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- Rugged 2.6” sunlight-readable, color, touchscreen display
- High-sensitivity GPS receiver with HotFix™ for improved performance and reception
- 850 MB internal memory
- Waterproof standard: IEC 60529 IPX7
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 Easy to use touchscreen |
Exploring the great outdoors has never been easier with the Garmin Dakota 10 – even if you’ve never used a GPS handheld before. It is compact and light, fitting into the palm of your hand or you can attach it to a bicycle. The Dakota makes going on a walk or cycle ride fun and easy.
The fact the Dakota 10 has a colour touchscreen makes it really easy to understand. Just choose a function on the screen, press it and go. It couldn’t be simpler to go exploring.
Basic handheld functions
Plot your trail – Save waypoints or favourite locations straight onto your handheld and Garmin will guide you there – just follow the simple, intuitive menu.
Plan your route – Devise routes on your PC and send them to your handheld for an effortless way to plan your journey.
Track where you’ve been – when you want to go back just choose the Trackback function and your handheld will direct all the way
Travel how you want, where you want – Get out and about on foot, by bike, in car or even on the water. The new touchscreen handhelds are ideal whatever the conditions or terrain. Simply touch the screen to select your activity and let you touchscreen handheld do the rest.
Why the Garmin Dakota 10?
The Garmin Dakota 10 is extremely simple to use but has all the features you need to get exploring.
It has a worldwide basemap so you can navigate anywhere with ease. It is waterproof and has a high sensitivity GPS receiver with Hotfix™ which means the Dakota
finds your location quickly and maintains it even under tree cover or near tall buildings.
You can store up to 1000 waypoints, 50 routes, 2000 geocaches and an active tracklog of up to 10,000 points and 200 saved tracks.
The enhanced sunlight-readable touchscreen is brighter and easier than ever to read and use in all conditions.
The Dakota 10 is very light at just 191g including batteries and has 20 hours’ charge from just two AA batteries.
It has 850 MB of free internal memory for adding maps, storing waypoints and routes, and giving you turn-by-turn navigation on road.Geocaching is like a great outdoor treasure hunt that anyone can take part in. The Dakota 10 enables you to quickly download up to 2,000 caches, with information such as location, terrain, difficulty, hints and description — without the need for paper print-outs and manually entered coordinates.
Box Contains
- Dakota 10 handheld GPS system
- Lanyard
- USB cable
- Owner's manual on disk
- Quick Start manual
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41 of 41 people found the following review helpful
I wanted to go paperless with Geocaching so I bought this as a replacement for my Garmin ETrex Venture Hc.It does the job perfectly and I can geocache without reames of paper as it holds all the description of the caches, logs and hints for me to look at on screen.
It was good value for money offering paperless feature and additional features too.Other units with similar features were really expensive so this seemed a cost effective option.I at first wished I had shelled out the extra and got the Dakota 20 when I had realised The map I purchased at the same time was sd card and not the dvd I nneed to load onto Dakota 10,but It was not a problem sending it back and buying the correct Map software.
I have used it for a few days and what a Geocaching difference it has been - having cache descriptions, hints, logs and so on available on the unit.it's a big improvement from printing all the details.At first I had a little trouble as I was looking at the wrong reading as with my venture the reading for distance to cache was in a different position.Then I realised I can also customise these readings and positions to suit the way I want to see/read it.The 'Accuracy of GPS' field is helpful too when searching for that elusive cache to get an idea of where you need to look. I had to upgrade to be a Premium Member on the Ground speak website, but it's well worth the few £'s. Once the Pocket Query [I did approx 100 caches in one go]results are copied into the relevant folder on the device, there are tons of caches and their information available at the touch of the screen.
It is user friendly and very neat and easy to carry and store on your person when not in use.I had to get a screen protector as I worry about messing up the screen therefore making it unreadable as there is a touch screen,and my nails would eventually make a mess of it.also a case for a little added protection while it is knocking around in my bag.
The basemap that comes with it is rubbish which I had expected from my experience with the Venture HC so I was prepared and as I said before bought A map at the same time [pity it was in the wrong format].Once I got the correct map I,after a little research on the net on how to load the map I managed to put the map onto my device and it works a treat .personally I think all these type of devices should come with a decent map,base maps are pathetic and only show major cities,rail and major rivers etc...But then this is how the manufacturers make their money as the maps are not exactly cheap.
I have only had it a short time so I'm still in the playing with it faze,but so far it does not disappoint me.
I now also have a bike bracket so I can see how it works while on he move.
