Garmin Dakota 10 and 20 User Manual Published
The user manual for the Dakota 10 and Dakota 20 has been published on the Garmin web site. I’ve taken a quick run through the manual and the software looks almost exactly like the Oregon minus the image/photo viewer, Wherigo, 3D View and the NMEA Spanner support. About the only difference I noticed is a redesigned Satellite page.
The differences between the Dakota 10 and 20 are made clear in the manual. The Dakota 10 does not support:
- Micro SD-card slot
- 3-axis tilt compensated compass / Sight’n Go
- Wireless transfer of tracks, waypoints, routes and geocaches between other Garmin GPS’s
- Barometric Altimeter / Elevation Plot
- Beeps / Alarm Clock
Based on what I’ve seen with the Oregon 550t the operation of the 3-axis tilt compensated compass looks identical on the Dakota as well, right down to redesigned compass page and massive bearing pointer.
The manual does give you a good feel for how the battery cover works. It looks to be a different design from the Oregon although the layout of the battery compartment is almost identical.
Does anyone out there have a Dakota yet? I’ve seen a post over on the Groundspeak boards indicating that people are getting the Dakota 10′s at GPSCity but I haven’t seen signs of the 20 yet. GPSCity and a few others are saying tomorrow.
Hopefully we’ll be able to get a hands-on Dakota review posted in a day or two, so stay tuned…
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July 24th, 2009 at 9:28 am
The Dakota looks like a nice piece of hardware. But something doesn’t make sense to me, the Dakota, which is supposed to be the low end of the series of GPS, and the Oregon 550T which is the high end GPS both have 3 axis tilt compass, why then wouldn’t the oregon have the same?
July 24th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Yeah, it doesn’t make a ton of sense when you look at it from a product lineup perspective but from a development perspective since the two units were developed at almost the same time it probably made sense to leverage the same hardware and software across the DK and 550t.
-Scott