mwgdrwg
Be a Pisces. Jam.
What's the black thing?
Air tags, tiles, gps tracking
- Thread starter TopCat
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What's the black thing?
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
Electronic fob thing that lets me into my apartment block.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
How do the ones that aren't made by apple work without the network of iPhones?
Chz
Stark Raving Sane
Not as well would be the answer. Apple's got a massive advantage in the marketplace due to Android's fragmented nature.
You're often stuck with the last location that your own phone located the tag at. Which is great if you forgot where you put your keys, not so great if someone's walked off with them in the meantime.
The best Tile et.al. can do is try to use other people who have that app installed, but that's a tiny number compared to every iPhone on earth.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Lol ok.
Epona
Sonic: 1 Nov 2006 - 8 Jan 2022
Blimey, fuck people who are ADHD then, says you.
It's OK, it's just stupidity.
I was looking into getting an android type tag version for OH to put on his keys, stick to the back of the remote, and any other thing he loses regularly.
BTW. I am a bit pissed off because I came up with the idea long before bluetooth existed that you could potentially have small flash drive sized circuit board with a receiver and a tiny speaker and an adhesive pad whereby you could dial a number it was programmed to receive and it would make beeping noises helping you to find the thing you'd attached it to. Or that your ADHD spouse had attached them to.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Blimey, fuck people who are ADHD then, says you.
It's OK, it's just stupidity.
Not everything I post is entirely serious.
I mean iphone users are happy to tell the Chinese government everything they do and everywhere they go, so there's no reason they should have a problem with helping people find their keys.
Another joke post I presume. As you can criticise Apple for many things but they do take user privacy quite seriously. and all those android phones, guess where they are made to.
SpookyFrank
A cheap source of teeth for aquarium gravel
Thanks. I will.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
So in a way you’ve opted out of life.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
That's Huawei right?
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
When your phone is a spy for the spooks in Shanghai, that’s Huawei.
skyscraper101
0891 50 50 50
When they rollout 5G and risk national security, that's Huawei.
Throbbing Angel
Well-Known Membrane
Came across this earlier today ...
www.telegraph.co.uk
The best Bluetooth trackers and pet GPS trackers of 2024
We spent weeks testing Bluetooth trackers on luggage, wallets and bags and testing GPS trackers on pets to find the top nine location tags
www.telegraph.co.uk
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TopCat
Putin fanboy
I tell the Chinese every day not to take you seriously
ChrisD
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Bumping this thread to ask:
- what battery do the tile pro tags use? Not indicated on their website.
- anyone used an AirTag for keeping track of elderly relatives keys/elderly relative? Considering getting one for mother in law ( with consent!) and linking to my wife’s iPad ( we have android phones). Would link to mother in laws iPad but it’s not a modern iOS so that wouldn’t work. Any thoughts? We live 5 miles away - would apple notice the devices live apart?
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
No idea about protags but airtags use good old CR2032's and they are very easy to replace. Air Tags don't live anywhere they don't have a home location so it would plot where it was in reference to your wife's iPad. Bear in mind you would rely on your MiL regularly getting close to someone with an iPhone/iPad so her location could be reported.
ChrisD
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I’m attracted to the unusual for apple feature of having cheap replacement batteries…
‘Shortly after it released the AirTag, Apple pushed a firmware update to improve its safety measures. When an AirTag isn’t in range of the person who registered it for an extended period or it is traveling with an unregistered person, it will begin to chirp. The exact length of time before you hear the first alert varies, but it's between 8 and 24 hours”
From AirTag vs. Tile: Which Bluetooth Tracker Should You Choose?. Mil is deaf but a chirping tag would annoy visitors/carers!
Throbbing Angel
Well-Known Membrane
This?
Also, Apple's AirTags can't use all/any CR2032 battery - summat about what the battery is coated in
dunno if this is an issue with Tile tags too
MickiQ
In My Defence I was left Unsupervised
Yes they do but they don't chirp ceaselessly, they chirp when their position changes and it doesn't affect them functioning though. If it was in her bag in the hallway then it wouldn't chirp unless someone moved the bag.
ChrisD
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Many thanks for that info about tile pro batteries…I don’t know why they didn’t include in faq’s.This?
Also, Apple's AirTags can't use all/any CR2032 battery - summat about what the battery is coated in
I gave a bog standard battery to son’s partner and it seemed to work in her air tag.
Throbbing Angel
Well-Known Membrane
I searched on it after I replied and found that some cell batteries are covered in a bitter substance to stop kids ingesting them.
But some of these won't work in AirTags
bellaozzydog
rolling turds in glitter
I think it works in the same way AIS on ships does
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