It was good value for money offering paperless feature and additional features too.Other units with similar features were really expensive so this seemed a cost effective option.I at first wished I had shelled out the extra and got the Dakota 20 when I had realised The map I purchased at the same time was sd card and not the dvd I nneed to load onto Dakota 10,but It was not a problem sending it back and buying the correct Map software.
I have used it for a few days and what a Geocaching difference it has been - having cache descriptions, hints, logs and so on available on the unit.it's a big improvement from printing all the details.At first I had a little trouble as I was looking at the wrong reading as with my venture the reading for distance to cache was in a different position.Then I realised I can also customise these readings and positions to suit the way I want to see/read it.The 'Accuracy of GPS' field is helpful too when searching for that elusive cache to get an idea of where you need to look. I had to upgrade to be a Premium Member on the Ground speak website, but it's well worth the few £'s. Once the Pocket Query [I did approx 100 caches in one go]results are copied into the relevant folder on the device, there are tons of caches and their information available at the touch of the screen.
It is user friendly and very neat and easy to carry and store on your person when not in use.I had to get a screen protector as I worry about messing up the screen therefore making it unreadable as there is a touch screen,and my nails would eventually make a mess of it.also a case for a little added protection while it is knocking around in my bag.
The basemap that comes with it is rubbish which I had expected from my experience with the Venture HC so I was prepared and as I said before bought A map at the same time [pity it was in the wrong format].Once I got the correct map I,after a little research on the net on how to load the map I managed to put the map onto my device and it works a treat .personally I think all these type of devices should come with a decent map,base maps are pathetic and only show major cities,rail and major rivers etc...But then this is how the manufacturers make their money as the maps are not exactly cheap.
I have only had it a short time so I'm still in the playing with it faze,but so far it does not disappoint me.
I now also have a bike bracket so I can see how it works while on he move.
27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
This has been one of our best buys. We had a Garmin eTrex back from 10 years ago when these things were quite new, and as geocachers it wasn't quite getting the accuracy of coordinates that we needed. The Dakota 10 is very geocaching friendly and we can download caches straight from the website (we upgraded to premium membership for this). As other people say, the maps are a disgrace but having read the reviews here I went on to talkytoaster and easily loaded the free maps which make all the difference.
It's the bottom of the range as far as geocaching-ready GPSs go, but I am not sure that the extra money is worth the extra bells and whistles. With the Dakota 10 we have had amazing accuracy even in trees and tall buildings and it always finds the satellites quickly and easily - you can't ask for more than that.
It's the bottom of the range as far as geocaching-ready GPSs go, but I am not sure that the extra money is worth the extra bells and whistles. With the Dakota 10 we have had amazing accuracy even in trees and tall buildings and it always finds the satellites quickly and easily - you can't ask for more than that.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
I bought a Dakota 1o at the end of July after finding geocaching and quickly becoming hooked. Had done my homework and was happy with my purchase and the prospect of paperless caching. All well for the first 3 weeks while the unit worked I really couldnt fault it.
However, on a trip to Prague the unit developed a 'fault 22' and was unable to locate satellites. After struggling with the unit throughout the holiday I contacted Gramin on my return and they agreed for me to return it. I was offered a replacement unit which arrived 2 weeks later. However, 3 weeks on the unit would not let me manually enter co-ordinates (needed for those multis) so it had to be returned again (software 'fault 30').
Another 2 weeks later and the same unit returned with the same fault. I am now having to return the unit again (3 times in less than 3 months). Garmin support is useless, no offer of refund and just problem after problem with the Dakota 10. Long wait times to get the unit returned each time and my patience wearing thin.
The unit great when it works, but if you have problems like I have they will only offer refund if you have purchased direct from Garmin UK, be warned!
However, on a trip to Prague the unit developed a 'fault 22' and was unable to locate satellites. After struggling with the unit throughout the holiday I contacted Gramin on my return and they agreed for me to return it. I was offered a replacement unit which arrived 2 weeks later. However, 3 weeks on the unit would not let me manually enter co-ordinates (needed for those multis) so it had to be returned again (software 'fault 30').
Another 2 weeks later and the same unit returned with the same fault. I am now having to return the unit again (3 times in less than 3 months). Garmin support is useless, no offer of refund and just problem after problem with the Dakota 10. Long wait times to get the unit returned each time and my patience wearing thin.
The unit great when it works, but if you have problems like I have they will only offer refund if you have purchased direct from Garmin UK, be warned!
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Published 10 months ago by Warren M. Parkinson
Should have bought one sooner!!
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