Finally, An Airtag Alternative That Fits My Wallet And Works Well With Android Phones

ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• The LuLuLook AirCard Pro is thin, lightweight, and fits seamlessly into wallets.
• The built-in rechargeable artillery lasts for 4 to 5 months betwixt top-ups.
• Handy slot trim to let nan finder to beryllium attached to luggage.

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My grandfather had a saying -- a spot for everything, and everything successful its place. It turns retired that I'm not arsenic tidy arsenic he was, and I person a inclination to… misplace things. For me, Apple AirTags person been a full game-changer, and I person them attached to my keys, embedded successful my bags and luggage, and moreover person 1 successful my car and e-bike.

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They're astonishing bits of kit, but they do person 1 large drawback -- they conscionable don't fresh good into a purse aliases wallet. Even astatine only 0.31 inches (8.0 mm) they make their beingness known. While you tin get clips and adapters, I don't deliberation they work.

What's needed is simply a super-thin type of nan AirTag -- for illustration nan LuLuLook AirCard Pro. 

Designed to activity pinch nan Apple Find My network, astatine only 0.07-inch (1.8 mm) thick, it's nary thicker than 2 in installments cards, truthful it slips into a wallet, purse, aliases passport holder for illustration it's been designed to beryllium there. There's a slot trim successful nan paper to judge a luggage tag strap, cleanable for keeping an oculus connected your worldly erstwhile traveling. The paper comes pinch a lanyard for you to connect it to, well, immoderate you want to track.

The AirCard Pro is reliable capable to past nan rigors of being bent and flexed successful a wallet -- I don't usually spell astir my life pinch a leather wallet successful my backmost pocket, but I suffered for this reappraisal to make judge it was up to nan job. 

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The tag is besides IP68 rated, which intends that it's wholly dustproof and tin past immersion successful up to 1.5 meters of h2o for half an hour, making splashes and rainfall nary problem for it. I near excavation retired successful nan UK summertime rainstorm, which subsequently turned into a sunny time successful nan precocious 80s earlier raining heavy again successful nan evening, and it survived.

There's a batch of tech -- te finder, speaker, battery, and charging coil -- packed into specified a mini gadget.

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While regular AirTags are powered by CR2032 fastener cells, nan AirCard Pro has a built-in rechargeable artillery (yes, there's a artillery successful there) that tin beryllium recharged utilizing immoderate Qi/MagSafe wireless charger (yes, there's everything you request for wireless charging wrong nan paper too!). The built-in artillery lasts astir 4 to 5 months betwixt recharges, and your iPhone will springiness you a heads-up erstwhile it's clip to popular it connected nan charging pad.

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The paper has a 150-foot Bluetooth discovery scope connected nan iOS Find My app, and it has a built-in speaker that's large capable to find nan tag moreover if it's buried pinch your luggage aliases your wallet is nether a heap of sofa cushions. 

The only characteristic that this -- and each different third-party finder tags for nan Apple level -- is missing is precision finding, nan expertise to get real-time region and directional guidance to nan mislaid point from your iPhone. Other than this, nan capacity is beautiful overmuch connected par pinch that of nan AirTag.

I besides tested this by sending it successful nan message to myself, and I had nary problems pursuing it connected its travel astir North Wales (it's rather astonishing conscionable really accelerated message moves erstwhile it's collected from nan station office). 

ZDNET's buying advice

At $19 per finder tag, aliases three for $54, this is simply a awesome measurement to forestall nan vexation of misplacing things and a awesome gift for nan absent-minded and easy distracted.

It's not nan cleanable location locator connected nan market, arsenic nan deficiency of precision uncovering tin beryllium a shortcoming for immoderate users, but it's difficult to nitpick astatine its sub-$20 price.