Karoo 3+ - How to get my $600

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Scott Patton

• August 19, 2022 20:06
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1. bigger battery
2. more powerful processor
3. larger screen
4. Make live tracking actually work
5. Make phone notifications actually work more than 1 ride without reconnecting

Nothing the Garmin 1030 doesn't already have... 

Without those - I'm done being a Hammerhead customer.  

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  Gerry Stephenson

  • August 19, 2022 19:25

  Some very valid points!

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  Darrell McCombs

  • August 24, 2022 21:57

  I have to agree with you Scott.  In fact, I may not wait for the K3.  2 of the items on your list are bug fixes and not dependent on new hardware.  They could and should be resolved already.

  I left Garmin because of the annoying buggy software, but the Karoo software has more significant bugs (for example the reboot issues that took several months to resolve - people losing rides, wth???).  It's hard to stay with Karoo with their slow response to critical and high priority bugs. 

  As far as hardware, yes battery life and and screen that is easier to read in bright sunlight would be very welcome.  

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  Scott Patton

  • August 25, 2022 11:11

  I left Garmin because they do three things REALLY well ... and the rest, not so well.  They do in manage notifications perfectly, and provide tracking to my family ... 
  
  My thought on this post was - give us the option to pay $200 more for a bigger, more powerful unit, like Apple (and Garmin) do.  I would pay for it - if it worked.  

  Maybe the SRAM influence will help?

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  Mário Simas

  • August 30, 2022 10:13

  I will add a slimmer gps. Larger screen ? for me its enough :)

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  Francisco Haya Ramos

  • August 30, 2022 20:24

  Tamaño como el bryton s800 , mejora a pleno sol, mejor batería, más datos de entreno y salud, esto al menos en el karoo 3.

  Por cierto, sesabe algo del nuevo karoo 3,como fecha?

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  Eduardo de Francisco

  • September 06, 2022 09:17

  Topo maps for MTB. As it is now, they are quite fine for road cycling, and quite unusable for MTB.

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  Steven Renders

  • September 22, 2022 08:26

  - Battery, battery, Battery

  - More than one map page.

  - More flexible datapage layouts. Designer on the dashboard.

  - Bigger screen

  Actually, the live trackig worked for my family on my Stelvio climb this summer. But it's far from user friendly to setup/share.

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  Richard Soltes

  • September 22, 2022 19:00

  Gee Scott, I think you described using your cellphone with an ANT+ bridge.

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