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I had a Tile set that I put on my keys, backpack, wallet and luggage. In the end it was too annoying with bluetooth usage draining my phone's battery and not wo
by resfirestar 5y ago
I had a Tile set that I put on my keys, backpack, wallet and luggage. In the end it was too annoying with bluetooth usage draining my phone's battery and not working reliably enough when I needed it, now all the Tile stuff is sitting in a drawer. Maybe Apple can do better with their attention to UX but the main thing I learned is that these things are a whole lot less useful than they might sound. Apple probably needs to make them a bit less expensive to be successful.
- mackrevinack 5y agoeven if they work properly, i can't get past the idea of having to replace a battery every year. and you probably wouldn't just have one of these either. its the same reason i could never get into any of that iot stuff since they mostly rely on batteries. its just plain absurd when you work out how many you would go through in your lifetime and is its crazy to think that everyone else would be doing the same thing.
- tinus_hn 5y agoModern Bluetooth does not drain batteries. How do you think they can run a tag on a button cell for a year?
- duskwuff 5y agoBluetooth is pretty power-thrifty, yes. But the Tile app was kind of power-hungry, since it had to wake up the phone's CPU periodically to keep track of which devices were in range.
- resfirestar 5y agoWas referring to my phone's battery life, not the battery on the Tiles themselves. Could have been location services usage as well as Bluetooth, and to be fair to Tile they have rolled out a lot of updates to the Android app since I stopped using it, many of them promising reduced background battery usage.