30-Second Verdict
The Smono 4 Pro wins — 7.6 to 7.3 — and it costs £4.01 more, which is not a price gap, it's a rounding error with a receipt. The Hammah wins three of the seven categories and still loses the argument, because the three it drops are battery, ease and value, and those are the three you live inside. One of these is a small, intense, glass-lined measure that's gone before you've settled. The other is still going at closing time.
Nordampf Hammah: 7.3/10 | £80.99 Smono 4 Pro: 7.6/10 | £85.00
Buy the Nordampf Hammah if: - Pocket presence is the actual brief — 85.2g, 90mm, barely bigger than an AirPods case - You want a genuine glass path (borosilicate GlassPods), not a glass mouthpiece on a metal chamber - You micro-dose: 0.15–0.2g pods suit short, deliberate, controlled sessions - You'd rather own a nice object than a nice spec sheet — leather, magnetic pods, no plastic creak
Buy the Smono 4 Pro if: - You need it still alive at the end of the day: 3000mAh, 8–12 sessions - You want a 0.25g bowl and a full five-minute session with no timer cutting you off - You want an OLED with real-time degree-by-degree control and a 25-second heat-up - Value decides it — a 9.5 in that category against the Hammah's 7.5
Quick Specs Face-Off:
| Nordampf Hammah | Smono 4 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Heat-up | ~30 seconds | ~25 seconds |
| Battery | 1600mAh sealed, 4–6 sessions | 3000mAh sealed, 8–12 sessions |
| Bowl | ~0.15–0.2g GlassPod | ~0.25g ceramic zirconia |
| Weight | 85.2g | ~145g |
| Session | 3–4.5 min timer | 5 min auto-shutoff |
| Warranty | Standard Nordampf | 3 years |
| Price | £80.99 | £85.00 |
The Hook
There are two ways to drink well in a British pub, and the people who do one rarely respect the people who do the other.
The first is the craft half. Something at 7% with a name like a shipping forecast, served in a half because a pint of it would end you. It's aromatic, it's expensive per millilitre, and it's over quickly. You spend the first two mouthfuls genuinely delighted — there's mango in this, and biscuit, and something like pine — and then it's empty and you're back at the bar, doing sums.
The second is the cask pint. Bitter, mild, whatever's on the handpump, four percent and change, at a price that hasn't moved in three years. Nobody photographs it. Nobody is delighted on mouthful two. But it's still there at the end of the story you're telling, it asks nothing of you, and it cost about the same as the half.
The Nordampf Hammah is the craft half. The Smono 4 Pro is the cask pint. They are both, genuinely, good beer.
I called the Hammah a flask of tea in its own review, and the Smono 4 Pro got the Aldi wine treatment in its. Set both aside — those were arguments each device was having with the rest of the market. Put them opposite each other and a different, better argument starts, because these two are four quid apart, both use hybrid heating, and both scored exactly the same for vapour quality. Everything that separates them is about format: how much, for how long, in what.
One of them scores higher. It's the pint. Here's why the half exists.
We stock both at HerbVape.co.uk — details and pricing below.
Vapour Quality
Both reviews scored this 7.5/10, and — unusually — that's not a fudge. They arrive at the same number from opposite directions.
The Hammah's case is the path. Medical-grade borosilicate between your herb and your lips, hybrid heating behind it, in 85.2 grams. Its review found the glass difference immediately apparent at 190°C: nothing added, no warmth, no contamination, a purity that plastic mouthpieces and some metal paths can't match. At 200°C it hits its stride — three to four draws of real character out of a pod holding under a fifth of a gram. And the pod range is a tuning control rather than a spare-parts list: the long glass pod adds cooling distance and noticeably smoother draws, the short is warmer and more pocketable, the steel trades purity for durability.
The 4 Pro's case is the engine and the chamber. Hybrid heating into ceramic zirconia, and its review's line about that chamber is the one worth keeping: it adds nothing, which is everything. At 180°C the convection pulls terps while the conduction supplies density; at 195°C — the peak — four to five draws of excellent character out of 0.25g, extraction more even than pure conduction manages, no stirring. At 210°C flavour steps back and density peaks, and the hybrid still holds terp presence where conduction loses it entirely.
