Manafont offers new Trustfire 18650 - in grey (I know this grey). On other pictures I notice the NCR18650 (which have the Panasonic 2900mAh).
I think, this is the first time, Trustfire batteries use high quality cells and show it.
“Trustfire $17,94 for a pair”: www.manafont.com/product_info.php/trustfire-18650-rechargeable-liion-batteries-protected-2pcsset-p-11796?rp=161376
saw those today too…wonder if the circuit is decent? it’s nice to see all the budget companies stepping up their game as of late…
Almost reposted this, glad I did a quick search first… This is great!
The NCR18650 (2900mAh) are getting old on the market, old production stocks should be available, etc, so why not Trustfire get some Panasonic in they lineup.
I was about to say the same.
Very old stock is available to them that’s why.
Maybe, but think about:
Many people buy Sanyo 2600 or batteries, which use this cells. But the 2800/3000 mAh Sanyo are also available (ok 4,3V). Are all 2600mAh old stock - I don’t even think so.
Maybe Trustfire wants to upgrade the battery line with new 2900 Panasonics?
Interesting. By the way, the link above is not correct. Here it is corrected: Trustfire $17,94 for a pair.
EDIT - link in the O.P. is fine now. Perhaps it was something going on with BLF going down due to server issues and changes that were being made (though I don't understand why). Oh well.
-Garry
Get some now. In six months, there will be counterfeits everywhere like every other *fire battery. The Trustfire Flames at least had holograms, which were somewhat difficult to copy. And we all know how well those holograms prevented counterfeiting.
These are just a gray label. Anyone with a $500 pad printing machine can churn out thousands of printed shrink tubes an hour using readily available gray shrink tube and then slap on the clear tube … at least it looks like that’s what they’re doing. Whatever it is, it’s simple to copy. Slap the copied labels on the worst li-ion cells available, and …. Well, you know the rest. 
This out-of-control counterfeiting is so annoying. So TOTALLY annoying. Argggggggh.
But how do we know that you are the real Ubehebe
>>>>But how do we know that you are the real Ubehebe Wink
Drum roll. Cymbal crash!
trustfire might have been using quality cells for a bit now…from the charts i’ve seen the trustfire 3000mah resembles 2800 samsungs…amp for amp they follow each other closely…from the tests i’ve seen I believe the trustfire 3k’s are using samsung 2800’s…the correlations just follow too closely…so maybe this is a trend for trustfire…
if you check this comparison out…choose trustfire 3000mah and samsung 2800…the trustfires seem to have a tad more capacity but voltage sags a bit lower at 5a…
http://lygte-info.dk/review/batteries2012/Common18650comparator.php
I’m not sure they didn’t just mix up photos. The photos that show the panasonic model number also have a black band around the positive terminal, which is not present in the Trustfire photos.
That band only appears on that side of the cell, ryanferg 
IOS sells protected NCR18650A 3100mAh for 26 bucks, unprotected for 19.
These TF are NCR18650 only, so maybe they are slightly worse than NCR18650A.
At $18 for pair, why not just spend a little more and get the 18650A newer panasonic? Without worry about old stock?
The 3100’s can be had for a buck or two more than this.