The Tile Slim is an ultra-thin tracker that can fit anywhere a credit card can.
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I was an hour late to a dentist appointment, when I realized I had spent too many damn lifetime minutes looking for my keys.
Which jacket was I wearing yesterday? Are they in that one purse? How about the backpack? Did I leave them in my pants that are now IN THE DRYER? Noooo.
– Me, every morning.
There are a lot of useless gadgets on the market – Dash buttons for binders, $700 juicers, internet-connected laser pointers for cats, and the like – but Tile isn't one of them. It can find your stuff when memory fails you.
Bluetooth trackers, like Tile, are a pretty elegant tech solution for an everyday problem. They&039;re small, typically no larger than a tin of lip balm. Almost every tracker has the same features (including Trackr, Chipolo, and, of course, Tile): the ability to ring the item from your phone, display the item&039;s last known or current location on an app, reverse find a phone by pressing on the tracker itself, and tap into a network of the device&039;s users to crowdsource your search when the tracker goes out of Bluetooth range.
I bought my Tile more than a year ago. Of the three trackers I considered, Tile had the most Facebook likes and therefore, perhaps, the most users (“millions,” according to the company)?? Yeah. Idk. Those users, I figured, could come in handy when I lose them for good. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
But even on my own, Tile has come in handy more times than I&039;d prefer to admit. My boyfriend has been driven INSANE by the 90-decibel Tile chirp I activate every morning to find my door key.
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Tile Slim, a thin, wallet-friendly tracker, is the company’s newest product.
The company sent a review unit over, on loan, and I&039;ve been playing with it, and trying to lose my stuff ever since.
It&039;s fundamentally the same product as the original Tile, but much slimmer and minus a key ring. There&039;s an integrated button you can double tap to locate your phone, and it will also appear in the app with a map of its current or last known location. It has the same IP5 splash-proof rating and 100-foot Bluetooth LE range.
Tile
It’s lighter (9.3 g), thinner (2.4 mm, or about two credit cards stacked), but has a larger surface area (about 1.5 times larger than the original Tile, diagonally).
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