I don't know about you, but if my flashlight doesn't have 13 or 14 or 15 modes that I'll never use and I'm not a happy camper
Of course I'm being sarcastic. I hate when a flashlight has more than two modes because they're never used and I always have to cycle through them to get to the mode that I want to get the unit to turn off and it really irritates me. It bothers me because it also allows the sellers to put something like "15 in one flashlight" or something equally stupid. You do not have to worry about that with this. It has an on button which doubles as an off button. That is it.
I'm a huge fan of that. The next thing I'd like to mention that I love is the little flashlight that comes with this.
I'm in love with this little flashlight. It's got a nice display on it, which tells you the exact percentage of the battery, which is kind of important for something that you keep on your keychain because you never know if you need to charge it or not. Just being able to tap it once and see how much battery you have left will easily help you know when you need to charge it.
Unfortunately the little one has multiple modes but it's done very tastefully. You can hold the button and change from warm light to cool light or you can press it and get a flashing strobe light, which I guess is not that horrible of a feature to have but if you ask me nobody ever uses that either
Now the thing about the battery life that I don't really understand is why somebody would be disappointed in a 2.5-hour lifespan of an extremely high beam
If you ask me, being able to turn on a flashlight and get full use for two and a half hours straight, that, to me, is a feature that you're not going to find in a lot of flashlights. That's unheard of. On top of it if you happen to get 12 more hours of a beam that gradually dims, that is also a feature and should not be viewed as a flaw. That's made well if you ask me. Think about that.
You get 2.5 hours of 100% fully-on all the way high beam... You couldn't do that with hardly any devices these days. A flashlight two hours is unheard of. The fact that you get an extra 10 to 12 hours afterwards where it's still staying on but dimming? That's brilliant! In fact as it starts to dim now, you know you got to charge it. It's like an indicator.
Anybody that says otherwise, I don't think, is really thinking it through. I refuse to think of that as a flaw and if you ask me, I would give it six stars because of that.
I have some seriously expensive flashlights and some seriously powerful flashlights that I didn't pay a lot for but are every bit as powerful as they claim to be. I don't think I could run any one of them for two and a half hours straight on high. Yes they're much more powerful than this flashlight but I'm not getting two hours out of them, I promise you. Much less 10 or 12 hours. Don't get me wrong, I have some flashlights that will go that long but they're primarily batteries with an LED attached to them as opposed to an LED powered by a battery, if you catch my drift
Anyway it comes with everything it needs, just like any other flashlight, so I won't really bother talking about the cables or any of that nonsense. It's a flashlight and that's the only thing you care about. It works and it's one button for on and the same button for off. No modes in between. You cannot focus it but the way the beam comes out I think you don't really need to. You get a beam as well as a flood so I don't think you really need to worry about focusing it.
I couldn't be happier with this flashlight. I really couldn't. The fact that it comes with a cute little itty-bitty cute-as-a-bug's-ear flashlight is just icing and gravy on top. Sometimes I like gravy on my icing, so what? I'm not some weirdo that likes icing on my gravy. I just like gravy on my icing. So what?