Way too pricey!
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Advantages Easy to use, can use anywhere...
Disadvantages Price, Battery Life
The Garmin Dakota 20 is a fantastic little product which is easy to use and very helpful indeed! It is very reliable and could technically save lives...But then again, and i apologize i can't help but critisize this product...sorry...bullet-point-rant coming up:
* Its technology based navigation...one mistake with the signals or battery life and you could be stranded!* A good old paper map won't run out of battery or smash the screen!
* Very Expensive!* Looks, quite bluntly, like a brick. It isn't nice to gaze upon whilst navigating , but i suppose you don't buy it to admire it, it does its job!
Impressive features included the wireless feature meaning i could send waypoints and markers to my friends if we decided to venture off different ways.The battery hasn't run out when I've used it (touch-wood) but the fear that it might...was quite daunting. If you aren't too far away from life then it's fine, but if you are out in the rugged uplands , - like we were and it runs out, you could find yourself lost...and fast.
Okay the rant didn't last too long, because quite frankly - it did its job, and was easy to use!Short Review, sorry...
Decent product if you can blow £200 on a universal map..Hope I've helped!
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Indie-Rock-and-roll 21/05/2011 21:20
torr 27/04/2011 10:52
I've an earlier model Garmin that I've hardly ever used - but it did save my son from getting lost in the Gobi desert.
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