Airtag vs SmartTag 2 - I CHASED My Friend With Both - Who Wins?
2023 ж. 22 Қар.
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I'm testing the Samsung Smarttag 2 against the Apple Airtag by tracking my friend through Bristol
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Couple of things to clarify: The person I was chasing had all of his devices in Flight Mode, which blocks all wireless connections, including Bluetooth to the tags and 5G to the Apple / Samsung servers I pressed the refresh button in the Samsung app, but all it actually does is ask Samsung's servers for an update, it can't contact the tag directly unless you're within Bluetooth range yourself We went to the centre of the 6th most populated UK city and sat in a restaurant with other people around. If it needs a more populated area than this then it's not much use This video wasn't intended to be an in depth review, but a little test for fun, but that doesn't mean I'm going to run an unfair test
Well, the video should be deleted and do it again.
The subjects devices was on flight mode, so a total waste of time, thanks
@@jean-pierreduven7234Agreed...
Well seems you guys got called out. If not then instead of giving excuses do it over a version 2 and make it as fair as possible.
Guys. 0:12 He is wearing an apple watch while carrying the apple air tag. 😒No shit the air tag will ping the location more frequently than the galaxy smart tag
Listen! this SmartTag2 works. Im based in Johannesburg and I left the tag in Gaborone Botswana which is 285kms away and i was still able to get updates of the status and where it was and how it was moving throughout the enire time.
They look biased and unprofessional. There are many other reviews out there that clarifies just how well the smart tag works.
For your information, the share location feature was not enabled on the smarttag.
Thanks. Can see it briefly flash at 3:30
Lmao... that certainly makes a difference. 😂
Alex Gillon doing semi-product reviews. You love to see it.
The samsung usually updates more often and more accurately than the apple. The samsung also has a refresh button which is useful for trying to constantly get the current location. Would be great if you tested them both more thoroughly, over multiple locations and longer distances.
exactly! i dont recall him ever using the refresh button. just looked like a chase of futility
indeed. I remember a video from about a year or two ago of someone running the gamut with no phone but a Samsung, iPhone, and tile tags walking around London. Samsung did pretty frequent updates, then tile, and airtag. In the few places where the airtag pinged, it always showed up about two minutes after the nearest Samsung, ping location. In the end I find the best choice is really region dependant. Feels like US and maybe some parts of UK Airtags are gonna do better. Europe and Canada its a Toss up. Asia it seems to win with Samsung (in Japan certainly I can be in the next prefecture without a new ping)
always Samsung Vs apple ??? why all this hate for apple ???? Apple is Apple top 1
Sorry but i think there is something wrong with your test !!! You have to make another one with "pro" setup, like no other device with the chased one even with flymode off, and may be a 2 or 3 diffrent location..?
Um, this isn't 2008. Apple has been surpassed in hardware & software years ago. Since the Note 8 & one UI.
This entire test was user error. You didn't use the refresh button on the app, and went to locations with zero people, which is how it tracks it. I guess it's amateur hour.
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Seems pretty apt to me, if it only tracks when other Android users are around its useless.
@@robbalinski1606 How do you think the Airtag gets tracked?
He pressed refresh several times
@@robbalinski1606like the airtag
I had a good trial run when I tested the tags out in Paris. I made the mistake of using my Google Pixel 7 as the data source (hotspot) and my Samsung S23 using that hotspot. the accuracy was very poor when doing it this way and the tags were very delayed when I did it this way. (note that my tags where paired to my Samsung S23) At the last day of our stay in Paris, I switched the data source so Data coming directly from the Samsung S23 now and not the Pixel and the accuracy of each tag I had jumped to almost more accurate location of where it was. Now that I am back in Canada with them, I can track the tag more real time also helps if you constantly press the refresh button to see where and if they moved.
I've seen another test where the Smart Tag 2 won, with many more detections. One thing for sure, "Tile" doesn't compare to either Apple or Samsung.
is Tile better than Apple or Samsung?
@@shor7cut No, Tile is worse gadget you can buy. It is nowhere near to both Apple airtag and Samsung smart tag. Both Apple and Samsung devices are great.
@@shorifahmed808 thank you
This was really helpful any chance you did a similar comparison with the tile?
