Garmin Dakota GPS

Sunday, July 12th 2009 - 01:30 CEST - Comments: 0

G armin, manufacturer in satellite navigation, announced the Garmin Dakota 10 and Dakota 20 handheld GPS navigators, packing a high-sensitivity GPS receiver, worldwide basemap and color touchscreen display into a compact, waterproof device with up to 20 hours of battery life. Lightweight, rugged and waterproof, Garmin’s new Dakota GPS handheld devices quickly acquire and maintain satellite reception - even in heavy tree cover or deep canyons - thanks to a high-sensitivity GPS receiver with HotFix, which automatically calculates and stores critical satellite information and can use that information to quickly calculate a GPS position.

 

Garmin Dakota GPS handheld

"As families and friends explore the outdoors - from an exotic locale to the local park - The Garmin Dakota outdoor GPS handheld helps keep their adventures affordable and enjoyable," said Dan Bartel, Garmin's vice president of worldwide sales. "While kids have fun with Garmin Dakota's small size and simple interface, parents can take comfort in never losing their way thanks to high-sensitivity GPS and extended battery life."

 

 

Garmin Dakota features

Everyone from geo-cachers and youth scouts to surveyors and hunters can take advantage of Garmin Dakota's 850MB of internal memory, which can store up to 1.000 waypoints, 50 routes, 2,000 geocaches and an active tracklog of up to 10.000 points and 200 saved tracks. Based on the innovative interface of Garmin's award-winning Garmin Oregon GPS handheld series, the Garmin Dakota's glove-friendly, color 2.6-inch touchscreen display is easy to read and use in all conditions, responsive to the touch of your finger, yet resistant to the forces of nature. Weighing only 6.75 ounces, Dakota lasts up to 20 hours on two AA batteries and can connect to your Personal Computer or Mac via USB connection.

 

 

Garmin Dakota 20 GPS navigator

The Garmin Dakota 20 GPS handheld adds even more features, including a 3-axis compass, barometric altimeter, a microSD card slot for increased mapping and memory storage, and wireless unit-to-unit connectivity for sharing your waypoints, tracks, routes and geocaches wirelessly with compatible Dakota, Oregon, Colorado and Foretrex devices. Garmin Dakota 20's 3-axis, tilt-compensated electronic compass shows your heading even when you're standing still, without needing to hold it level.

 

 

 

Garmin Dakota maps software

It's fun and easy to get into paperless geocaching with Dakota. You can download up to 2,000 caches, with information such as location, terrain, difficulty, hints and description - no more paper print outs and manually entered coordinates. The Garmin Dakota GPS receivers comes preloaded with a worldwide basemap and is compatible with Garmin City Navigator NT for turn-by-turn directions on city streets, Blue Chart g2 for marine charting, and TOPO U.S. 24K and 100K map software for incredible terrain detail (each map sold separately).

 

 

 

Garmin Dakota outdoor navigators

The Garmin Dakota 10 and Garmin Dakota 20 GPS handhelds are the latest breakthroughs from Garmin, which has spent 20 years using technology and innovation to enhance users' lives, making Garmin a household name in the automotive, aviation, marine, wireless, outdoor and fitness industries.

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