In a nutshell: Samsung has two tracking devices coming out in 2022. The Galaxy SmartTag is a BLE fob launching on January 29 for $29.99. The Galaxy SmartTag+ adds Ultra-Wideband support, with availability coming later this year at $39.99. The one caveat would be that SmartTags will just work with Samsung Galaxy devices.

Samsung threw its chapeau in the ring on Th to claiming Tile with its object tracking solution, the Galaxy SmartTag. The pull a fast one on easily attaches to a gear up of keys or stashes abroad in a backpack pocket to help users locate their property if they lose rails of them.

Galaxy SmartTags launch on January 29 alongside the Galaxy S21 flagship phones. Pre-orders started today. Samsung is giving abroad one SmartTag to anyone who orders any model of Galaxy S21 by January 28. Individually the trackers sell for $30 each.

As far as innovations, Galaxy SmarTags are not all that unlike from Tile's trackers. It uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to pair with your phone. Samsung's SmartThings app allows users to come across the last known full general location of their fob. Equally they get closer, a gauge volition show the BLE signal forcefulness to narrow down the search. If all else fails, users can command the Galaxy SmartTag to ping audibly.

It does take some differences from Tile and other trackers. For one, it seems Samsung only has one pattern. It looks a flake like a chubby black Tile with a hole in one corner to attach a keyring. Conversely, Tile has trackers of various sizes, colors, and with or without holes.

Another difference, and arguably a more than pregnant one, is that Galaxy SmartTags will only piece of work with Samsung Galaxy phones. Even though the SmartThings app will run on any Android Phone, it will non detect your SmartTag on non-Samsung devices. In that respect, it is hard to encounter Galaxy SmartTags being a directly competitor to Tile, which is platform agnostic.

Trackers have evolved over the years, and side by side-gen Tiles and Apple tree's upcoming AirTags will motility to Ultra-Wideband (UWB) tracking. The advantage of UWB is that a tracker tin can use the signals of other UWB devices around them to narrow down its location more precisely. Samsung says its SmartTag will non support UWB. However, it mentioned it would release some other version (SmartTag+) later this year for $forty.