Samsung may soon launch a Bluetooth-based tracker to offer Roof tile a race for your money.
Insightful people in 91 cell phones spotted images of the alleged Samsung tracker on Friday published by the NCC certification authority, where it is listed as Samsung Galaxy SmartTag Similar to Tile’s smart trackers and Apple rumors AirTags, he supposedly uses Bluetooth to connect to his other devices so you can find them in the frantic moments when you swear that damn things must have sprung up and left on their own.
Samsung’s tracker features a small hole in the corner to easily attach it to a cord, cable or key chain, and would be powered by a replaceable button battery, according to the schemes in a regulatory document discovered by GSMArena earlier this month.
Rumors have been circulating for a while that Samsung is working on a competitor for Tile, but this leak is our first look at what the finished product might look like. It also appears to confirm the Galaxy SmartTag moniker, a name referenced in Samsung’s SmartThings app code that was spotted earlier this week. The images buried in the code look like icons for the tracker, probably for some kind of UI. One of the images bears the description “will help you track objects such as wallets, keys, headphones and more”, presumably in reference to Samsung’s unconfirmed tracker.
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The company did not immediately respond to Gizmodo’s request for comment. But with Samsung supposedly getting ready to announce its next flagship smartphone line, the Galaxy S21 series, in January 14, we will probably have an update on the Galaxy SmartTags and possibly even a release date. 91 Mobiles speculates that it could cost 1,300 rupees, roug$ 18, which seems quite reasonable. Especially if it has a replaceable battery, a feature that Tile only started to incorporate recently in its line. Throwing an entire gadget just to a dead battery never made a lot of sense in the first place, and I’m sure the planet will be grateful for less junk thrown at fast growing pile.