Chipolo One Point ZDNET's key takeaways The Chipolo One Point and Card Point are currently $21 and $23, respectively.
They're highly accurate, robust, and integrate well into the Google ecosystem.
However, the One is only splashproof, and the Card version has a non-user-replaceable battery. View now at Amazon View now at Chipolo more buying choices
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AirTags are one of the things that have set the Apple ecosystem apart from the Android ecosystem. However, now that Google has introduced its Find My Device network, Android is catching up.
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And spearheading that is Slovenia-based Chipolo, a tech company that's been in the finder tag market (the company uses the word "finder" rather than "tracker") for over a decade, and it has two tags exclusively for Android users -- the One Point fob for keys and the Card Point for wallets and bags.
The One Point is a fob that fits on a keyring or anything else you can think of attaching a fob to -- from your pet to your bike. It measures 1.49in/37.9mm and is 0.25in/6.4mm thin, and it is splashproof to the IPX5 standard.
Powering the tiny fob is a user-replaceable CR2032 lithium coin cell that should last about a year. Regarding range, the fob is good to about 200ft/60m if you want to activate it to play a sound.
The Card Point is a thin plastic finder that measures 3.35 x 2.11 in (85.1 x 53.6 mm) and is only 0.09 in (2.4mm thick) -- about three times a credit card's thickness.
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