Peak purity: Hammah, on the strength of the glass. Draws four and five: Smono 4 Pro, because the Hammah hasn't got any left. The Hammah's vapour is cleaner per draw; the 4 Pro's session is a third bigger. Identical score, both earned.
The Strain Test, Side by Side
An honesty note first: the site-wide control pairing — Jack Herer and Wedding Cake, same jars, every device — isn't on either of these cards. The Hammah was run on Biscotti Mintz and Tilray Pakistan Chitral Kush T18, the 4 Pro on Animal Mints and Tilray PT01 T22. What saves the comparison is a coincidence of genetics and supply: Animal Mints is a parent of Biscotti Mintz, so both reviews were chasing the same mint-cookie-diesel structure, and both ran a Tilray medical flower second. Two lap-charts on adjacent circuits, rather than the same one.
The mint-cookie strains put the two formats head-on. The 4 Pro climbed Animal Mints in three stages across a full 0.25g bowl: mint at 175°C (two draws), cookie sweetness at 190°C (four draws, each slightly different), diesel body at 205°C (two to clear) — eight draws, three named layers, where its review found pure conduction compresses the lot into one note. The Hammah ran Biscotti Mintz — the same mint over the same cookie, one generation on — through the long GlassPod at ~0.2g and got there in seven: mint at 185°C, cookie body at 195°C, diesel exhale at 210°C. Same architecture, smaller building. The difference is what the path does to the layers: the Hammah's review is specific that the glass keeps them distinct rather than blurring them, and that the mint-cookie interplay survives intact across the first two draws. The 4 Pro's neutrality is chemical, from a ceramic that adds nothing; the Hammah's is structural, from a path that is nothing but glass. Both work. Only one of them gives you four draws in the middle stage to notice it happening.
The Tilray medical flowers split the other way, and this is where the 4 Pro quietly wins something serious. The Hammah's PCK T18 is a landrace indica — myrcene-dominant, hash-like, woody — and its review called it a purist's dream: pine through glass with remarkable clarity at 180°C, then clean, undistorted hash body at 195°C, with the note that any plastic taint would ruin a traditional profile like that. Fair. But it's a forgiving assignment; robust old-world terps are hard to break. The 4 Pro drew the harder one. PT01 is terpinolene-dominant — delicate, heat-fragile, rarely preserved well by budget hardware — and its review reported the floral, incense-like notes arriving intact at 170°C, better terpinolene preservation than expected of anything under £150. The Hammah proves a clean path on a strain that would forgive a dirty one; the 4 Pro proves a neutral chamber on a strain that forgives nothing.
The call: the Hammah gives you the purest single mouthful, the 4 Pro gives you more of them and a better result on the fragile terps. Neither review claims a flavour crown and neither should — at 7.5 apiece these are good-not-great flavour devices, and the format is what you're actually choosing between. Both run hot enough to want the temperature guide open in week one.
Design & Build
Winner: Nordampf Hammah. 7.5/10 versus 6.5/10, and this is the widest quality gap on the card that isn't about batteries.
The Hammah is 85.2g, 90mm, synthetic leather over stainless internals, with the magnetic GlassPod system as the engineering centrepiece. The leather is the bit nobody expects — warm in the hand, distinctive in a market of aluminium and rubber, an accessory rather than a gadget. Sarah noticed it before anything else; that's in the review. So is the fact that the pods are thick enough to survive a table drop, as Jake involuntarily established.
The 4 Pro looks like an £85 device and feels like one, and its review says so without flinching. The OLED is the good part — full-colour, real-time temperature and battery, crisp indoors, washed out in direct sunlight. The plastic housing is the bad part: better than the No.3's, still plastic, still scratches if you look at it wrong. And there's a specific fault worth knowing: early production mouthpieces worked loose. Tom's went at eight months, which is textbook Tom, though even Tom concedes those eight months were brilliant. Later runs tightened the fit — check the wobble on arrival, and the manufacture date if you're buying old stock.