I would love to see you repeat this experiment, but "train" the Galaxy Smarttag 2. As I understand your set up, the Apple tag may have had an advantage because it was already in service for a period of time before you started the Galaxy device. I enjoyed your method, but I would not rely on it for "complete" review until you have adjusted the process a bit. I like some of the other recommendations from other commenters. Thanks for your work and stay warm!
There are plenty of Samsung phones, issue is Samsung doesn't enable offline Samsung network by default and it only asks once to enable it after 1-2 days phone setup (after that a user has to go and look for offline finding switch inside 5-6 submenus, witch only technical minded people will do) I guess less then 0.5% of Samsung phones have the offline finding network enabled where as iphone/iPad users have it enabled by default when you setup the phone (user has to actively go out of there way to turn it off)
exactly @@leexgx im pretty dissapointed as smarttag2 owner :-/
@@mifo1133 why I recommend using both smarttag 2 and airtag so you got 2 chances to find it (if been used for lost/stolen recovery, like objects like bags or vehicles or electronic equipment, make sure to disable the speaker, smarttag 2 is easy just cut the speaker cable, airtag requires disassembly to get the magnet out) Main advantages of smart tag is that you have 7-day history, where is the airtag only shows you where it was last reported (like one of my airtags last pinged at a gate house before going into a incinerator power plant) but there is a high chance that your airtel get pinged by more iPhones
Air tags are rubbish They update once in 5 mi Completely useless I have four of them
@@mifo1133 Air tags update once in 5 mi, My son is using my bike for work It doesn't even update I can't see where he is any of the time It's also has a Vodafone 4G tracker which is amazing Vodafone curve 😎
Poor GB sitting outside so you could find him 😂 great vid mate
*Asks for coffee, ends up with Coca Cola* 🥲
My bike is stolen, has a samsung tag on it, will UWB help ? Idea is to get into the entry of the building, problem is it has 18 flats in each building and police needs to know the exact flat...
Top drawer review chaps, brilliantly done.
Never thought this would be a tech review channel
This was so good, gave me top gear x the gadget show vibes
Congrats to GB for entering the friendzone of Alex Gillon
I think it would have been helpful to see if the NFC feature worked once you were in the immediate area. I want to buy the Samsung tag but I need to know it works
That was a fun video. It just shows that the tags themselves, whether airtag or smarttag2, do the exact same thing. The success totally depends on by passers and the brand phone they are carrying for relaying the tag position their phone has picked up from the tag. A con for the smarttag is that a by passers Samsung phone only relays the tag position if they have the smartthings app installed. It wasn’t installed on mine by default.
Woo another IRL video, shocked at how late Samsung finally pinged an update, If GB kept moving you probably would've been searching all day with those late pings
He didn't have the Samsung connected properly... ..
5yo me stopped chasing after 1 min, headed home to watch tv, and took a nap
I have the Samsung Galaxy smartphone. And I have the brand new Samsung tracker. And it works perfectly fine. Have no problems with it. I love it. I'm from U.S Michigan
You lost me at "we've only got oat milk.."
*car drives away naturally. dude: WHOHOOOHOOOOOHOHO.
I don't think you understand how the Samsung Tag works. It doesn't need other Samsung phones to have the Smart Things app installed. It will ping any Samsung phone or tablet within range, that was produced withing the last around 5-6 years, and will use that to share a location. The reason you only got pinged once, is that it was a rainy day (few ppl outside), and he walked on very unpopulated places, and then stayed outside a very unpopulated cafe. It's not ideal, but these things depend on the population around. If you choose a sunnier day so that more people are outside and you chose a more populated location, you will get much better result. So this test that you performed was very badly planned and executed. It poorly informs the people about how the tag actually works and it really doesn't explain anything about the differences and advantages of each tag. It doesn't explain about UWB, it doesn't explain about the battery life, it doesn't even mention the new NFC info that the Samsung Tag2 has. You didn't make the effort to research the technology well, and since you didn't know it well, you couldn't present it well. Overall pretty disappointing.
To be fair to the creators, the video title is "I chased my friend," not "comprehensive review". I got exactly what I expected when I clicked the video. For in depth information, there are plenty of other videos to watch.
"last 5-6 years" dafuq you talking, only S-series starting from S21 have UWB, Z's starting with Fold 2. That is only 2021 and upwards with 2 exceptions on 2020. Google "List of UWB-enabled mobile devices" Iphones all have it starting with iphone 11, it will take some years for Samsung to have same coverage, especially with low adoption of shitty exynos s21 s22 on europe.
