I love the shape and size of this tea pot. I've had it for years and unfortunately broke mine. Luckily I found it again on my Amazon purchases. I ordered a new white tea pot and received a brown one. I sent it back asking to exchange it for a white one and again received a brown one. I checked to make sure I was ordering the correct color and I was. The package has a picture of a white tea pot but there is a little circle on the box that says brown. Maybe that is causing the mess up? I tried one more time with a full blow order and again received a brown tea pot. I am sad but I'll have to look for a different tea pot. If you get the color you want don't break it!Other reviewers have said it but I'll add that some kind of fold away handle or bail on the stainless strainer would bring this to a 5 star teapot set.One thing I didn't realize is that the spout does have the sort of built in strainer where the wall of the teapot has several smaller holes poked through it leading to the spout rather than one large opening. I hope that makes sense. It's not as fine a filter as the diffuser/strainer of course but it does block the larger leaves if you wanted to go without the metal strainer. That works well for me if I only brew one cup worth of tea plus a touch of extra water for the loose leaves to settle into, but of course if you're brewing for multiple cups and not pouring them immediately you end up with over-brewed tea if you don't use the strainer to pull your tea leaves out.For capacity, I'm using a fairly standard US coffee mug size rather than an English or Asian style teacup. this teapot has a capacity that makes it very appropriate for TWO of those roughly 9 OZ cups. So if I fill the teacup to an appropriately full level leaving room for the lid and a little empty space to keep me from spilling all over the counter I end up with two full US coffee mugs worth of tea plus a tiny bit of waste. This is perfect and exactly what I wanted.The spout is a touch drippy if you don't pour perfectly but not aggressively/badly so.If I pre-heat it with hot tap water before I brew my tea, then wrap it in a tea towel (kitchen towel) between my first and second cup, my second cup is at a nice drinkable but still hot temperature when I'm ready for it. That's good enough for me but it's not a teapot that can hold tea hot for ages.I find it also brews a single cup very well as the metal strainer goes within a negligible distance from the bottom of the pot.All in all it's a nice little teapot and I'm glad I bought it.I love this tea pot. I have had mine now for ten years and have made well over 4,000 pots of tea in that time. The metal strainer is starting to show some wear and tear, literally. I can't recommend this enough. It has been a trusty companion during this time. Part of my morning and evening ritual, making a pot of tea.I thought I had the perfect teapot with FORLIFE 30 oz. Acorn teapot, but the lid shattered on the floor and I could not purchase just the lid. I use a 32 oz electric kettle, so wanted a teapot that was between 24 oz and 30 oz and decided to give the Agagio PersonaliTea teapot a try. After using it for a few weeks, I'm not unhappy with it but every time I make tea I think of how I loved my other teapot.The PersonaliTea pot drips from the top if you overfill it. So each morning I have to remember to only fill it to about an inch to the top. Since the lid fits into the teapot (with no notch to hold it in place) if you overfill by a half inch, the hot water will pool around the top of the lid. The teapot also drips slightly from the spout for the first cup poured. Unlike other reviewers, my teapot did not come with a clear spout cover. So I now pour my tea over the sink most mornings to contain the mess.I was hoping the tea infuser basket that came with my FORLIFE teapot would fit in this pot but it does not. The infuser that came with this pot is just a generic infuser that you would find with any teapot. The loose leaf tea that I've been using with the pot (from Upton Tea Imports) does find it's way past the infuser and into my cup, so I'm using a tea strainer over my cup as I pour.For the price, I'm not unhappy with this purchase. And I've learned to hold the lid when pouring, so to prevent owning another lid-less teapot.Going back for more than 30-years, my friends and I have been searching for that teapot - not really the “perfect” teapot, but the teapot that transcends perfection. What was in our minds was akin to Plato’s theory of “Forms” - ideal forms, which he explains in his Dialogues. The quintessential “teapot” is a changing form, as is everything in the material world. But, in the non-material world of abstraction, as opposed to sensation, there is a non-changing substance, where there is no questioning of its true reality. This teapot is that form, and that reality. The array of color choices does not alter that reality, as it imparts only a temporal quality that impinges on our earthly senses, and does not alter its Form.I have two of these now, a white one and a light blue one. I lost the basket that came with the first one - white - so I bought the blue one and now they share the basket. I have forsaken the tea-preparation ritual (perhaps if I had the services of a Geisha, I might indulge myself in such ancient folklore), preferring, instead, to make tea in a more plebian fashion. Yet, the mundane teabag seemed such an offense to this teapot and its comely basket that I purchased a pound of “loose” chamomile tea in surrender.This is an art, not a science. This teapot is the supreme artist, rendering its craft to you, its most humble and unworthy servant. You must remember, should you purchase this item (and in a color not to compliment your décor, but to satisfy your soul), that the tea, itself, is not the “end,” but merely an offering to you by an incomprehensible Form in its earthly guise.But now do, it makes three cups, which sets me up in the morning. The only problem with it is I find it a tiny bit akward to rinse. It is not built to be filled to the top. It should be filled to within half inch of the top. The basket is lovely and quite wide for the size, so room for the tea to move.Nicely designed teapot. It allows you to use bagged or leaf tea. The quality is quite basic and is a bit like supermarket quality although there's nothing really wrong with that. I bought two, one was a gift but one came with a free tea sample and one not. The free sample was earl grey lavender (not everyone's cup of tea, no pun intended). I really like the shape of it. It would be useful for about two people.I love my loose leaf green tea but my partner doesn't drink it so this little teapot was ideal for me. I originally looked at the more decorative Japanese style teapots with cups but in the end I chose this one as it was the cheapest by quite margin. It makes about 3 mugs of tea and as an added bonus the tea strainer also fits in my mug so I can use it even when I only fancy the one cup. Super.I love this, the strainer insert is brilliant. I've gone back to loose tea because I discovered teabags have polluting plastic in them. This little pot makes a good four or five cups if you freshen the pot. Looks great too.Good teapot for 2. Has removable tea strainer. Has tendency for tea run down underside of spout no matter how full or how much tilt is put on the tea pot to pour.