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Garmin Dakota
Mark Peters : July 12th 2009 - 01:10 CET
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 Garmin Dakota GPS navigators : Garmin intros the Dakota 10 and 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 Dakota GPS handheld devices quickly acquire and maintain satellite reception thanks to a accurate GPS receiver with HotFix, which calculates satellite info and can use that info to quickly calculate a GPS position. The Dakota handhelds are the latest GPS devices from Garmin, which has spent 20 years using technology to enhance users’ lives, making Garmin a brand name in the automotive, aviation, marine, outdoor & fitness industries.
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Garmin Dakota handheld GPS
“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 GPS 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 PC or Mac via USB connection.
Garmin Dakota 20 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 map software
It’s fun and easy to get into paperless geocaching with the Garmin Dakota outdoor GPS. 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 USA 24K and 100K map software for incredible terrain detail (each sold separately).
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