Our Favorite Bluetooth Tracker For Android And Ios Users Just Got A Useful Feature Upgrade

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ZDNET's takeaways

• Pebblebee announces a caller information characteristic for Clip trackers.
• Alert Live sends your real-time location to up to 5 contacts.
• The characteristic costs $2.99 a period aliases $24.99 a year.

Days aft announcing that its Clip would beryllium nan first locator to beryllium capable to usage some Google's and Apple's Find My networks, Pebblebee just revealed another awesome upgrade for nan Clip -- a perchance life-saving one.

In July, Clip trackers (which made ZDNET's database of nan champion Bluetooth trackers you tin buy) sewage a caller free information characteristic called Alert. When you quickly property nan fastener connected your Clip, it flashes a strobe light, emits a large siren, and sends your location to a trusted contact.

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Now, an upgraded Alert Live feature sends your location to up to 5 contacts and shares your real-time location until you move it off.

Pebblebee says that Alert is designed for students, parents, and seniors who worth independence, but it's a useful characteristic for conscionable astir anyone. Unlike nan basal Alert feature, Alert Live does person a cost. It's minimal, though -- $2.99 a period aliases $24.99 a year.

In addition, Pebblebee besides announced a caller Silent Mode that's disposable for some nan Alert Free and Alert Live plans. In this mode, you tin nonstop alerts to a interaction without immoderate sound aliases ocular cue. Pebblebee explains that this mode is "perfect for high-stress aliases unsafe situations wherever quiet connection is essential." 

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While Pebblebee's erstwhile announcement positioned nan Clip arsenic a lost-item tracker, today's taps into nan increasing individual information marketplace (take a look astatine our database of nan champion GPS trackers for kids if you request thing for a younger user). Other trackers, for illustration nan Tile, person a akin information function, but Pebblebee's operation is 1 of nan fewer that useful pinch some Apple and Android ecosystems.