Garmin Dakota 20

Reviews about Garmin Dakota 20

Garmin Dakota 20:

Outdoor navigation meets touchscreen simplicity in Dakota 20.

This rugged, palm-sized navigator combines touchscreen navigation, high-sensitivity GPS with HotFix- satellite prediction, barometric altimeter, 3-axis electronic compass and microSD- card slot in one affordable, power-packed punch.

Touch and Go

Dakota 20 makes outdoor navigation effortless with a tough, sunlight-readable, 2.6 inch colour touchscreen display.

The interface is easy to use, so you-ll spend more time enjoying the outdoors and less time searching for information.

Both durable and waterproof, Dakota 20 is built to withstand the elements: bumps, dust, dirt and water are no match for this rugged navigator.

Get Your Bearings

Dakota 20 has a built-in 3-axis electronic compass, which shows your heading even when you-re standing still or not holding the device level.

Its barometric altimeter tracks changes in pressure to pinpoint your precise altitude, and you can even use it to plot barometric pressure over time, which can help you keep an eye on changing weather conditions.

And with its high-sensitivity, WAAS-enabled GPS receiver with HotFix- satellite prediction, Dakota 20 locates your position quickly and precisely and maintains its GPS location even in heavy cover and deep canyons.

Find Fun

Get into paperless geocaching with Dakota 20 by quickly downloading up to 2,000 caches, with information such as location, terrain, difficulty, hints and description - no more paper print outs and manually entered coordinates. Visit our geocaching pages for more information.

Explore the Terrain

Dakota 20 comes with built-in worldwide basemap, so you can navigate anywhere with ease. Adding more maps is easy with Garmins wide array of detailed topographic, marine and road maps, available on microSD card.

Share Wirelessly

With Dakota 20 you can share your waypoints, tracks, routes and geocaches wirelessly with other compatible Dakota, Foretrex®, Oregon® and Colorado® users.

Now you can send your favorite route or geocache location to a friend easily. Just touch "send" to transfer your information to similar devices.

Dakota 20: Touchscreen navigation for the great outdoors.

Physical & Performance:

Unit dimensions, WxHxD: 2.2" x 3.9" x 1.3" (5.5 x 10 x 3.3 cm)

Display size, WxH: 1.43"W x 2.15"H (3.6 x 5.5 cm); 2.6" diag (6.6 cm)

Display resolution, WxH: 160 x 240 pixels

Display type: Transflective colour TFT touchscreen

Weight: 5.25 oz (148.8 g) with batteries

Battery: 2 AA batteries (not included); NiMH or Lithium recommended

Battery life: 20 hours

Waterproof: yes (IPX7)

Floats: no

High-sensitivity receiver: yes

Interface: USB

RoHS version available: yes

Maps & Memory:

Basemap: yes

Preloaded street maps: no

Ability to add maps: yes

Built-in memory: 850 MB

Accepts data cards: microSD- card (not included)

Waypoints/favorites/locations: 1000

Routes: 50

Track log: 10,000 points, 200 saved tracks

Features:

Automatic routing (turn by turn routing on roads): yes (with optional mapping for detailed roads)

Electronic compass: yes (tilt-compensated, 3-axis)

Touchscreen: yes

Barometric altimeter: yes

Camera: no

Geocaching-friendly: yes (paperless)

Custom maps compatible: yes

Photo navigation (navigate to geotagged photos): no

Outdoor GPS games: no

Hunt/fish calendar: yes

Sun and moon information: yes

Tide tables: no

Area calculation: yes

Custom POIs (ability to add additional points of interest): yes

Unit-to-unit transfer (shares data wirelessly with similar units): yes

Picture viewer: no

Garmin Connect- compatible (online community where you analyze, categorize and share data): yes