Strawberry Ice Vape

What this shelf covers, and what it deliberately leaves out

Strawberry ice is a narrow brief. Red fruit, a cooling agent, and nothing crowding the middle. No cream, no candy shell, no soda fizz, no tropical third fruit muscling in on the exhale. All eight products here hold to that boundary, which makes the shelf easy to compare and easy to misjudge at the same time, because the products differ from each other in small ways rather than obvious ones.

Four items run the single-berry recipe. The IVG PRO 10K Strawberry Ice Vape Kit and the matching IVG PRO 10K Strawberry Ice Prefilled Pod describe themselves as sweet strawberry blended with menthol, and the menthol is stated plainly rather than hidden behind the word "ice". The IVG SMART MAX Strawberry Ice Vape Kit and the IVG SMART MAX Strawberry Ice Refill Pod work to the same basic description but frame the cold as a crisp finish rather than a menthol one. Whether that is a genuine recipe difference or a difference in how the two ranges were written up is not something a spec sheet will settle for you, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise. What is certain is the hardware underneath, and that does change what you taste.

The other four add raspberry. On PRO hardware that is the IVG PRO 10K Strawberry Raspberry Ice Vape Kit with the IVG PRO 10K Strawberry Raspberry Ice Prefilled Pod behind it. On the newest platform it is the IVG NEXiO Strawberry Raspberry Ice Vape Kit and the IVG NEXiO Strawberry Raspberry Ice Refill Pod. In both cases the raspberry is doing a structural job rather than a headline one. It supplies acidity the strawberry does not have on its own, and the effect lands mostly on the back half of the exhale.

Several nearby things are not on this shelf, and knowing what they are saves a wasted scroll. Strawberry with no cooling at all lives on the uncooled Strawberry Vape shelf, which is where to go if menthol is the part you want removed. Raspberry standing alone, or paired with something other than strawberry, sits under the raspberry shelf. Blue raspberry is a separate flavour family despite sharing a word, and it is not represented here. Nothing on this shelf pairs strawberry with cream, yoghurt, custard or wafer. There is no bottled liquid and no shortfill, because all eight items are sealed pod products rather than anything you decant. And there are no single-use devices at all: every platform here recharges and takes replacement pods, which is why the two full kits appear under Disposable Vape Alternatives.

The shelf also nests inside several larger ones. All eight sit on Ice Vape, the parent shelf for everything IVG cools, and all eight are listed at 20mg nicotine salt, which places the whole set on 20mg Vape Kits & Refill Pods. The four pods that ship without a device are filed under IVG Prefilled Pods. Four of the eight are recent enough to count as new arrivals. Four carry raspberry and so are cross-listed on the raspberry shelf as well. One quiet detail worth flagging: the Strawberry Ice pod for the PRO is the only item on this shelf offered in more than one nicotine strength. It is listed at 0mg, 10mg and 20mg. Every other product here, kit or pod, is 20mg only.

Price behaves simply. There is nothing between £7.95 and £10.95 and nothing outside it. Every pod on the shelf is £7.95 and every kit is £10.95, across all three platforms and both flavours. That flatness is unusual and it is useful, because it means price tells you only one thing here: whether a device is in the box.

Why cold strawberry is harder to build than it looks

Strawberry is one of the most requested fruit flavours and one of the most awkward to cool. It is worth understanding why, because the reason explains the shape of this entire shelf, including why half of it has a second berry bolted on.

The recognisable signal in strawberry is narrow. Most of what the palate reads as "strawberry" rather than "generic red sweet" sits in a small band of light, volatile aroma compounds, supported underneath by a rounder, slightly creamy base and a faint green note near the top. Remove the green and the fruit goes flat and boiled-sweet. Remove the round base and it turns thin and artificial. The band you have to hit is tight, and it is easily buried.

