Review on Ekster Tracker Powered Bluetooth Two Way by Ryan Bennett

This is the fourth wallet finder/tracker I accidentally stumbled upon. When I searched for Revain, for some reason this thing never showed up. In the end, some targeted ads on Facebook recommended Ekster to me, so I decided to check it out because my experience with Innway and Orbit cards wasn't good. I was about to buy a tile but luckily I discovered this before I bought it. I'll start with the characteristics of the Ekster tracker and try to compare it to other devices along the way. Then I quickly go through the many bad reviews, you see on Revain, most of which are ill-informed or, in my opinion, were placed there to deter potential customers. The application is great. It works great, has a snazzy UI/design. It's very elegant and minimalist. All buttons and options work immediately. This is very important to me as the main issues with Innway and Orbit were the application not responding in a timely manner. With these apps, I would have to click the Find My Device button multiple times before the tracker responded. And changing the app settings for Innway/Orbit was also clumsy and unresponsive. Location tracking also didn't work on Innway or Orbit trackers but works fine on my Ekster. The only thing that confuses me is that the Exter is the only one of the three that doesn't show the tracker's current battery life. It worries me because: what if his battery dies and he's groping somewhere in the dark? It's going to be hard to find, and if it can't "ring" when I try to find it, that's bad. I've only had the card for about a week and will update this review with battery life if this proves to be an issue. To avoid battery issues, I keep the tracker in the "ID box" of my minimalist wallet. This is the "clear" pocket that should display your ID. Instead, I just stuck the tracker in there, facing out so it can absorb light when it's on the kitchen counter or desk. Hope, that keeps it charged. This tracker is about 2 credit cards thick. This is likely due to the entire device being wrapped in some sort of protective case/sleeve. giving it a smooth, soft vinyl. I suspect the components inside are a battery, a Bluetooth transceiver, a small speaker, and a small solar panel. The audio isn't very loud, but loud enough to be heard when you're in the same room. In other words, if you left it in the upstairs bathroom, you probably won't hear it from the downstairs living room. You have to walk around to find it. Also, THERE IS NO GPS IN THIS DEVICE! If you're wondering "why is there no GPS", I'll tell you why. There is no reason, Put GPS on a map. This is because the device needs to be connected to the phone to retrieve data through its application. Your phone has GPS. So when the map is connected, the app uses the phone's GPS to get the most recent location (i.e. the last time your phone "saw" the device). This is more efficient for the card as it saves valuable space and battery life. Если бы сама карта имела GPS, она не служила бы никакой дополнительной цели, она просто тратила бы место и время работы от батареи, и вы не получили бы никакой дополнительной выгоды, потому что данные GPS никуда не делись бы, для их отображения требовался бы ваш Phone. GPS data. IF YOU LOSE THE MAP AND IT DISCONNECTS FROM YOUR PHONE, IT CANNOT SEND YOU LIVE SIGNALS TO HELP YOU LOCATE IT! This can only work if you've bought a cellular plan and the card is constantly sending you signals telling you where it is. In this case, you need to plug both the GPS receiver and the cellular transceiver into the card. And you have to pay for a data plan to have the map constantly send location data to a server somewhere. Not only is this expensive, but it drains the battery and increases the size of the tracker significantly. THIS IS AN UNREAL EXPECTATION FOR SUCH A SMALL DEVICE! Take your phone for example. Notice how big it is. Your phone can do all of these things and you need to charge it at least once a day. Try it yourself: Turn on your phone's data, GPS and Bluetooth, then turn off the screen and don't interact with it until it turns off. He'll probably die in 24 hours. And just the BATTERY in your phone is probably 3 times the size of the Exter tracker. Bigger phones last longer as they tend to have bigger batteries. but even they have a max runtime of around 48-72 hours with ONLY GPS, data and Bluetooth (i.e. screen off, no apps in use). So it's not wise to cram real-time GPS tracking and data transfer into this little tracker. To solve these problems, device trackers rely on BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) so they can run for weeks or months. BLE requires an app-enabled cell phone to be within 100 feet to receive any type of location data from that device. Ekster advertises that this place can be found by other Ekster users. This means when you click the Report My Device Lost button, the Ekster app knows to look for it and sends notifications to other users. who have the Ekster app (these notifications are invisible to the other user). So if another user with the Ekster app is nearby, their GPS will send the coordinates to the Ekster server, which will tell you that they are somewhere close to that other user. I have yet to test this feature, but I believe it'll be a no-brainer for you and another Ekster user who happens to be near your lost tracker. And finally, to the guy who claims Bluetooth can be hacked: Maybe he's right. However, this is a risk that you must assess yourself. The chances of someone hacking into your Bluetooth on your phone is pretty slim and almost non-existent if you do nothing. Bluetooth hacks can only happen when if the phone user accidentally allows the connection manually. In other words, you must already allow the connection for the hacker to "hack" your device. As long as you only connect your Bluetooth to the Ekster tracker and don't connect to anything else, if if the phone user accidentally allows the connection manually. In other words, you must already allow the connection for the hacker to "hack" your device. As long as you only connect your Bluetooth to the Ekster tracker and don't connect to anything else, if if the phone user accidentally allows the connection manually. In other words, you must already allow the connection for the hacker to "hack" your device. As long as you only connect your Bluetooth to the Ekster tracker and don't connect to anything else,