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> relatively affordable You can buy 4 third-party trackers for the price of 1 official one. They do lack UWB, though there are other great form factors such a
by ehsankia 8mo ago
> relatively affordable
You can buy 4 third-party trackers for the price of 1 official one.
They do lack UWB, though there are other great form factors such as cards, and cool features such as wireless charging or usb-c charging, which imo is nicer than swapping batteries every few months.
- darknavi 8mo agoDo they plug into the Find My network that iOS devices use?
- ehsankia 8mo agoYep, Tile I believe is the only third party service that exists. All other trackers either plug into "Apple Find My" or "Android Find My Device" network. There's finally starting to be a few devices that can do both, but they're rare, so make sure you get the right one when buying. But they take 10s to setup and it's very smooth.
- skiman10 8mo agoSamsung trackers also use their own network.
- insane_dreamer 8mo agoTiles are about the same price as AirTags (at least they were last time I bought some)
- haneefmubarak 8mo agoAny names or recs on the ones that can do both? Can they do both simultaneously?
- usef- 8mo agoI haven't used it, but the verge recommended the pebblebee clip5: https://pebblebee.com/products/clip-5 https://pebblebee.com/products/clip-5 (or the card 5 for wallets)
- igama 8mo agoYes
- port11 8mo agoI have a third-party tracker and the AirTag in my bicycle. The third-party tracker has no clue what it’s doing or meant to do. But then again, the AirTag is completely inaudible in a decently-sized bicycle parking garage.
- kiwijamo 8mo agoThe reliability of the other brands are quite poor though. I've tried Tile, I've tried Pebble (using Google's network) and neither has worked reliability enough. So I ended up switching to AirTags and so far I have been impressed with the reliability - it works 100% of the time which is not something I could say about Tile nor Pebble/Google.
- notatoad 8mo agoi thought so too, but in practice i've been getting much better battery life from the official airtag on my keychain, than i do from the "atuvos" trackers that see much less use. high-precision UWB finding and half as many coin cells used makes the airtag an easy choice over the cheaper trackers for me. the card-shaped one i've got in my wallet isn't going to be replaced by an official airtag any time soon though, that form factor is too nice.
- ornornor 8mo agoThere is a lot of variance amongst third party/clone tags. I had some grey plastic losanges for a while they were junk and all ended up in the trash. Now I have a bunch of Hoco tags and they’re decent (especially for the price) Would love to know what card tag you’d recommend, I’m after one.
- notatoad 8mo agoi've got the"ATUVOS Air Tracker Tag Card Wallet Tracker", purchased november 2023 and it's still going strong. but i think there's some available now in the card form factor that have rechargeable batteries, and that's what i'll buy when i have to replace this one.