I give it 2 weeks before we start hearing news stories about people using as a stalking tool. A jealous partner could slip it into their partner's purse to track their movements for example.
As it's bluetooth LE, it would be useless for this purpose. About all it could do is tell you when the tag was *not* somewhere, i.e. out of range as opposed to where it was. So I suppose you could use it to test your partners car was parked in the garage or not and make inferences but not much else.
Anyway if you wanted a GPS tracker then they sell them on Aliexpress for $5-10. As it happens they also sell Bluetooth LE proximity tags almost identical in purpose to these Airtags for a buck. So Apple saw the
Or will that come later? The UWB version of Airtags is supposed to be able to pinpoint location to within an inch and give precise direction and distance measurements. That would certainly be different than Tile's use of older Bluetooth technology which is much less precise.
I give it 2 weeks... (Score:2)
What could possibly go wrong...
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Anyway if you wanted a GPS tracker then they sell them on Aliexpress for $5-10. As it happens they also sell Bluetooth LE proximity tags almost identical in purpose to these Airtags for a buck. So Apple saw the
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New in the Bluetooth 5.1 standard, from wikipedia [wikipedia.org]:
Angle of Arrival (AoA) and Angle of Departure (AoD) which are used for locating and tracking of devices
So it is a little more then just signal strength.
Airtags use UWB for precision location? (Score:2)