This is the cheapest I've seen for a Tile Mate. Normally $39.95 for the 1 pack. It's not the newest Mate, but it IS the one that comes with the replaceable battery (which I consider better anyway)
Bought a couple for Xmas presents.
Tile Mate Bluetooth Tracker 2020 (1 Pack) $19.95 (Was $39.95) + Delivery ($0 C&C/ in-Store) @ JB Hi-Fi
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Each to their own, but I prefer the TILE as you don't have to buy a 3rd part holder to make it into a keyring. Also, if you double click the centre button on the tile, it calls your iphone; airtags don't offer that function. I've bought well and truly into apply; the househod has 3 appletvs, an imac, two macbook airs, one pro, and four iphones, yet, I'd take the TILE mate over the airtag for my purposes (finding my keys and finding my iphone without having to log onto icloud).
The thing with Tile is that it's dead when you need it. 🙂 , never knew until I opened mine and found out the battery had been corroded due to moisture (it happened twice until I throw it into the drawer)
It sends you push notifications when batter low.
@jo b: Not if the battery is corroded and completely dead before it has a chance to send anything, being on key ring expose it to moisture.
IMO no. I own both and Tile takes forever to connect to the device where as the Air Tag is instant. The Air Tag offers Precision Find and has more users to help ping and locate your device. The Air Tag also has NFC so you can program it to open doors and connect to Wi-Fi etc.
they're buggy as hell. Sometimes they don't ring even when you place it right next to your phone.
I think it depends on the phone too - but with Apple, it's just integrated into the operating system and works a lot better that way.
The Tile that I had stopped working two days before I lost my wallet. Was only 5-6 months old. Still a bit shitty about it.
60m bluetooth range is pretty useless unless you’re trying to find something inside your own house. I think Apple airtags use anyones nearby iphone as a transmission source to send its location out? Unless im mistaken.
I think Tile have a similar function, but $3/month extra.
Except no one really uses Tile, so it becomes a bit of a useless function.
Tile is the most common tag out there, I've been using it for years without any issues.
The Tile Pro has up to 120m range and works off anyone's phone that has the Tile App installed (and at no additional charges).
@darkly: More people use iPhones than tiles. And that massive coverage, especially in certain countries, gives it way bigger advantage than any tile network.
@ATangk: Agreed they have more coverage by forcing the Airtag reporting on to peoples iPhones, and I'm sure Airtag will overtake Tile with the number of units sold.
But personally I still prefer Tile as it integrates in to third party apps and works for people that don't use iPhones.
@ATangk: I don't disagree with your comment at all; however, this deal is $19.95. I think the cheapest air tag is $45? Then you actually can't attach it to your keys, so you need to buy an air tag keyring holder at $6.50 if you're lucky, so already looking at $51.50 minimum. If your sole purpose is to find your keys or phone that you've misplaced in your home or workplace, which I do biweekly, then this is a decent deal.
@hodgey: I got my airtags at around $24 each from the 4 pack. Its not much of a price difference with the right sale but stock limitations is probably the biggest thing holding back airtags. Tile is only doing these sales to be 'competitive' when they know the Airtag product is overwhelmingly the better choice for iOS users.
@hodgey: I got 4 pack of Airtags for $90 ($22.50 each). You are comparing an item on sale vs full price of another item. Still again you need to think about why are you buying it? To find lost items! Wouldn’t you want to buy something that works better and has more chances of you finding an item? No one I know has a Tile product. Most people I know have iPhones, which help Airtag owners find their items.
@Pricebeat: Tile has always been doing deals like this (I only ever buy mine on sale), and I've had them for years.
There's a lot of established users out there that will continue to use them. My Tile Pro's are rated at up to 120m, and integrate to my home automation for some cool stuff
Range significantly decrease by obstacles such as walls, multilevels, buried in a bag surrounded by other items etc. Until something similar in size with GPS becomes available I'll pass.
Apple airtags use anyones nearby iphone as a transmission source to send its location out
Yes
(profanity). Very useful comment.
I'd avoid Tile.
Their owner Life360 sells your data to whoever asks for it.
https://9to5mac.com/2021/12/06/tile-owner-life360-reportedly…
Life360 sell the data from their "free" plans.
They only just bought Tile and stated they have no plans to sell any Tile data.
(X) Doubt
Life360 stated publicly that they had no plans to sell the data.
If they change their mind, they would have to update privacy policies and declare it.
@darkly: Facebook promised not to sell private data. They wrote it into their privacy policies and everything…
Track your mates!?
or your next girl friend!
Thinking of getting this to check where my cat goes lol
If you know how tile works chances of tracking your cat whereabout is quite low hahaha, like everyone else in the comment section you have better luck with AirTags
Are these really a security risk? I have 'heard stories' of them being dropped into ladies handbags to stalk them and being put on up market cars to follow them home and steal them. Any truth to this?
Is it better than apple tile?