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Ive ordered 3 chipolo ONE trackers to try out google's new "find my device" network, after google enabled the network (1 year later than promised).

https://blog.google/products/android/android-find-my-device/

After testing it 3 weeks, i recommend you to NOT buy any kind of these devices, as the crowd sourced location detection just isnt works. Never could find any device position relayed by other android devices, not even when i knew a family member is near to it with an android phone. Im not living on a farm, but in suburb, with gardens. So there are plenty of people around, probably all with phones, so this isnt an isolated neighborhood ๐Ÿ˜†

Last week my cat (outdoor cat) lost his tracker, so i tagged the tracker as lost, since that no any sign of it, i also rode on bike around the neighborhood (of course i wont ring to the neighbours to get to their gardens to find the tracker), continously tapping on refresh for the tracker, but isnt found.

To find a tracker directly, the chinese clones that are not working with google find my device is just enough, but much cheaper.

So google's find my device network is just current google quality (not good).

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