Cooling agents bury it in two different ways. Menthol is the traditional choice and it is not neutral: alongside the cold sensation it carries its own aroma, which is minty with a camphorous, faintly resinous edge. Put enough of that over a red berry and the combination stops reading as cold fruit and starts reading as fruit with mint on top. The second route is a coolant with far less aroma of its own, which solves the mint problem but creates another one. Cold without aroma still suppresses sweetness perception and still numbs part of the palate, so the fruit loses definition without anything replacing it. The blend goes quiet rather than cold-and-bright.

The specific failure people describe as "soapy" comes from the interaction between the cooling and the base of the strawberry. Cooling agents stretch the finish. A flavour that would have cleared the palate in a second or two instead hangs around for four or five, and the part that hangs around longest is the heavy, rounded base rather than the bright top. Held that long, a creamy-fruit base stops reading as fruit and starts reading as something waxy. That is why a strawberry ice can taste completely correct on the inhale and slightly like hand cream three seconds after you exhale. It is not the strawberry going wrong. It is the strawberry being held on the palate longer than it was designed to survive.

There are two sensible fixes and this shelf uses both. The first is to pull the strawberry towards the juicy, jammy end of the fruit and away from the creamy end, then keep the coolant short and sharp rather than deep and lingering. That is what the plain Strawberry Ice products are doing: less base, less to overstay, a finish that clears. The trade is that a short cold finish reads as less intense, and people who want their ice to hit hard sometimes find single-berry strawberry ice restrained.

The second fix is to give the palate something acidic to hold onto on the exhale, so attention lands there instead of on the fading base. Raspberry does this well. It is tarter than strawberry, its own aroma sits higher and drier, and crucially it survives cold better because its character is less dependent on those heavy base notes. That is the whole logic of Strawberry Raspberry Ice. The raspberry is not there to make the blend taste of raspberry. It is there to hold the back end together while the cold does its work.

Hardware pushes on the same problem from the other side. Vapour temperature changes how much cold you perceive and how much of the fruit's base survives the trip. A coil running slightly warmer volatilises more of the heavy base material, which reads sweeter and rounder and slightly less icy. A coil running drier and tighter delivers less of that base and lets the top notes and the coolant dominate. The two resistance figures published for pods on this shelf are 1.0 ohm for the NEXiO pod and 0.8 ohm for the SMART MAX pod, and at comparable power the 0.8 ohm pod pulls the looser and warmer of the two. That single difference is enough to move the same nominal flavour noticeably, which is the honest reason two products described almost identically can taste unlike each other in the hand.

Nicotine salt adds one more layer. At 20mg there is a background character to salt nicotine, slightly peppery and slightly drying, and on a cold blend it sits in roughly the same part of the finish that the coolant occupies. The effect is small but it is real, and it is one reason the same recipe at a lower strength can read as more open and more obviously fruity. That option only exists on one product here, the PRO Strawberry Ice pod, which is listed at 0mg and 10mg as well as 20mg.

Four honest groups, and who each one is for

Eight products, three platforms, two recipes. The most useful way to cut it is by what you are actually deciding between, so here are four groups plus one cross-cut that applies to all of them.

Group one: plain strawberry on the PRO, the reference point

The IVG PRO 10K Strawberry Ice Vape Kit and the IVG PRO 10K Strawberry Ice Prefilled Pod are the oldest pairing on the shelf and the most literal reading of the brief. The description says strawberry blended with menthol and that is what it delivers: sweet fruit on the inhale, a menthol edge arriving late, a finish that clears reasonably quickly. It is not the coldest thing here and it does not try to be.

This is the group to pick if you want the flavour to be recognisably strawberry first and cold second. It is also the only place on this shelf where nicotine strength is a choice rather than a given, since the pod is stocked at 0mg, 10mg and 20mg while the kit ships at 20mg. If that flexibility matters, this group is effectively your only option, which is worth knowing before you fall for one of the others. The pod is cross-listed on both IVG PRO 10K Prefilled Pods and the PRO 2 10K range, which is a useful signal about which bodies it will seat in.

