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how does this differ from phone halo? http://www.phonehalo.com/products-2/ http://www.phonehalo.com/products-2/

by dmvaldman 14y ago

coob 14y ago
It appears to work with iOS and low power bluetooth 4.0.
- litwack 14y ago
  Exactly right. The Cobra Tag uses traditional Bluetooth, so it has to be recharged every couple of days; we use Bluetooth low energy and a removable battery that lasts 6+ months. They don't support iPhone and we (currently) don't support Android.
  - daeken 14y ago
    I'd love to have this but it being iOS-only kills it for me. Any thoughts on opening up the spec? I'd love to implement this for both my laptop (Linux) and my Boot2Gecko phones.
    - litwack 14y ago
      It uses a custom UUID for advertising, but other than that it uses standard Bluetooth LE profiles for notification and battery status, so you should be able to do it...
- saurik 14y ago
  These are both things you should see from PhoneHalo in the incredibly near future, AFAIK; sufficiently that I would not bother waiting for this other new product to maybe happen.
mikeash 14y ago
I'm trying to figure out how they're similar! Your link describes a product that sounds an alarm if the widget gets too far separated from your phone, ensuring that you don't leave it behind somewhere. This widget lasts about a week on a battery charge and requires a monitoring app to always run on your phone (thus it can't work with iOS). The Hone only alarms on demand (it will find your keys, but won't automatically alarm when you leave your keys), does not require an always-on monitoring app, and will last about half a year on a single battery.
- cgherb 14y ago
  Actually that is not true. Cobra Tag works with iOS: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/06/15/phone-halo-shows-off-the-cobra-tag-and-more-at-wwdc-2012/ http://www.tuaw.com/2012/06/15/phone-halo-shows-off-the-cobr... We also were the first to show the 4.0 technology last January at CES: http://ces.cnet.com/8301-33369_1-57354528/bluetooth-4.0-powered-cobra-tag-g5-needs-only-biannual-recharges/
  - lgg 14y ago
    None of their shipping products work with iOS, but you are correct that they demoed a product 6 months ago.

how does this differ from phone halo? http://www.phonehalo.com/products-2/ http://www.phonehalo.com/products-2/

coob 14y ago

It appears to work with iOS and low power bluetooth 4.0.

litwack 14y ago
Exactly right. The Cobra Tag uses traditional Bluetooth, so it has to be recharged every couple of days; we use Bluetooth low energy and a removable battery that lasts 6+ months. They don't support iPhone and we (currently) don't support Android.
- daeken 14y ago
  I'd love to have this but it being iOS-only kills it for me. Any thoughts on opening up the spec? I'd love to implement this for both my laptop (Linux) and my Boot2Gecko phones.
  - litwack 14y ago
    It uses a custom UUID for advertising, but other than that it uses standard Bluetooth LE profiles for notification and battery status, so you should be able to do it...
saurik 14y ago
These are both things you should see from PhoneHalo in the incredibly near future, AFAIK; sufficiently that I would not bother waiting for this other new product to maybe happen.

mikeash 14y ago

I'm trying to figure out how they're similar! Your link describes a product that sounds an alarm if the widget gets too far separated from your phone, ensuring that you don't leave it behind somewhere. This widget lasts about a week on a battery charge and requires a monitoring app to always run on your phone (thus it can't work with iOS). The Hone only alarms on demand (it will find your keys, but won't automatically alarm when you leave your keys), does not require an always-on monitoring app, and will last about half a year on a single battery.

cgherb 14y ago
Actually that is not true. Cobra Tag works with iOS: http://www.tuaw.com/2012/06/15/phone-halo-shows-off-the-cobra-tag-and-more-at-wwdc-2012/ http://www.tuaw.com/2012/06/15/phone-halo-shows-off-the-cobr... We also were the first to show the 4.0 technology last January at CES: http://ces.cnet.com/8301-33369_1-57354528/bluetooth-4.0-powered-cobra-tag-g5-needs-only-biannual-recharges/
- lgg 14y ago
  None of their shipping products work with iOS, but you are correct that they demoed a product 6 months ago.