New Tile Sticker is designed to track everything from TV remotes to bicycles

mood · Oct 8, 2019

New Tile Sticker is designed to track everything from TV remotes to bicycles
Along with trackers for your wallet and keys
October 8, 2019
https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/8/...e-pro-slim-sticker-release-date-news-features

Tile, the company best known for its lineup of key- and bag-tracking Bluetooth fobs, has ambitions to track more of your belongings. The company’s new credit card-sized Tile Slim is designed to track your wallet, while the small, puck-shaped Tile Sticker is meant to be stuck onto laptops, TV remotes, skateboards, and bicycles. Tile is also updating its Mate and Pro key trackers with new models which offer improved range.

It’s a little quieter than the standard Tile Mate key fob, but it was loud enough that I could still hear it ringing at the bottom of a packed bag (although, granted, this may have been a struggle in a louder room).
Although it’s small, it’s still a good quarter inch thick, and you might have to be prepared to get creative to get it to attach to your more oddly sized possessions. The loudness of its speaker seemed about the same as the Tile Slim.
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Tile’s new lineup of trackers is available starting today. The $39.99 Tile Sticker pack contains two of the trackers, and there’s also a four-pack available for $59.99. There are also various multipacks available which include combinations of the four trackers, all of which can be found on the Tile website.
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mood · Oct 27, 2019

Google Assistant is ready to find your Tile tracker
Hey Google, find my wallet
October 27, 2019
https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/27/tile-tracker-google-assistant-support-ready/?

As promised, Google Assistant can now help find your Tile trackers with very little effort. Link the Bluetooth gadget in the Google Home app, set up Voice Match in Assistant and you can ask the voice helper to locate your trackers (and hopefully, the items attached to them) using a simple sentence rather than adding a prefix like "ask Tile to" every time. You can tell Assistant to ring your keys or find your bag.

This works on any Assistant-capable device, although you will need the Tile app on Android or iOS for the initial setup. While Assistant's support for Bluetooth trackers is still pretty slim (Chipolo is the only other brand we know to work at present), this is still a pretty big addition.
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mood · Nov 25, 2019

Tile trackers will warn when you've left your bag at the coffee shop
Smart Alerts are no longer tied to specific locations
November 25, 2019
https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/25/tile-tracker-smart-alerts-anywhere/

Tile's trackers already help you find lost items, but now they might help you before the wave of panic hits. The company is relaunching Smart Alerts in beta to automatically warn when you've left a tracked item behind if it's been there for at least five minutes.
You'll need a Premium subscription ($30 per year or $3 per month), but it might be a small price to pay if you can't bear the thought of leaving a valuable item alone for more than a few minutes. The beta will be available in December.

False alarms shouldn't be a problem, thankfully. You can define "safe zones" for items to determine whether or not you should get an alert. You may want your coat to send an alert when you leave it at the pub, but not when you leave it at home on a warm summer's day.
Not everyone needs these kind of immediate responsiveness, but there's certainly pressure for Tile to introduce features like this. [...] The new Smart Alerts could give iPhone users a reason to choose Tile over Apple's "default" option.
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mood · Feb 3, 2020

mood said: ↑

Google Assistant is ready to find your Tile tracker
Hey Google, find my wallet
October 27, 2019
https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/27/tile-tracker-google-assistant-support-ready/?
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The Google Assistant can now help you find your Tile trackers
February 3, 2020
https://www.neowin.net/news/the-google-assistant-can-now-help-you-find-your-tile-trackers

Google Assistant's feature set is getting an addition today, as the Mountain View giant announced that the smart digital assistant is getting integration with Tile trackers. With the new integration, users can ask the Assistant to locate or ring their trackers, making it easier to find small objects - or even big ones, if you're good enough at losing things.

For those unaware, Tile trackers are small square-shaped devices that have Bluetooth connectivity. The goal is that you can attach them to any of your personal belongings, and thanks to the Bluetooth connection with your smartphone, users can easily know where a tracked object is.

Tile integration with the Assistant could be Google's way to prepare for the rumored launch of Apple's own trackers, which may be called AirTags. Given the deep integration Apple devices tend to have between each other, it seems logical that a similar feature would be available on Apple's ecosystem, and it may be good for Google to pre-empt that.
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Google: Ask the Google Assistant to find your keys with Tile

mirimir · Feb 3, 2020

Huh. I wonder what else you could track

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