Group two: plain strawberry on the SMART MAX, same brief, different machine

The IVG SMART MAX Strawberry Ice Vape Kit and the IVG SMART MAX Strawberry Ice Refill Pod aim at the same flavour target, described as juicy strawberry with a crisp cooling finish. Put honestly: blind, most people would find it hard to separate this from the PRO version on flavour description alone. Where they part company is the hardware, and on this shelf the hardware is not a footnote.

The SMART MAX pod runs a 0.8 ohm mesh coil, which is the loosest and warmest of the published figures here. Warmer vapour on a cold fruit softens the menthol edge and brings the sweetness forward. On top of that the device carries a display showing battery percentage, charging progress and mode, and it switches between an Eco setting and a Boost setting. That matters more than a spec-sheet novelty, because moving between Eco and Boost changes vapour temperature, and on a strawberry ice that changes the balance between fruit and cold within a single pod. If you like the idea of nudging the same liquid warmer or drier depending on the hour, this is the only group on the shelf that lets you. The device weighs around 90g with a plastic chassis and a metallic-style finish, and both items sit on the SMART MAX range shelf.

Group three: strawberry raspberry on the PRO, the tart revision

The IVG PRO 10K Strawberry Raspberry Ice Vape Kit and the IVG PRO 10K Strawberry Raspberry Ice Prefilled Pod take the platform you already know and change the liquid. Strawberry still leads, warm and sweet on the inhale, but raspberry arrives underneath it with a sharper, tangier character and the icy finish closes over both. The back end has more grip than the single-berry version and the whole thing reads slightly less sweet overall, even though nothing has been taken out.

Pick this group if you liked the PRO body but found plain Strawberry Ice a touch soft in the finish, or if you are the sort of vaper who loses interest in a flavour after a week because it never surprises you. The raspberry gives the blend a second thing to do. It is also the natural pick if you already own a PRO device and only want the £7.95 pod, since swapping recipe without swapping hardware costs you nothing but the pod. Both items are on the PRO range shelf and both are recent arrivals.

Group four: strawberry raspberry on the NEXiO, newest hardware, smallest pod

The IVG NEXiO Strawberry Raspberry Ice Vape Kit and the IVG NEXiO Strawberry Raspberry Ice Refill Pod carry the same flavour brief as group three on a different body, and this is where the specifications diverge most sharply from the rest of the shelf.

The NEXiO device is aluminium rather than plastic, measures 28 by 28 by 125 mm, and has no buttons and no settings at all. It is draw-activated, with an LED battery indicator and nothing to configure. The 1000mAh battery charges over Type-C in roughly 90 minutes from flat, according to the manufacturer. The pod runs a 1.0 ohm mesh coil, which is the tightest and driest figure published across this shelf, and it uses a lozenge-shaped mouthpiece rather than a round one. On a strawberry raspberry blend that combination favours the raspberry: a drier, tighter draw carries less of the strawberry's heavy base and lets the tart edge and the cold sit further forward.

The capacity difference is the one to actually register. A NEXiO pod is a 2ml chamber fed by an 8ml reservoir, 10ml in total. The PRO and SMART MAX pods are a 2ml pod plus a 10ml container, 12ml in total. All of them are rated by the manufacturer at up to 10,000 puffs per pod, which is a laboratory estimate rather than a promise, but the arithmetic is still worth noticing: the NEXiO carries the same rating over 2ml less liquid. Treat all three ratings as approximate and compare the millilitres instead. The kit ships with a red device, and both items sit on the NEXiO range shelf.

The cross-cut: £10.95 kits against £7.95 pods

Every group above contains one of each, and the logic is the same in all four cases. The kit is the device plus a pod plus the refill container and the manual. The pod is the pod and the container without the device. Nothing else changes, and the liquid is the same in both. So the £3 gap buys a battery, a chassis and a charging port, once.

