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<blockquote data-quote="Virtual1" data-source="post: 37967" data-attributes="member: 4084"><p>the tile has two main functions - 1 to warn you that your tiled item has been left behind, and 2 to try to continue to update the location online when other tile users get close to your tile after it has moved.</p><p></p><p>The tile doesn't have a gps, it simply tells your phone to note the PHONE'S location when the tile is in range. It could be marginally useful if you do fly-away and someone picks up your fallen spark or gets close to it with their phone w/tile app installed. Your flight logs are really a much better source of information.</p><p></p><p>there are more expensive alternatives, GPS trackers can be bought online. you load a prepaid sim card into them and they periodically call the cloud to report position. A lot of these do NOT have gps in them, they geolocate based on cell towers so are not very precise. Accurate to 500ft or so? And a lot of them that don't have gps don't SAY SO in their ads, so read carefully and make sure it says it has a gps in it. These aren't as light or small as a tile - smallest I've seen is about 1" x 5/8" x 1.5" If the have GPS they can be a lot more accurate, but if your spark lands where the tracker can't call out or can't get gps it won't do you any good, so I don't think they'd be very dependable either way.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Virtual1, post: 37967, member: 4084"] the tile has two main functions - 1 to warn you that your tiled item has been left behind, and 2 to try to continue to update the location online when other tile users get close to your tile after it has moved. The tile doesn't have a gps, it simply tells your phone to note the PHONE'S location when the tile is in range. It could be marginally useful if you do fly-away and someone picks up your fallen spark or gets close to it with their phone w/tile app installed. Your flight logs are really a much better source of information. there are more expensive alternatives, GPS trackers can be bought online. you load a prepaid sim card into them and they periodically call the cloud to report position. A lot of these do NOT have gps in them, they geolocate based on cell towers so are not very precise. Accurate to 500ft or so? And a lot of them that don't have gps don't SAY SO in their ads, so read carefully and make sure it says it has a gps in it. These aren't as light or small as a tile - smallest I've seen is about 1" x 5/8" x 1.5" If the have GPS they can be a lot more accurate, but if your spark lands where the tracker can't call out or can't get gps it won't do you any good, so I don't think they'd be very dependable either way. [/QUOTE]
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