop there again -- I probably will, when the chargers come back in stock. If they had 36mg liquid, I'd really be into them, since e-smokeytreats just discontinued 36mg....

As for the 401, it's nice. I'm using it more than the 510. The batteries seem to last a bit longer, and I may be imagining it, but the flavours seem to come through a bit more. I actually like it as much as I liked the Blu.

I'm not sure what else there is to say about it, so I'll stop here.