Buy the kit when you do not already own that specific platform, or when you want a second body so one can charge while the other is in use. Buy the pod when the matching device is already in a drawer. The one mistake to avoid is buying a pod to suit a device from a different platform, which is covered in detail below because it is the single most common misstep on a shelf like this one. All four pods, incidentally, are gathered together on IVG Prefilled Pods if you want to see them without the kits in the way.

Choosing between them without overthinking it

There are really only four decisions on this shelf, and they are worth taking in order.

Do you already own one of these three devices?

If so, this question settles almost everything and the rest of the page is confirmation. A PRO owner is choosing between two pods, the Strawberry Ice prefilled pod and the Strawberry Raspberry Ice prefilled pod, both at £7.95. A SMART MAX owner has exactly one option on this shelf, the SMART MAX Strawberry Ice Refill Pod, because the raspberry variant has not been produced for that platform. A NEXiO owner likewise has one, the NEXiO Strawberry Raspberry Ice Refill Pod. If you own nothing yet, read on.

One berry or two?

This is the genuine flavour decision and everything else is secondary to it. Single-berry Strawberry Ice is sweeter, rounder and more straightforward. It reads as one idea, executed directly, and the cold arrives as a finish rather than a feature. Strawberry Raspberry Ice is tarter across the second half, has more definition on the exhale, and holds up better over a long day precisely because it is less uniformly sweet. Neither is better. They fail in different directions: the single berry can go flat and samey by the third day, the double berry can read slightly sharp if tartness is not what you came for.

A practical tiebreaker. If your current all-day flavour is a plain fruit and you are looking for more of the same in a colder form, take the single berry. If you rotate between two or three flavours and get bored quickly, take the double. And if you are unsure and want to hedge, the £7.95 pods let you own both recipes for less than the price of two kits, provided they are both for a platform you already have, which in practice means the PRO.

Warm and sweet, or dry and cold?

The published coil resistances give you a real lever here. The 0.8 ohm mesh coil in the SMART MAX pod is the looser, warmer draw and pushes the blend towards sweetness. The 1.0 ohm mesh coil in the NEXiO pod is the tighter, drier draw and pushes the same style of blend towards the cold and the tart edge. Both are restricted mouth-to-lung, so neither is a loose airy draw in absolute terms, but between them there is a clear difference in resistance and in how the vapour lands.

If you want the option of both from one device rather than committing, the SMART MAX kit is the only product here with switchable Eco and Boost modes, which is the closest thing on this shelf to adjusting the balance after purchase. That is a stronger argument for it than anything in its flavour description.

Does anything else about the device matter to you?

Three small things separate the bodies and any of them can decide it. Build: the NEXiO is aluminium, the SMART MAX is a plastic chassis with a metallic-style finish at around 90g, and the PRO is described simply as compact and pocketable. Information: the SMART MAX has a display with battery percentage and mode, the NEXiO has an LED indicator only, and the PRO sits between them. Simplicity: the NEXiO is draw-activated with no buttons and nothing to set, which some people will read as a limitation and others as the entire point.

Capacity is the fourth, and it is the one people forget. Two of the three platforms give you 12ml of liquid per purchase and one gives you 10ml, at the same £7.95. If cost per millilitre is how you think, the PRO and SMART MAX pods are the better arithmetic, and and that is the number to weigh rather than the puff rating.

Formats, coils and what genuinely fits what

Three pod systems appear on this shelf and none of them accepts another's pods. That is worth stating flatly, because all three use a broadly similar 2ml chamber plus a bulk container, which makes them look more interchangeable than they are. The pod bodies, the connections and the seating are specific to each device.