The thing is its not his fault the tag didn't work well. I would blame samsumg objectively even as a samsung s23 ultra owner. You can't have the expectation that weather will be great and people will be around when an item with your tag is stolen. Even if theres not many people around that's not his fault. 23 minutes is not okay and he pressed the refresh button. This is the reality of what can happen even in a dense city center. I think samsung has some work to do. I was suprised there wasn't a ping to a device at least inside a neaby building.
Galaxy Smart Tag works within Bluetooth range and beyond that range, the tag must be near to any other Samsung phone (probably in public) to make it possible.
May you please try Sumsung Airtag 1 vs Sumsung Airtag 2
Hard thing to test but cool video. Its just impossible to have a fair playing field, would be interesting to do the same thing on Seoul 😂 At the end of the day the tech can be amazing but if just everyone is an iPhone pleb it wont work
People dont get how this works... You dont need other's to install the app, just have "offline search: enabled in the settings. The phone asks you first time setting it up, if you turn it on your phone will ping tags and other devices and it also allows you to track your own phone if it ever gets lost without data, but i assume in the UK most people have iPhones and the Samsung users didnt turn it on un their settings. This would surely be very different in South Korea 😂
I know this is a completely separate thing I dropped 1 of my Galaxy Bud pro2 while I was out in town when I realised it was gone checked the smart things app which gave me it's last known location connected to the phone backtracked in my wheelchair and there it was exactly where the app said it was.
I live in Florida and my galaxy buds pro fell out of there case on the st Pete pier. I didn't know until a few hours later. I hade to drive over 40 minutes away to get them. They track well since the pier was closed and there was only a few people sweeping the parking lot.
That's because so many iphine user installed find my app in their phine and the usually turn bluetooth on (user airpods or apple watch) That's why apple airtags can send more ping
My Bloodhound found me from 19km away, no batteries or bluetooth needed, but it takes a lot of dry food😁!
I've seen several videos comparing these two. In all of them the smart tags update more accurately and more often than the airtags.
"There's not many of them out there." Wtf are you on.
He went somewhere where there were no people and therefore no other phones to ping his location. A better way would have been to track him around IKEA or somewhere there were more people.
How did apple do it? It's just that air tag is more efficient in its approach
Smart tag cant use any Samsung device that is not linked to Smarting Find Network only installing Smarthing, requires Bluetooth to relay the location
@@soumikpaul4768it could be but I guess his friend who hid has an iphone, so it's kinda unfair
I think it's because he kept it in his back pocket and it was probably next to something that prevents signals like RFID wallet
@@techholidays8560the user has to opt-in into the Samsung offline network (it only pops up once after 1-2 days you setup New phone if you dismiss it the phone offline network is unavailable for other users to use passively unless the user goes though 4-5 submenus to enable it witch an avg user won't do and won't be aware of to do anyway) IPhone and iPad when you setup and log into Apple account it by default enables find my device and offline finding by default Samsung needs to change it to be enabled by defualt when phone is setup and logged into Samsung account (like apple) it should part of the Samsung account login process and be pre ticked by default, not after witch the user will dismiss
Bristol was practically empty. No wonder both tags were slow to update
Today i learned alex has 2 channels
I am from Mozambique, bought 2 of these, and the result was very disappointing. Can't track anything outdoor, I ended up tracking my keys at home, as I often lose them 😢😢😢😢
Well they rely on other samsung phones being near them and if you live somwhere where there aren't many samsung users it wont work as well. Also samsung doesnt automatically turn it on for every phone because many people dont want it and dont use it, so apple definitely has an advantage. I dont know the situation in Mozambique but it would be very interesting to test this all over, im sure in Korea you get the best samsung results and in the US the best apple results
@@ArdaSReal Thanks for your feedback 👍
I sent a smart tag from Western Europe to North Korea and the tag registered that it had arrived in North Korea.. So I guess it works :D
That one Samsung ping could have been from the phone you were using to search with you were that close from the apple one.
really tough for samsung, not only it needs another samsung phone but also to have the smart things enabled? I know many people with samsung phones but no one uses that app.
The airtags I have hardly ever update They updated once in 5 mi😂
It pings off all android devices
@@kirani111 no it doesn't. It only pings off samsung devices that have UWB
@@thenerdshow boo, apple air tag it is then.