Interior materials, these two are close. Exterior materials, they are not.
Battery & Charging
Winner: Smono 4 Pro, and it's the most one-sided category on this site's cards in a while. 9/10 versus 5.5/10.
3000mAh against 1600mAh, 8–12 sessions against 4–6, ninety minutes to full against roughly two hours. The 4 Pro carries more battery than a Mighty+ at a third of the price and, as its review puts it, will outlast your desire to keep vaping before it runs out.
The Hammah's 1600mAh is the single number that caps its overall score. A moderate user gets an evening; a heavy user gets half of one. The 3–4.5 minute session timer preserves the cell only by rationing you, and when it cuts a slow sipper off mid-session that's another 30 seconds of reheat and a broken rhythm. Neither battery comes out; only one of them makes you care. The Hammah's own review names the 4 Pro directly here and concedes the comparison, and I'm not going to be kinder about it than that.
Ease of Use
Winner: Smono 4 Pro. 8/10 versus 7/10.
The 4 Pro is the more boring device to operate, which is the compliment it's fishing for: set 190°C, see 190°C, get 190°C, 25 seconds, five-minute session, no modes, no app, no cycling. For anyone running on low executive function at the end of a bad day — and I'm regularly that person — being able to read the temperature off a screen is worth more than it sounds.
The Hammah's five presets (180 to 220°C in 10° steps) are genuinely simple, and magnetic pod loading is quick, tactile and mess-free. The penalty is the double-click degree adjustment, which works fine once you've read the manual, and nobody reads the manual. Add the refill cadence — 0.15–0.2g at a time, until the ceremony becomes the chore — and a timer that stops you before you're finished, and you have a device that asks small favours all evening.
Cleaning & Maintenance
Winner: Nordampf Hammah. 8/10 versus 7/10.
The GlassPod is a cleaning system disguised as a flavour feature. The glass is non-porous, so residue never embeds; the pod takes the mess so the chamber doesn't; and the rotation trick from the review is the one worth adopting — own spares, vape from a clean pod while the dirty one soaks, never wait on maintenance again. Brush every two or three sessions, ISO soak weekly, deep clean monthly.
The 4 Pro's ceramic zirconia resists staining better than steel and the glass mouthpiece pops off and soaks clean, so the visible half is easy. The airpath is the problem — not easily accessible, wanting a pipe cleaner fortnightly and a full disassembly monthly. Not onerous. Still more than "put the glass in a cup."
Portability
Winner: Nordampf Hammah, by the biggest margin either device wins anything. 9.5/10 versus 7/10.
85.2g and 90mm against roughly 145g. Sixty grams doesn't sound like much until it's the difference between a jacket that hangs right and one that doesn't. The Hammah is barely bigger than an AirPods case, the leather doesn't snag on lining, and from any distance it reads as a power bank — not a vaporiser. That 9.5 was earned honestly.
The 4 Pro is slim and pocketable and nothing more. Jacket or trouser pocket, fine; the glass mouthpiece adds fragility; the OLED glows in the dark, so you're palming the screen to be discreet. It's in the acceptable-bulk category. The Hammah is in the you-forgot-it-was-there category.
Value for Money
Winner: Smono 4 Pro, decisively, and this is where the match is settled. 9.5/10 versus 7.5/10 — a two-point gap across a £4.01 price gap running the wrong way for the Hammah.
For £85 the 4 Pro gives you hybrid heating, ceramic zirconia, a glass mouthpiece, an OLED, degree-by-degree control, 3000mAh and a three-year warranty. Its review called it the easiest value assessment in thirty-eight reviews, and pound for pound the best value in the lineup. Three years of cover on an £85 device is the part people undersell.
The Hammah at £80.99 isn't bad value — it's the pocket-premium alternative to the PAX tax, hybrid heating and a glass path in something lighter than a PAX Mini 2 for less money. But it carries a 1600mAh battery and a 4.5-minute ceiling into that assessment, and its own review concedes the battery limits the value. Four pounds and a penny is not a saving. It's the difference between two rounds and two rounds.