The PRO and SMART MAX use the same general approach. You buy a 2ml prefilled pod together with a 10ml refill container. Push the pod into the container and it fills itself, click it closed, slide it into the device. When the pod runs low you repeat that with the same container. A 10ml container against a 2ml pod means five further fills after the one that arrives prefilled, so six pod-loads in total per £7.95 purchase, assuming you use the container down to the last of it. That is the practical meaning of the 12ml figure, and it is a more useful number than a puff rating because it does not depend on how you vape.

The NEXiO does something different enough that it is easy to misread. The 2ml prefilled pod and the 8ml container connect to form a single assembled 10ml unit, with the reservoir feeding the chamber as you go, rather than you performing a refill cycle by hand each time. Functionally you assemble it once and then use it. That is the more convenient arrangement of the two and it comes at the cost of the 2ml, which is a fair trade and worth taking on its own terms rather than as a defect. The NEXiO pod is a closed, sealed system: it is not designed to be opened or topped up with your own liquid, and nothing on this shelf is.

Coils are built into the pods on all three platforms and are not separately replaceable. Every pod here uses mesh. The published resistances are 1.0 ohm for the NEXiO and 0.8 ohm for the SMART MAX. When the coil is spent the pod is spent, which is the whole economic logic of these systems: the device is the durable part and the pod is the consumable. That is also why the kits and the pods are priced only £3 apart. You are meant to buy one device and many pods.

Draw style is consistent. All three are restricted mouth-to-lung, meaning a narrow intake into the mouth first, then inhaled, rather than a wide-open direct draw. None of these platforms is built for a loose airy pull and none of them offers adjustable airflow. If a restricted draw is not what you want, this shelf as a whole is not the right place to be looking, and that is better said now than in a review.

Batteries are all 1000mAh with Type-C charging. The NEXiO's charge time is quoted at roughly 90 minutes from empty. Cables are not always included, so check before assuming. Devices on these platforms are covered more broadly under IVG Vapes, and the two products here carrying the larger-capacity framing also appear on Big Puff Vapes.

One last compatibility note that saves money. PRO pods are cross-listed against the IVG PRO 2 10K Range as well as the original PRO, so a PRO-family pod is the most broadly useful of the three to own if you have more than one body in circulation. NEXiO and SMART MAX pods are single-platform. Buy accordingly.

Price, pack contents and what the spread reflects

Two prices, no others. £7.95 for a pod and container, £10.95 for the same pod and container with a device in the box. That holds across all three platforms and both recipes, which is genuinely unusual on a flavour shelf and makes the maths straightforward.

What the £7.95 buys differs slightly by platform. On the PRO Strawberry Ice pod and the PRO Strawberry Raspberry Ice pod it is 12ml of liquid across a 2ml pod and a 10ml container. The SMART MAX Strawberry Ice pod is the same 12ml split the same way, with an instruction manual in the box. The NEXiO Strawberry Raspberry Ice pod is 10ml, as a 2ml pod and an 8ml reservoir that join together. So the same money buys 20 per cent more liquid on two of the three platforms.

The £10.95 kits add the device and, in the NEXiO's case, user instructions and a red aluminium body, with a Type-C cable not included. If you are starting a platform from scratch, paying £3 once for the hardware and £7.95 thereafter is the intended pattern, and after the first purchase the ongoing cost is identical whichever platform you chose. That is the clearest argument for choosing on flavour and draw rather than on price: the price stops mattering after the first order.

Nothing on this shelf is a multipack and nothing is bundled. Each listing is a single pod or a single kit. If you want a longer view of how IVG prices pods across the whole brand rather than just this flavour, the brand-wide prefilled pod shelf is the one to compare against, filtered to this strength.

Where to go next

If the cold is the part you are enjoying and the strawberry is negotiable, Ice Vape is the parent shelf and holds every cooled flavour IVG makes, including the berry blends, the citrus ones and the straight menthols. It is the natural next step from here and by some distance the largest neighbour.

Wanting the strawberry without the menthol points the other way entirely, and Strawberry Vape collects the uncooled versions. Raspberry Vape is where to look if the raspberry half of Strawberry Raspberry Ice turned out to be the part you kept reaching for.