My wife always forgets her phone at home going to work, can any of these work as a notifier if you leave phone coming out the door or in car.
yes, there is a feature named "left behind"
I prefer the Samsung galaxy tags 2 over the original Apple airtags. A lot more affordable. Mine is the choarcoal black ⚫️ 🖤.
I love smarttag 2. Very fast tracking
By default Samsung phones don't have the UW turned on. If everyone turned it on boom
For the Samsung one once you are near you can actually search using your phone and it will connect to the tag as long as you are very near Another factor to consider is that maybe people around that areas was using iPhones instead of a Samsung Phones
A lot of people have samsung phones, the issue is you have millions of Samsung phones but probably less then 0.5% opt-in into the Samsung offline network (every phone I have touched the offline finding hasn't been enabled) and it is most likely technically enabled phone users who have only enabled it unlike apple, samsung doesn't enable offline finding by default when setting the phone up (samsung needs to change it so it's opt-out not opt-in as that popup shows up 1-2 days after phone setup and your only offered it once, after that you have to go through 5-6 sub menus to get to the toggle switch to turn offline finding on)
Of course GB must always wear something Aston Martin
Even got an AM logo tattooed across my chest!
In contrast to Apple AirTag's reliance on nearby Apple devices, Samsung's tracking technology utilizes the Android ecosystem, creating a mesh network with any nearby Android devices for location updates. While Android boasts a vast network globally, regions with fewer Android devices may experience limited location updates. Consequently, in areas with a higher concentration of Samsung devices, such as parts of Asia, Africa, and Australia, Samsung's tracking device may offer enhanced precision and functionality due to increased compatibility with local Android devices.
You didn't use the Samsung refresh button on the app, and went to locations with zero people, which is how it tracks it. I guess it's amateur hour.
Thx but did you clean that dog shit?
Conclusion: get a SmartDog
Looks like both of them failed!
Isn't it depends on the luck? If there are an iPhone near by, the air tag will ping. If there Samsung device near by, Samsung tag will ping.
That's exactly how it works. The more user of samsung in a community, the faster the smarttag pings. And so it would for apple.
Just having a Samsung device, does not mean automatically registered in Samsung Find My Network (I meant Phone/Tablet/book). Had to register in the network to relay the phone's location (can also use fixed device like TV or so). I think i case the location is shared by multiple devices simultaneously . Then onlythe precise location can be known
Wearing apple watch of course it's got ping 😂
Thanks for this. I am a Samsung guy and I was considering buying this tag as a precaution but this was very disappointing.
I think it depends on whether the Samsung phone is nearby or Apple. In this case there was probably more Apple phones. That's why I have both of them.
@@supernova82 probably there was more samsung phones on the area than iphones, but the thing is all the sets that the tag need to work properly doesnt come as default on any phone and most of the users doesnt seem to be very interested on this so they wont turn on or install anything, while Apple make all that sets as default in order to the airtag work properly, so users dont need to turn on anything or install anything, thats the big difference, and thats why airtag has no rival yet.
@@christophergarcia1154 Samsung users don't have to install anything in order to get the tag to work. The phone detects the tag automatically and you just have to go through the set up process just like with airtags. All Galaxy devices come with the SmartThings app pre-installed like the Find My on iPhones.
@@christophergarcia1154 That is a good point. Another thing to consider is the usage of Samsung vs iPhone in the particular area where you are traveling. The places where I usually travel have mostly Samsung or Android users. I think the safest bet is to use both trackers. Although I wish to have a chepaer GPS tracker with a global SIM card.
The Samsung tag notifies you when it's dropped if you have the separation alarm on. So in actual life this would play out differently
Cool video, but the real question is.... who in their right mind buys a Porsche roadster with an AUTOMATIC tans? 😬
Lol they barely know how to use these tags. There's something called search nearby which will let you know whether you are walking in the right direction or not.
You need to be within Bluetooth range of the tags for this to work
@@AlexGillon Not necessarily! Once you get to the area, you can click the nearby search, and it'll search for 5 minutes while you move around, which will make the tag easier to find. Then, you'll get a notification when you get within the Bluetooth range and this can help you detect it faster. You were nearby the location, so, it could've been activated to lacate it faster. This is what Samsung says on their website. "Search nearby: once you tap Search nearby, your phone will start searching for your SmartTag. Once found, you will be shown the strength of the SmartTag's signal. The green area will get bigger the closer you are to the SmartTag as the signal will get stronger."