Score Comparison
| Category | Nordampf Hammah | Smono 4 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Vapour Quality | 7.5/10 | 7.5/10 |
| Design & Build | 7.5/10 | 6.5/10 |
| Battery & Charging | 5.5/10 | 9/10 |
| Ease of Use | 7/10 | 8/10 |
| Cleaning & Maintenance | 8/10 | 7/10 |
| Portability | 9.5/10 | 7/10 |
| Value for Money | 7.5/10 | 9.5/10 |
| Overall | 7.3/10 | 7.6/10 |
The shape of that is unusual: three categories each, one draw, and the loser holds the single biggest individual win. But the 4 Pro takes battery by 3.5 and value by 2, and those two land in the same place — how the device behaves on a Tuesday, and what you make of the purchase in month six. The methodology shows how the weighting works.
Who Should Buy Which
Buy the Nordampf Hammah if the pocket is the specification. Your actual constraint is a jacket, a handbag, or being seen, and every vaporiser you've owned has been slightly too much object for the situation. You micro-dose by preference or prescription, so a 0.15–0.2g pod is a feature rather than a limit. You know the difference between a glass mouthpiece and a glass chamber and you want the second one. Assume you'll charge it nightly and own spare pods, and ideally it isn't your only device.
Buy the Smono 4 Pro if you want the most vaporiser your eighty-five quid can buy, which — on this site's scores — is exactly what it is. All-day battery, a proper 0.25g bowl, a screen that tells you the truth, three-year cover, and hybrid vapour that scores identically to a device built around a glass path. It's the right answer for medical users on a budget who need several sessions a day without charging anxiety, for anyone who wants to stop thinking about their vape, and for a first serious purchase you don't want to get wrong.
The wrong buyer for the Hammah is the all-day vaper — its own Skip If line says so, and I'd underline it. The wrong buyer for the 4 Pro is anyone who needs to carry it invisibly, or who'll be annoyed every time they notice the housing.
How I Actually Choose
The decision gets made at the front door, and I've stopped pretending otherwise.
The 4 Pro is the one picked up without a thought — good vapour, no admin, and I have never once checked its battery before leaving. The Hammah is the going-out vape: dinners, mates' houses, anywhere the priority is quality without bulk. That split is in both reviews and eight weeks of alternating hasn't moved it.
What has moved is my confidence about handing them to other people, which brings us to Jake. Offered both for an evening in town, Jake took the Hammah — obviously; it's the nicer object and Jake is a magpie. He was back at the table by nine asking, with no visible embarrassment, whether I'd brought "the plastic one" as well. The Hammah hadn't broken. It had simply finished, the way a strong half finishes: entirely, and sooner than the person holding it expected.
That's the whole comparison in one evening out. The nicer thing ran out. The plainer thing didn't.
I still reach for the Hammah when the night is three hours and one session long. I reach for the 4 Pro every other time, which is most of the time, which is what a 7.6 against a 7.3 actually means.
The Verdict (The Bookend)
Nobody has ever finished a strong half and thought "that was the wrong drink." They've thought "that was a short drink," which is a different complaint, and usually the true one.
The Smono 4 Pro is the better device for almost everyone here, by a margin the price does nothing to complicate: 7.6 against 7.3, for £4.01 more, with nearly double the battery, a bigger bowl, an easier interface, a three-year warranty and identical vapour quality. If you're choosing on the numbers, that's the end of it — and a 9.5 for value from someone who's written that section thirty-eight times is not a shrug.
But the Hammah keeps something the 4 Pro cannot take from it: 85.2 grams with a medical-grade glass chamber inside it, and nothing else at this money is both of those things at once. If your problem is that every good vaporiser is slightly too big to actually take with you, no score table solves that, and the 7.3 shouldn't stop you.
The pint for the evening. The half for the occasion. If your budget stretches to one — and four quid apart, that's a genuine either/or rather than a ladder — buy the pint, and keep the half in mind for the jacket you can't ruin.
