Garmin’s Dakota 10 and Dakota 20 handhelds are affordable GPS navigators bringing an attractive color, touchscreen display with a simple user interface to the outdoor market. The units are superbly compact, rugged and waterproof devices with up a long 20 hours of battery life. As with many GPS navigators, the current difficult market conditions have delivered much more value for money in terms of extra features.

The Dakota 10 and 20 units have high-sensitivity GPS receivers to quickly acquire and maintain satellite reception, even poor reception environments like under heavy tree cover or deep canyons. Satellite acquisition is sped up by HotFix which automatically calculates and stores satellite position information for future reference.

Dakota’s glove-friendly, color touchscreen is 2.6 inches in size and is easy to read even in bright sunlight. The interface is based on Garmin’s Oregon series outdoor GPS navigators.
Both Dakota units are brimming with an internal storage capacity of 850 MB of internal memory capable of storing 1,000 waypoints, 50 routes, 2,000 geocaches and an maintaining an active tracklog of up to 10,000 points and 200 saved tracks.

Dakota 20 Additional Features

• 3-axis compass for getting a heading while not on the more and without having to level the device
• barometric altimeter for greater elevation accuracy
• microSD card slot for increased mapping and memory storage
• wireless unit-to-unit connectivity for sharing your waypoints, tracks, routes and geocaches wirelessly with compatible Dakota, Oregon, Colorado and Foretrex devices

Both Dakotas come with preloaded with a worldwide basemap and are 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 type sold separately).

For examining and sharing your saved tracks online users can connect their Dakota unit via USB to a PC or Mac.