Tiles, tags and locators

daniel-2412

Good morning everyone I have a question about these tags, tiles etc. we are forever losing keys especially the kids and it needs to be android friendly and not set say to just Samsung as we all have different brands but they are all android. We don't want to pay subscriptions because basically they are always either in the car, around the house or school. So cheap and cheerful but does the job if you know what I mean. Hoping someone can give some advice. Thanks in advance.

Vitor

Chipolo ONE

flaneurs_lobster

Vitor said:

Chipolo ONE

Maybe Chipolo One Point, the one that works with Google's Find My Device, not Chipolo's own app?

They are £20 a pop, buy one and make sure it does what you want before you are tempted by the multi-pack discounts. Many reviews have found that the Google FMD based devices are not as good in find-ability to the proprietary Apple/Samsung devices when used away from home - a function of how the network is used rather than the devices.

Really depends on the take-up of the service where it's used, not surprisingly they work better in urban rather than rural settings. 

EDIT : I notice that Chipolo are currently running a Valentine's Special LOVE Bundle promotion - because nothing expresses True Love like tracking your partner's every movement...

DullGreyGuy

daniel-2412 said:

Good morning everyone I have a question about these tags, tiles etc. we are forever losing keys especially the kids and it needs to be android friendly and not set say to just Samsung as we all have different brands but they are all android. We don't want to pay subscriptions because basically they are always either in the car, around the house or school. So cheap and cheerful but does the job if you know what I mean. Hoping someone can give some advice. Thanks in advance.

If they are always going to be lost near home then Tile's non-subscription fee version may be ok else Chipolo. 


For outside the home Tile just falls down because no enough people have the app running even if you pay the subscription to have a realistic chance of finding it. In the UK over half of phones are iPhones and almost all are actively looking for a reporting on AirTags so your prospects are just so much higher of finding it again, you can download apps to use an AirTag but you need an apple device to initially set them up.