FAQ
Nordampf Hammah vs Smono 4 Pro — which should I buy? The Smono 4 Pro for most people: it scores higher (7.6 vs 7.3), lasts roughly twice as long per charge (8–12 sessions vs 4–6), holds a bigger bowl and carries a three-year warranty, for £4.01 more. Buy the Hammah only if 85.2g pocket carry and a borosilicate glass chamber are specifically what you're paying for.
They both score 7.5 for vapour — is the vapour actually the same? Close, but different in character. The Hammah's borosilicate GlassPod gives a cleaner, purer individual draw with nothing in the path. The 4 Pro's ceramic zirconia is chemically neutral and its bigger bowl sustains four to five good draws instead of three to four. Same score, more session.
How much worse is the Hammah's battery, really? 1600mAh against 3000mAh: 4–6 sessions against 8–12, and about two hours to charge against ninety minutes. Combine that with the Hammah's 3–4.5 minute session timer and a heavy evening will finish it. If you vape all day, this is the answer to your question and it's the reason for the score gap.
Which is easier to clean? The Hammah, and it's a real advantage. GlassPods are non-porous, pop out, soak clean and keep the chamber tidy — buy spares and rotate so you're never waiting on ISO. The 4 Pro's ceramic and glass are easy, but its airpath isn't readily accessible and wants a fortnightly pipe cleaner and a monthly strip-down.
Are they both good for medical use? Yes, differently. The Hammah's micro-dose pods and clean glass path suit controlled, portable, discreet dosing — its landrace indica test showed hash-like terps coming through undistorted. The 4 Pro suits several sessions a day without charging anxiety, allows degree-by-degree targeting of terpene temperatures, and preserved fragile terpinolene better than expected of anything under £150. For a medical patient on a budget who needs all-day capability, the 4 Pro.
Can I use either with a bong or water piece? Neither is built for it. The Hammah's magnetic GlassPod and the 4 Pro's glass mouthpiece are both closed designs with no advertised water-pipe adapter, and neither review tested one. If water compatibility matters to you, this isn't the pair — look further up the range.
About Dennis M.
Dennis M. has been reviewing vaporisers since 2018 and vaping daily since 2017. He works in IT, has ADHD, and uses cannabis for chronic pain management. He lives in Manchester with his partner Sarah, who has now been shown two vaporisers four pounds apart and asked, reasonably, why there needed to be two.
Dennis would like it noted that he drinks cask bitter at the pub and buys strong craft cans for the fridge, and considers this a balanced portfolio rather than an inconsistency. He is aware this is also how he ended up with a shelf of vaporisers.
A note on spelling: 'vaporizer' is the de facto international spelling, but I've stuck with the British 'vaporiser' throughout this blog.
Questions, corrections, or a device you want tested? dennis@herbvape.co.uk
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Nordampf Hammah — £80.99 Buy the Nordampf Hammah → Worth grabbing with it: a spare GlassPod set — glass and steel, short and long — so you can rotate one through the ISO while you vape from a clean one.
Smono 4 Pro — £85.00 Buy the Smono 4 Pro → Worth grabbing with it: a smell-proof case — the glass mouthpiece is the fragile part, and the housing scratches if you look at it wrong.
Just one more bowl.
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Strains Used: this pairing is the exception to the site's usual control. Neither device was reviewed on the standard Jack Herer / Wedding Cake pairing — the Hammah ran Biscotti Mintz (hybrid, ~25–30% THC) and Tilray Pakistan Chitral Kush T18 (indica, ~18% THC); the Smono 4 Pro ran Animal Mints (hybrid, ~22–28% THC) and Tilray PT01 T22 (sativa, ~22% THC). Animal Mints is a parent of Biscotti Mintz, and both second strains were Tilray medical flower, which is what makes the comparison above possible at all. Both sets were legal medical-grade samples obtained via UK clinical access. Strain effects vary by individual, batch and consumption method.
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Last updated: 26 August 2026.