What a nice treat this light was. It came in a pretty low-key and unassuming box, and the light and other accoutrements were in a clear plastic tray inside. In the box was the light itself, manual-sheet, lanyard, usb cable, and spare set of O-rings. Lanyard, cable, and O-rings are exactly as you’d imagine, so I don’t need to go into details.
The light itself was immediately impressive. It was a nice dark charcoal-gray semi-gloss ano, which is a nice change from Basic Black. Button and clip are a contrasting black. The clip is bidirectional and gloss black, and is fairly deep-carry, so doesn’t leave half the light sticking out of your pocket. I’m generally not a fan of clips and usually immediately remove them if they’re already attached to the light, and bidirectional clips just add height with the double-bend, but it’s not too obtrusive, so for now I’m leaving it on. It looks kind of nice and is just springy enough without being loose, so who knows, I may grow to like it. 
The size and shape of the light is quite nice. A good size for an AA-sized light, pretty grippy given the light knurling and some notches along the way, and still easy to work the rear switch without having to fidget with the light. It’s not a “sleek” design but not “busy”, either. It scores a nice balance between the two. Having a sleek design with minimal knurling, etc., looks great, but can be tricky to work the light if your hands or the light is wet, soapy, greasy, etc. Too much knurling and notching, etc., and it looks like someone’s plumbing project. So this sits nicely in the middle.
The front of the light looks almost as if it has a TIR lens but it’s definitely a small reflector. More on this in a bit…
The switch is a pretty nice and stiff forward-clicky, is, momentary-on. I loooooove forward-clickies for precisely that, a momentary-on beam as to not have to click-on/click-off when you just want a quick blip of light. The only downside is when switching modes, you need to “get used to it”.
Which brings us to the UI, the user-interface. The light has 3 different brightness levels: low, medium, high. Off-then-on advances to the next mode. With a reverse-clicky, or momentary-off when the light’s on, and it’s easy to select the mode you want. With a forward-clicky, you should do that in momentary-on mode until you get the brightness you want, then click-through to keep the light on. Since I got my first forward-clicky light (an XTAR WK50), I got used to it pretty quickly. It helps to come to a preference you want the light to start out in, say, low, and keep it on that low setting unless you want something brighter. By knowing it’s on low, and of course “resetting” to low if you switch to a brighter mode, if you know you want medium, you’ll blip it on low and again to medium, then click through to let it “stick” on medium. Similarly with 2 blips to get to high.
The advantage of having momentary-on, say, to check your watch, to get a quick look down an alley, etc., is worth learning the different way of doing things. I think it takes something like 10sec of the light being off to memorise its mode. That lengthy period lets you switch modes when the light’s on by actually turning it off and then back on again. The downside is that if you want momentary blips, it’ll advance to the next mode if you don’t wait long enough. Fair tradeoff.
The beam itself is a nice wide spot due to the small reflector, so covers a decent area at medium ranges. But that means it’s definitely not a thrower. Which is fine, because most small-light usage will typically be close-range like looking under a desk, in a closet, to around your basement or attic. If you want to see what’s making that howling noise at the opposite end of a field, you’d want a bigger light anyway, if anything, to be able to see what’s about to eat you.
Now, I’ve got the 2AA Pokelite, and while that’s also supposed to be 6500K, it’s a wonderful just-warm-of-neutral color of maybe 4500K, but this light is definitely in the 6000K range, or “white-white”. I was hoping it’d be that warmer shade of white, but it’s not. But it’s definitely not tinged greenish or anything, even when on low mode (where lots of LEDs “go green”). So there’s nothing objectionable to the beam. No weird artifacts, etc., just a pretty clean hotspot with some spill off to the sides.
Now, the light includes a 14500 cell that has built-in charging, so it’s likely a 14430 cell with a few mm for the charging circuit. It has its micro-usb port for charging, and LED in the cap which shows red when charging and green when fully charged. It’s labeled 920mAH, and clocked in at 842mAH/849mAH on my Opus at 500mA testing current. That’s within 10%, so I’m fine with it.
The switch is nice and firm, so it shouldn’t accidentally turn on in your pocket unless you really smash it. The 2AA’s switch, to me, had some issues, but this newer incarnation seems to have fixed everything quite nicely. The button sits proud, with no irritating thumb-guards to dig into your finger if you don’t position your thumb perfectly, etc. You can hit the switch from any angle and reliably turn it on when you want to.
So all in all, it’s quite nicely done up. My only suggestion to improve it would be to make the color-temp a bit warmer like my 2AA has, which again is more like 4500K than 6500K. Beyond that… I can’t think of any shortcomings that would scream “fix me!!”.
