Frankly, I’m WAY higher on the button arrangement than the “flip the Display” feature, and highest on the use of NiMH rechargables.

And I really, really want 2 meters, not just one It takes up to 15 hours for them to get a replacealcement to youwith “24×7 Customer Service”. Even a 10 hour overnight replacement is unacceptable for me. And I’m often quite a ways from cell-phone service, far away from “delivery service” – accessible roads.

It is ‘waterproof’ to 8 feet for 30 minutes, so it normally will survive an accidental dump into the make-up/handwashing bathroom sink. If it does happen to leak a bit, you pull out the battery and let it dry out. But it definitely AIN’T an Animas in this area.

For JaysonJ: The battery situation is now absolutely AA (joke, joke): It uses one AA battery. And unlike most others, you can switch, in the menu, between Alkaline AA and NiMH rechargeable (rechargeables WITHOUT the memory problems and to-low voltage of the old NiCad batteries). YAY!

The button arrangement is super clever: because the pump IS NOT rectangular, you instantly feel which one is the “up” button and which one is the “down” button, without looking. And having only two buttons on the face is way better than having all 4 there, as most competitors do.

With my old Dtron+, even though the “menu” and “confirm” buttons are mounted horizontal at the tubing end, and the up/down buttons are mounted VERTICAL at the other end, it’s really hard to tell which pair of buttons your finger is on when it’s in your pocket. I always have to pull it out.

It’s incredibly small for a pump with such a large (315 uL) cartridge. And I was talking with a Canadian user last night: even though the cartridge filling method has changed, us penny-pinching cheapskates apparently CAN refill used cartidges. But even though I do it, I MUST EMPHATICALLY RECOMMENDED AGAINST DOING THIS, there’s a big non-sterility risk after the plunger has been pushed up during run time!

Jules, all the leading pumps have fairly “tactile” buttons these days. The Spirit’s unique difference is making it so easy to tell which button your finger is on, and where the other buttons are, when you’re not looking.

Kassie, I’ve got a CGM, and I REALLY don’t think there’s an advantage in a closed-loop system. First problem, even “fast” insulin has a lot of action 3-4 hours later: If an after-meal spike caused your pump to take off on it’s own, it could be a big problem later. Second problem, do you REALLY want your pump doing arbitrary ‘shoot’ while you’re asleep? CGMs often have bad readings, and the Abbott will NOT be an exception: If you roll over and sleep on the Sensor, the accuracy of the squished-out and under-circulating ISF will NOT BE THERE.

Maybe closed-loop with an in-body BLOOD Sensor, but I wouldn’t go NEAR having my Dexcom giving unmonitored instructions to my pump. Could lead to really dangerous situations, I think. And the MM Sensors are less accurate than the Dexcoms in the Hypo range, making mis-diagnosis and dangerous mis-treatment even more likely. But per above, I believe that even Abbott will not be immune to errors, that’s why the haven’t been able to get it approved as a total replacement for finger-stick bG testing. Too many “D” and “E” readings on the Clarke curve.

I wish they’d picked a better name for the product. “Spirit” just doesn’t seem like something a guy would go for and a name like that must have been thought up of by non-diabetic people…

And the price seems right in line with all the other pump prices. Bottom line: These gadgets are mighty expensive.

As far as features- it’s actually pretty slimmed down feature wise compared to other current pumps, but it makes up for some of them in the PDA.