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Samsung's $30 SmartTags Beat AirTags to Launch
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I feel most here are not grasping the main reason we all need these devices.
To find out where your wife has put the thing you want to use but can't find as she's "had a tidy up!"
To find out where your wife has put the thing you want to use but can't find as she's "had a tidy up!"
CR2032 batteries are highly dangerous, limited in their longevity for demanding tasks, unreliable in their surface area delivery and should have no place in the modern world. Especially given their environmental footprint.
Poor design flaw from Samsung, it should be chargeable via USB/C.
Hoping Apple's one uses wireless charging or Magsafe.
I must have missed when Apple went to market with Airtags? Rumor of a product release doesn't = a released product people can buy. If anything they are both copying Tile as already stated.
But yes we all know you think everyone just copies Apple for everything.
In fact... with a partner who works with broken families, often due to domestic abuse... I foresee these types of devices being used by (almost always) men, to track their ex partners, whether simply due to their possessive need to know what their ex is doing, or for much more malignant reasons.I feel most here are not grasping the main reason we all need these devices.
To find out where your wife has put the thing you want to use but can't find as she's "had a tidy up!"
But, they'll also be great to tag things that we are legally allowed to be tracing.
Some really bitter Apple fanboys here mad a company for being competitive and not letting Apple become a monopoly.
They're actually offering one free with a pre order of a new S21 series phone. In addition to a $200 accessories credit in the USA. I get to try this tag and the new pro Samsung ear beans for free and get their highest end flagship for $545 (with trade in of my older phone). Not too shabby. I was not expecting all that when I heard they weren't including the charging brick this year.
That being said, I do still prefer Apple products overall. I am exceedingly fortunate to be able to partake of both ecosystems. But if I had to pick only one, I would at this point in time choose Apple.
So this is Samsung's 2nd tags, Apple has none, Tile had them for years now but somehow Samsung is copying Apple??
Next year you'll claim Samsung copied the 120hz display, wireless charging, fast charging, water resistance, 5G, periscope zoom from the iPhone.
It’s a shame Apple didn’t manage to release them before Samsung... they may be reasonable reasons for that but now they airtag will have an aftertaste of a “me too“ product. And even more shamefull because we all have the feeling Samsung wouldn’t have been launching this product if Apple wasn’t working on the airtags...
Not true. Apple has had these in the works for years, with rumors leaked through the supply chain for years as well. Completely plausible that Samsung caught wind of Apple’s plans and beat them to market with a thrown together product. Samsung rushes stuff to market before it’s ready a lot.
Samsung's first NFC tags were released back in 2012 at this is their 3rd try--so what point are you trying to make?
In characteristic Apple fashion, they often see what is in a given market and try to offer an improved user experience. Tile (I own several), has YET to implement Ultra Wideband. They have announced upcoming versions that will incorporate it, after Apple's specs for Airtags were in the wild.
Not my experience at all.
I'm using them constantly in high end Mitutoyo and other brands measuring equipment.
Get a good years usage from them, and in PC motherboards they last many many years.
Not sure where you get the dangerous idea from, as literally many billions of computers around the world running today all have them installed.