After running the Dura for this week, I thought I would write up a little post on my initial thoughts. Overall, I like it, and it appears that Coros have addressed most of the initial shortcomings since it was introduced a couple of years ago.
I think the maps and navigation are really good. The most recent update has improved on most, if not all, of the complaints about the maps features. You can easily tell the difference between major roads (yellow), minor roads (white), shared paths (solid red), bridleways (thick dashed red), and footpaths (thin dashed red) on the maps. The maps are easily readable in bright sunlight. Turn by turn directions on a pre-planned route are fine, easy to follow, etc. I didn't use the re-routing feature, and to be honest, I never really used it on my bolt 2. More often than not, it got me turned around instead of getting me back on track. I always pulled over and took out my phone to look at off line maps to get back on route, and will continue to do the same.
There is only one bridleway locally that showed as a footpath, but my bolt also showed it as a footpath, so there is some incorrect data in the OSM base map they both use.
I found the maps on the screen a good size, better than my bolt 2, and the routing easier to follow on the dura. Though, if I was just recording a ride, and swapped over to the maps page, it did take about 10 seconds to load. Not a big deal for me.
The Dura seamlessly synced with my Komoot account, and all of my routes are available on the Coros app. If I want to use a particular route, you click "sync with device" and it adds it to the Dura in seconds. It can store up to 100 routes on the device itself.
It paired with my HRM and favero power pedals, and reads HR and power without issue.
The pages are highly customisable, and you can create a layout for each bike. My gravel bike displays HR, in addition to speed, distance and time on the main page, whereas my road bike displays power. There's about 5 or 6 pages you can customise and around 8 different layouts you can choose, with any number of customisable fields (HR, Power, speed, laps, training plan, gearing, music controls, etc).
Battery life is excellent. During my hour-ish commute, I used anything from 0.4-1.5% battery, depending on whether I was using navigation, switching through pages lots, changing music track, etc. Unfortunately for me, I didn't get to test the solar charging as I travel east in the morning and west in the evening on my commute, so the sun isn't in optimal position to hit the solar panel.
So far, I'm very happy with it, and will be testing the navigation and maps a bit more over the coming weeks.
I think the maps and navigation are really good. The most recent update has improved on most, if not all, of the complaints about the maps features. You can easily tell the difference between major roads (yellow), minor roads (white), shared paths (solid red), bridleways (thick dashed red), and footpaths (thin dashed red) on the maps. The maps are easily readable in bright sunlight. Turn by turn directions on a pre-planned route are fine, easy to follow, etc. I didn't use the re-routing feature, and to be honest, I never really used it on my bolt 2. More often than not, it got me turned around instead of getting me back on track. I always pulled over and took out my phone to look at off line maps to get back on route, and will continue to do the same.
There is only one bridleway locally that showed as a footpath, but my bolt also showed it as a footpath, so there is some incorrect data in the OSM base map they both use.
I found the maps on the screen a good size, better than my bolt 2, and the routing easier to follow on the dura. Though, if I was just recording a ride, and swapped over to the maps page, it did take about 10 seconds to load. Not a big deal for me.
The Dura seamlessly synced with my Komoot account, and all of my routes are available on the Coros app. If I want to use a particular route, you click "sync with device" and it adds it to the Dura in seconds. It can store up to 100 routes on the device itself.
It paired with my HRM and favero power pedals, and reads HR and power without issue.
The pages are highly customisable, and you can create a layout for each bike. My gravel bike displays HR, in addition to speed, distance and time on the main page, whereas my road bike displays power. There's about 5 or 6 pages you can customise and around 8 different layouts you can choose, with any number of customisable fields (HR, Power, speed, laps, training plan, gearing, music controls, etc).
Battery life is excellent. During my hour-ish commute, I used anything from 0.4-1.5% battery, depending on whether I was using navigation, switching through pages lots, changing music track, etc. Unfortunately for me, I didn't get to test the solar charging as I travel east in the morning and west in the evening on my commute, so the sun isn't in optimal position to hit the solar panel.
So far, I'm very happy with it, and will be testing the navigation and maps a bit more over the coming weeks.
