ESR Crowdfunding World's First Wallet With Built-In 'Find My' Support

[victorvictoria]

So ESR wants me to replace my Apple Wallet with an analog wallet that needs batteries? Pass. Hard Pass.

 

[GDF]

Good concept, but the wallet is way too big. Will stick to my magsafe Apple wallet and hopefully use Apple Pay in most places.

 

[.wojtek]

Dead on arrival. Our phones will become our wallet. I’m already trying to leave the house WITHOUT a wallet.

Meh... I often go out without wallet (mostly used to pay with phone) I do prefer to take my physical wallet with physical ID, cards and transits just in case...

 

[CrzyP]

ESR and MacRumors may want to humble themselves. The Grove Smart (smart as in Find My) Wallet Trace by Groove Life has been available since May.

Groove Smart Wallet Trace In Midnight Black

Built-in worldwide tracing and instant alerts. Never feel the pain of losing your wallet again. It has a loud long-range ringer to hear your wallet.

www.groovelife.com

 

[zilchfox]

If the whole wallet *including Find My* is only $44, I can’t expect it to be a good quality wallet.

 

[MrRom92]

I’d be interested if it weren’t pleather

 

[iJon]

If it works like a Chipilo, count me out. Unless it has the exact technology as an AirTag, I find these devices worthless. They are great for telling you where you left your wallet, but if you need precision finding, like where it is in my house, these devices don't work well because you have to be so close to the device in the first place for it to play a noise.

I just stick an AirTag in my wallet now. It's a tad bulky, but it's far better than my Chipilo was.

 

[Yammabot]

Why kickstarte? Can’t get behind a company or product with none of the company’s money involved. What ever happened to no risk no reward?

 

[Dj64Mk7]

I guess we don't )

In Soviet Russia, our wallet uses you. 😂

 

[kerr]

Are analog wallets still a thing?

 

[maxfromdenmark]

All my cards and tickets are in my iPhone. I don’t like cash. I don’t need i.

 

[klowy79]

We still use wallet today?

Yes. In Europe you need to carry you insurance card, metro card, residency card ...

 

[alexandr]

In Soviet Russia, our wallet uses you. 😂

Don't I know it)))

 

[AgeOfSpiracles]

Better hope nothing happens to your phone (i.e. accidentally drop and damage it; it gets stolen; accidentally leave it behind somewhere; etc) because without any sort of back-up (cash, ID, credit card), you could be SOL.

Watch?

 

[thawk9455]

Better hope nothing happens to your phone (i.e. accidentally drop and damage it; it gets stolen; accidentally leave it behind somewhere; etc) because without any sort of back-up (cash, ID, credit card), you could be SOL.

You mean just like if you lose your *wallet*?

 

[thawk9455]

What is the specific advantage this offers over just putting a compatible tracking card in my wallet. I already have an Eufy SmartTrack card in my wallet and with that option I can use ANY wallet I want.

 

[mansplains]

I think we're missing the biggest feature of all, RCS support!

 

[sw1tcher]

You mean just like if you lose your *wallet*?

Then you have your phone to fall back on. What's better?

(1) Lose iPhone and have no back-up?

or

(2) Lose iPhone have have a wallet as a back-up? / Lose wallet and have iPhone as a back-up?

Yes, it's possible someone could lose both their iPhone and wallet. But having a back-up is better than not having one.

Isn't that why we have data back-ups of our devices? Are you not familiar with the concept of redundancy?

 

[Digital Dude]

Kickstarter? Do you believe this will work as promised?

No i don’t, but it’s the thought that counts. 🙄

 

[mblm85]

A proprietary connector and charging cable?

Been there before. Huge no.

 

[nitrobear]

ESR and MacRumors may want to humble themselves. The Grove Smart (smart as in Find My) Wallet Trace by Groove Life has been available since May.

Groove Smart Wallet Trace In Midnight Black

Built-in worldwide tracing and instant alerts. Never feel the pain of losing your wallet again. It has a loud long-range ringer to hear your wallet.

www.groovelife.com

You may need to humble yourself too since they already had a wallet with Find My for sale that I've been using since early 2023. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/esrgear/geo-wallet-worlds-1st-magsafe-wallet-with-full-find-my

 

[nitrobear]

If the whole wallet *including Find My* is only $44, I can’t expect it to be a good quality wallet.

It'll be good enough for the price if they use the same materials they've been using for their prior products though.
Also, you buy these because they're cheap, if you want a high quality wallet you'll of course buy something else instead and slap a tracker card on it

 

[bLackjackj]

Does this wallet support precision finding like AirTags do?

NO, and I don't understand why this is never clarified in articles such as this. It's useless without precision finding.

 

[Itinj24]

Eric breaks it down here in case anyone is interested. I’ve been using their MagSafe card holder for a while now and I’m a fan.

 

[Roadster Lewis]

This is the sort of thing I was expecting to see when Apple announced the Find My network. Not just various holders to attach air tags to everything.