GPSFix

After Garmin’s announcement of the palm-sized touchscreen Dakota GPS earlier this week the images below have appeared on the FCC web page, presumably for the approval of the wireless interface on the Dakota 20.   The images show the back cover of the Dakota 20 removed exposing the battery compartment, the other is a close up of the inside of the battery compartment (which for FCC purposes shows the label and location).  The images confirm a few things about the Dakota:

• The location of the the microSD card is under the two AA batteries and the entire design of the battery compartment and rear cover is similar to the latch-over design of the Oregon (versus the Colorado’s slide-on cover)
• The Dakota clearly has a lanyard attachment slot at the bottom of the unit
• Although it isn’t 100% clear in the photos it looks like the USB port is below the gray material above the battery compartment (at least I’m pretty sure that is a USB symbol I can see imprinted there)
• The battery cover latch looks like it is on the top of the cover which makes me think that the cover hooks on from the bottom and latches on the top which would be the opposite of the Oregon
• Garmin’s FCC submission was on 6/16 and these files were made available on the FCC web site on 6/30.  The good stuff like user manual and photos will not be public until 8/30.  That still supports a release date of mid to late July I’m guessing.

I’m working on the Dakota wiki and hope to have the site up this weekend or early next week (especially given the rainy outlook here!)

Thanks to Rich at GPSTrackLog for the scoop.

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