For hardware-led browsing rather than flavour-led, each platform has its own shelf. The IVG PRO Range and the closely related IVG PRO 2 10K Range cover the widest flavour selection of the three. IVG SMART MAX is the one with the display and the Eco and Boost modes. IVG NEXiO is the newest and the smallest catalogue so far.

Two more shelves are worth a look depending on how you got here. IVG New Products tracks what has arrived recently, which is where the raspberry blends on this shelf turned up. Disposable Vape Alternatives collects the rechargeable, pod-replaceable devices in one place. And the full IVG range is there when none of the shelves is cutting it.

Before you pick

The short version of this whole page: decide the recipe first, then the platform, then whether you need the device. Single-berry Strawberry Ice is the sweeter and more direct of the two, available on the PRO and the SMART MAX. Strawberry Raspberry Ice is tarter and holds its shape better across a long day, available on the PRO and the NEXiO. Pods cost £7.95 on every platform and kits cost £10.95 on every platform, so the only price question is whether the device is already yours.

If you want the most flexibility for the money, a PRO body plus both PRO pods gives you two recipes and three nicotine strengths on one device. If you want the least to think about, the NEXiO kit has no buttons and no settings. If you want to move the flavour warmer or drier yourself, the SMART MAX kit is the only one here that will let you. Those three sentences cover most of the shelf.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between Strawberry Ice and Strawberry Raspberry Ice?

Strawberry Ice is a single red fruit with a cooling finish. It is sweeter, rounder and more direct, and the cold arrives at the end rather than running through the whole draw. Strawberry Raspberry Ice keeps the strawberry in front but adds raspberry underneath it, which brings tartness and acidity to the exhale. The result is less uniformly sweet and has more definition on the back half. Four products here carry each recipe, so the choice is available on more than one platform either way.

Are the IVG PRO and IVG SMART MAX versions of Strawberry Ice the same liquid?

They are written up slightly differently. The PRO version names menthol explicitly, while the SMART MAX version describes a crisp cooling finish. Whether that reflects a genuine recipe change or only a difference in how the two ranges were described is not something the published specifications settle. What does differ for certain is the hardware. The SMART MAX pod runs a 0.8 ohm mesh coil and the device has Eco and Boost modes, both of which change vapour temperature, and vapour temperature changes how sweet and how cold the same liquid reads.

Will a NEXiO pod fit an IVG PRO or a SMART MAX device?

No. The three platforms on this shelf use different pods and none of them accepts another's. They look similar because all three pair a 2ml chamber with a bulk container, but the pod bodies and the way they seat in the device are specific to each range. A NEXiO pod only fits a NEXiO device, a SMART MAX pod only fits a SMART MAX, and PRO pods fit the PRO family. Check which device you own before ordering a pod on its own.

How much liquid do I actually get for £7.95?

It depends on the platform. The PRO and SMART MAX pods are 12ml in total, made up of a 2ml prefilled pod plus a 10ml refill container, which works out as the prefilled load plus five further fills. The NEXiO pod is 10ml in total, a 2ml chamber plus an 8ml reservoir that attach to form one assembled unit. Same price, 2ml difference, so the PRO and SMART MAX pods are the better value per millilitre if that is how you are counting.

Why does the NEXiO hold less liquid but carry the same puff rating?

All three platforms are rated by the manufacturer at up to 10,000 puffs per pod. Those figures are laboratory estimates produced under controlled conditions rather than measurements of ordinary use, and they are not directly comparable between different coils and different draw characteristics. Since the NEXiO pod holds 10ml and the other two hold 12ml, the millilitre figure is the more reliable basis for comparison. Treat the puff numbers as a rough manufacturer indication and nothing more precise than that.

Can I buy Strawberry Ice or Strawberry Raspberry Ice below 20mg?

