The potential is certainly still there, but no sensible person could ever claim that the Karoo wasn't an unfinished product that was rushed to market, and remains woefully incomplete here well over a year later. Mine was schizophrenic from day one, working perfectly on one ride and eating the next. Battery life was like spinning the wheel of fortune-- might be 7% per hour, might be 25%. Absolutely no way to tell.

But aside from an underdesigned quarter turn mount, the Karoo hardware is exceptional. Best screen on the market without question. The software is basically terrible. Hammerhead pushes out updates on a very regular basis, and they tend to break more than they fix-- I had no usable power data for about 4 months, and others still don't have consistent connection now. Perhaps hubris, HH deciding to "close" the software and using their own tweaked Android platform. If they had just open-sourced the OS from the beginning, someone would have built a stable software package for it, something that the people at HH have as of yet seem incapable of doing.

I miss my Karoo. I was easy to operate, and again-- that screen. But having to carry not just a second GPS unit due to the flakiness of the software in general, but batteries and cables on every... single... ride, that got tiresome after a year of doing it. I couldn't usually get 2 rides out of the Karoo (unless it was like a pair of 90 minute rides,) no matter the screen settings or sensors connected. I charge my Bolt once a week, and it requires no back-up recording.