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Hi everyone,

You know I love gadgets 🙂 so I bought several of their Tile “Mate” and “Pro” models of Bluetooth trackers and a pack of their lost and found labels. As I am, by choice, an Android mobile user I chose these and I believe that they also provide an app. to work with Apple I-Phones. I’m going to pop one inside each of our suitcases for our next trip as well as my camera bag and stick the labels on some of my gear E.g. the lens hoods on my lenses, SDHC card case, Anker USB charging hub, Ravpower card backup file hub, Nitecore air blower etc., my wallet, passports as well as the suitcase luggage labels, much more secure and useful than putting one’s name and address on them and advertising to all and sundry that you’re away I think. For those unfamiliar with these type of devices they are very small square or rectangular-shaped, limited range, Bluetooth transmitters similar in function to the Apple Air Tags. You download their app on your phone, add your trackers and/or labels, your mobile is automatically added, and you can use it to locate the tracker if it is within range of your phone or another Tile user’s phone. You can also push the button on the Tile device to ring your phone should you have misplaced it somewhere within range, down the back of the sofa etc. 🙂 and each device also has a QR code on it which, when scanned, sends them the details of your choosing eg. e-mail address, phone number and a short personal message. Useful as and when you might want to change your contact details without having to re-label things. Although not as popular and with a smaller user-base or, to use the trendy buzz word, “ecosystem” 🙂 when compared to I-phones/Air Tags I was surprised to find on the map that there were about 450 Tile users within a small radius of my home location and we don’t live in a large Metropolitan area.

If the trackers are hi-tech items then the labels are good old-fashioned dumb-tech. They also have a QR code and the words “scan if found” and work the same way as the QR code on the trackers. I’m not suggesting that the trackers and labels are in any way a guarantee of finding your lost/stolen items should you unfortunately need to do so but they could well prove to be useful in doing so and anything that might help can’t be bad. A personal note about Bluetooth, I never leave it switched on all the time on my mobile phone as I feel that there are security risks associated with doing so but rather I switch in on when I occasionally need to use it and promptly switch it off again when I’m finished.

If this is of interest you can find more info on their website: https://www.tile.com/en-gb as always, I do not have any affiliation with the manufacturers and the items mentioned in this posting have been paid for entirely out of my own pocket for my personal use.

Kind regards

Leigh