Review on Whistle Go: Ultimate Health and Location Tracker for Pets 🐶 - Waterproof GPS Pet Tracker with Long-lasting Battery Life and Fitness Monitoring by Mark Adams

GOOD: • It really works. If cellular network coverage is uneven, the experience will also be patchy. • Relatively small; the "Go" model works for our cat. • FIRST cheap. • Terrain and satellite overlays are useful and thoughtful. • Monthly mobile phone bill; We've got enough expensive long-term plans already, the good thing is they can be toggled on and off with no fuss. BAD: • If your WiFi SSD changes, you are SOL; it is not possible to restore this in the application (reconnect the device to the renamed local wifi); the device becomes unusable. • "Early Cancellation Fee” for service interruption. Hello whistle! Bite me. • The location accuracy is often very different. Some isolated data points are thousands of feet from every other track point with nothing in between; this is clearly a mistake. (Because such data is easy to obtain, which is inexcusable from a product perspective.) • WiFi coverage can be significant, making it difficult to find an animal "anywhere within WiFi coverage”. In the real world, it's impossible to find a cat that can hide anywhere under the 500-foot deck around the house. • Battery life is short. The practicality lies in the fact that in this case the transceiver should constantly display pink cell towers outside of the WiFi coverage area. However, if your pet runs away with less than 80% of a full charge and you don't find your pet within a few hours, you're done. < 1 day cellular usage. • The smartphone app is incredibly poorly designed. Wanted to find a pet listed as 'home' but it's somewhere within 500 square feet. So we wanted to temporarily remove/disable the Home battery saver and go back to GPS/Cellular to better locate the pet, but wait, how do we do that? Is it in the pet or human category? Why organize utilities like this?!? The company needs to improve "stakeholder communication”; We don't want to track our pet's exercise goals and SoulCycle calories, we just want to find them! MISSING: • All sorts of handy features are missing: For about five cents of additional hardware, you can add a remote-controlled buzzer and a high-brightness flashing LED to the tracker, making it easy to spot the animal within a 250-foot radius. . I'd be happy to pay a few euros more for that.