COROS has introduced they’re delaying new shipments of the beforehand introduced COROS Dura biking GPS. The unit was set to start out shipments subsequent week, on July fifteenth, however as a result of a possible mounting tab breakage challenge, clients can select to simply accept cargo as beforehand scheduled, defer their cargo until September, or cancel their buy.
COROS has acknowledged that the explanation for the delay is to revamp and remanufacture the tabs on the again of the unit. That’s as a result of them discovering in testing that in some third celebration mounts, the Dura tabs might break.
The COROS Dura makes use of the Garmin quarter-turn mount system, which is fairly properly understood. That stated, there are some manufacturing nuances to it, to make sure correct match. Clearly, I don’t have any technique to know if/what number of damaged tab models are on the market, however, I can verify that the COROS Dura models I’ve match ‘okay’, however not ‘nice’ in numerous third celebration mounts I used. It tended to be a little bit bit unfastened. Not horrible, however simply sufficient that after years of utilizing numerous units/mounts, I knew it didn’t fairly really feel ‘perfection’. We’re speaking possible sub-millimeter nuances right here on the thickness.
Now, individuals who have pre-ordered the unit shall be given three decisions through e-mail that simply went out, they’re:
Additional, COROS has modified the provision date for future purchases to September fifteenth, 2024. All of this jogs my memory fairly a little bit of the unique Wahoo ROAM launch debacle, which featured damaged mounts inside just a few weeks of launching, inflicting Wahoo to stop all shipments for a month or two.
That stated, whereas COROS’s choice to type out the mounts is an efficient one, I’m struggling to see why this unit isn’t delayed in its entirety till September. COROS had deliberate a ‘ultimate’ firmware for media/reviewers can be obtainable July ninth, the identical firmware shoppers would get. This was slated to handle numerous points many reviewers discovered again in June.
Nevertheless, upon attempting that firmware, it’s clear it’s not prepared. As a substitute, there’s a brand new firmware popping out subsequent week (on the similar time it ships to shoppers), the place they hope to handle numerous points.
As I famous in my preview publish again just a few weeks in the past, it was fairly tough. I had estimated that it might take till fall someday to be secure sufficient to compete with numerous older models (not to mention present gen models). I then guessed that by subsequent spring (2025), they’d possible be in a spot to compete with a handful (particularly Wahoo) of motorcycle computer systems, on many options. There have been many many many points.
Based mostly on utilizing what was set to be the ultimate firmware for subsequent week on a couple-hour trip yesterday, I nonetheless stand by that evaluation. It didn’t notify me on roughly 80% of upcoming turns. COROS has nonetheless made enhancements primarily based on particular suggestions that myself and others gave, equivalent to making the re-routing quicker and automated (versus a really latent guide affirmation). However it nonetheless requires your telephone, the app working, and stated app/Dura to be fortunately speaking. However past that, there have been different relatively notable points throughout the trip. Thus, giving the unit extra time to bake is the suitable transfer. COROS says they’re working by means of the problems that myself and others reported in the previous few days.
Once more, as I proceed to say – I do have important confidence COROS will stick this touchdown ultimately, and finally trigger a heartache for different biking GPS corporations. However, it’s merely not one thing that’s going to occur immediately. Present firmware remains to be very a lot private-beta stage, and never manufacturing prepared.
Nonetheless, COROS has an extended historical past of transferring extraordinarily rapidly on firmware updates within the wearables realm, and that is actually the identical software program as their watches. And thus I’ve accounted for that in my fall/and many others estimations of their timelines/readiness as famous above. The singular facet that’ll take *years* to be aggressive as soon as they begin, shall be on-device re-routing (as COROS Dura presently requires a mobile connection for all re-routing).
In the end, I don’t know what to ‘launch’ subsequent week on the fifteenth, from a reviewer standpoint (if something). It kinda places each reviewer in a bizarre spot. Clearly, they aren’t prone to repair the problems we’re seeing in probably the most present firmware (which have been round for properly over a month now), within the subsequent few days. Flip-by-turn routing is actually arduous, and that is a part of the hardness. Whereas bits just like the continued sticky watts, will in all probability be simpler to repair. Both means, real-world shoppers are getting models subsequent week and paying with real-world money. That’s sometimes my bar for when a overview is suitable. Thus, we’ll see.
With that – thanks for studying!
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