One product on this shelf offers more than one strength. The IVG PRO 10K Strawberry Ice Prefilled Pod is listed at 0mg, 10mg and 20mg. Every other item here, kit or pod, single berry or double, is 20mg nicotine salt only. So if a lower strength or a nicotine-free option matters to you, the PRO Strawberry Ice pod is currently the only route to it within this flavour shelf, and it requires a PRO-family device.

Is the kit worth £3 more than the pod?

The kit contains the same pod and the same refill container as the standalone listing, plus the device and the printed instructions. So the £3 is entirely the hardware and you pay it once. If you do not own that platform, the kit is the only sensible starting point. If the device is already in a drawer, the pod on its own is the same liquid for less. Some people buy a second kit deliberately so one device can charge while the other is in use, which is a reasonable use of £10.95.

Why do some strawberry ice flavours taste slightly soapy at the end?

Cooling agents stretch the finish of a flavour, holding it on the palate for several seconds longer than it would otherwise sit. The part that lingers longest is the heavy, rounded base of the strawberry rather than the bright top note, and a creamy fruit base held that long stops reading as fruit and starts reading as waxy. It is a known difficulty with cold red fruit specifically. Blends that lean juicy rather than creamy, or that add an acidic second berry, tend to avoid it, which is part of why the raspberry versions exist.

What does the 0.8 ohm coil change compared with the 1.0 ohm one?

Lower resistance at comparable power means a warmer, slightly looser draw. Warmer vapour carries more of a flavour's heavier base material, so the same blend tends to read sweeter, rounder and a little less icy. The 1.0 ohm coil in the NEXiO pod is the tighter and drier of the two published figures, which pushes the cooling and the tart edge further forward. Neither is better in the abstract. It depends whether you want the fruit or the cold leading.

What are the Eco and Boost modes on the SMART MAX for?

They change the power the device delivers to the coil. Eco runs lower, which extends battery life between charges, and Boost runs higher, which produces more vapour. On a cold fruit blend the practical effect is a shift in balance: the higher setting reads warmer and sweeter, the lower setting reads drier and more restrained. It is the only adjustment available anywhere on this shelf, so the SMART MAX is the one device here that lets you move the flavour after you have bought it.

Can I refill these pods with my own e-liquid?

No. All three systems here are closed and prefilled. The pod arrives sealed with liquid in it, and the container it comes with holds the same liquid for topping the pod back up. There is no fill port for third-party liquid and the pods are not designed to be opened. When the liquid and the container are finished, the pod is replaced. If bottled liquid is what you want, this is the wrong shelf entirely.

How long do these devices take to charge?

All three platforms use a 1000mAh battery with Type-C charging. IVG quotes roughly 90 minutes from empty to full for the NEXiO. Figures are not published in the same detail for the other two, so treat 90 minutes as an indication of the order of magnitude rather than a specification that applies across the shelf. Worth noting that a charging cable is not always in the box, the NEXiO kit being one case where it is explicitly excluded, so check what you already have.

Which of these is the coldest?

No published figure ranks coolant level across these products, so anyone claiming a definitive order is guessing. What can be said is that the driest and tightest draw on the shelf is the 1.0 ohm NEXiO pod, and a drier draw tends to make cooling feel more prominent because less of the fruit's heavy base is coming through to soften it. The warmest and sweetest-reading setup is the SMART MAX on Boost. Those are hardware effects rather than recipe differences, but they are the ones you will notice.

I own a PRO device. Which pods on this shelf can I use?

Two of them: the PRO Strawberry Ice pod and the PRO Strawberry Raspberry Ice pod, both £7.95. Both are also cross-listed against the PRO 2 10K range, so a PRO-family pod is the most broadly usable of the three types on this shelf if you have more than one body in circulation. The SMART MAX and NEXiO pods will not fit. Owning a PRO also means you are the only group here with a choice of recipe without buying more hardware.