Product Description
This is a Bluetooth proximity finder: a small round plastic tag, 3.8 cm across, with a moulded slot for a keyring and a single button on the face. It pairs to your phone over Bluetooth and sounds an alarm when you ask it to. Clip one to the things you put down and then cannot find — keys, a wallet, a bag, the TV remote — and instead of retracing your steps you open the app and follow the noise.
You find it by ear
The app lists every tag you have paired and shows a signal-strength bar beside each one. Tap a tag and it beeps; the supplier's feature panel puts that alarm at 90 decibels, which is enough to hear through a sofa cushion or a coat pocket. There is no map and no turn-by-turn direction on the screen — you are listening for it in the room you are standing in, which is what this class of tag is for.
The tag finds your phone as well
Double-press the button on the tag and your phone sounds, even when it is on silent. The supplier's own panel states it plainly: when the phone cannot be found, double-click the device and the phone will give a prompt tone. It is the same trick in reverse, and for most people it is the half that gets used every morning.
Six steps to set up, no tools
The printed guide runs in six pictures: download the app, connect through Bluetooth, bind the device, click alarm, hear the beep, find the item. Once it is bound, a disconnect reminder can alert your phone when a tagged item and the phone part company, so you notice a wallet left on a table rather than discovering it later.
Small enough to forget about, and you can change the battery
3.8 cm across, 0.6 cm thick and 7 g — it lies flat on a keyring, slips into a card slot or hangs off a bag zip without adding bulk. The case opens from the back so you can swap the coin cell yourself rather than throwing the whole tag away when it dies. Packs of two, four, six and eight let you cover a household in one purchase, and the same tag doubles as a remote shutter for your phone camera.
Specifications
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Type: Bluetooth proximity finder with an audible alarm — not a GPS device
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Diameter: 3.8 cm / 1.5 in
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Thickness: 0.6 cm / 0.24 in
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Weight: 7 g
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Alarm: audible beep from the tag; the supplier's feature panel states 90 decibels
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Battery: replaceable coin cell — the case opens from the back of the device
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Attachment: moulded slot for a keyring, zip pull or bag clip
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Pairing: Bluetooth to a phone app; Zendrop's spec sheet states up to 6 smartphones
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Also does: two-way find (tag rings the phone), disconnect reminder, remote camera shutter
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Colour: black
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Pack sizes: 2, 4, 6 and 8
Why Choose This Product
For a household that loses the same handful of things in the same handful of places, and would rather spend a few dollars' worth of beeping than twenty minutes of searching. Be clear about what it is: a short-range Bluetooth finder that makes a noise, not a tracking device. It carries no GPS receiver and displays no map or coordinates, so it cannot tell you where something is once it is out of Bluetooth range, and it should not be relied on to locate a person, a pet or a vehicle. The supplier photographs a tag clipped to a dog collar — treat that as a way to hear a cat hiding behind the sofa, not a way to find one that has wandered off.