Both rely on people close by with the right phones
I have several air tags Say hardly ever update My son rides almost 5 miles to work Might update once😂
thanks for an honest real world review. first one ive actually seen. saved me the money
10 min head start to a Porsche? Man 1 min should suffice...
It's funny you think fast cars can beat traffic
I see alot of mad Samsung users in the comments. But to be completely honest, it depends 100% on who happens to pass by with a compatible phone. That's it. Luck of the draw. In this particular test, it just happened that someone in the restaurant or on the patio had an iphone. I'm an iphone guy, but I wouldn't say either one is necessarily "better" than the other. They do the same damn thing, and it's mostly blind luck. Either one could ping faster on any given day depending on who walks past. Just saying.
Totally agreed. I think the issue people have is that this video is very flawed and doesn't give the proper analysis. Your simple response is more informative than this whole video. When Google implements their own tracker it'll have the biggest user base of any tracker on the market. Android is the most used OS in the world and it will ping off Samsung phones in addition to any other Android phone. That's the biggest advantage right there but to your point yes it still comes down to luck
Lots of harsh samsung die hards in the comment section. I think you did a great realistic video. It not your fault the tag didn't work well. I would blame samsumg objectively even as a samsung s23 ultra owner. You can't have the expectation that weather will be great and people will be around when an item with your tag is stolen. Even if theres not many people around that's not your fault. 23 minutes is not okay and you pressed the refresh button. This is the reality of what can happen even in a dense city center. I think samsung has some work to do. I was suprised there wasn't a ping to a device at least inside a neaby building.
All Samsung tag, even the old one, work better than Apple tag
Is he trying to use an iphone to track the Samsung tracker!? I believe they only work with certain Samsung phones ..This is an iphone tag commercial 😂😂😂
USE THE NEARBY FIND
way better by far! 😊
It doesnt matter how much better and accurate the Samsung one if the requirements for it to ping the tag are so rare, I know so many people that have a Samsung and none of them have the Smarttag app installed so makes the tag useless.
It's the smart things app and it's preinstalled on all Samsungs so no it's not useless
You dont need the app, it is in the system settings called "offline finding". Most have it disabled i assume because of privacy and battery but of course in iPhones apple decides whats on and whats not lol
@ArdaSReal Research before coment naively, you can also disable in IPhone, the thing is, and IPhone user is also less likely messing around in the settings app, if you normally turn off the Bluetooth in the toggle in notifications panel that just turns it off for a couple of hours, you have to enter settings to completely disable Bluetooth, and for having the Bluetooth on in IPhone the tracker works, instead in Android you can have the Bluetooth on but not the tracking option, and a lot of people disable it cause of battery life, not matter how much more features the smarttag may have, the larger user base in Airtags means they going to be better at tracking
dissapointed by samsung smarttag2 :-/ they need to set offline finding by default on.
you have no idea about samsung tag...
What do you mean?
Its actually 2 times
It's not about tag. I will depend on network of smartphone. So, if you go over place where there is many samsung users then obviously samsung will do better and vice versa. 9:13 The only thing that he missed is he should have pinged the tag and find the location with smartphone first. He just went and searched the person and not the tag itself.
Airtag is warning you if a devise is nearby (thief). Completely useless.
your board waiting? im board as fuck watching this video. zzz
The friend have i phone that why its ping faster
He had it in flight mode, so it wouldn't have pinged the tag
It still will ping, even in flight mode.
@@Str8Up180 How? Both Bluetooth and internet connections are disabled
Could be the UWB maybe?
Ya flight mode sorta makes this whole test and video pointless
Samsung has more users and has been proven to track better than Apple...this seems like you've messed this up somehow.
user error!
What phone does the person being tracked have? He has an apple watch so he probably has an iPhone with him giving his apple tag a major unfair advantage. His phone should have been switched off so it wouldn't influence the test. This video is very poorly thought through. You should delete it and redo the test
Okay, so the SmartTag is absolutely totally useless then. Because no-one has a Samsung phone WITH that specific app installed. Pointless. That's about 1% of phones. Where as AirTag utilises literally any remotely recent iPhone, right?
The Samsung phones that the tag uses to determine location, do not need to have the Smart Things app installed. They just need to be Samsung phones that aren't super old (5 or 6 years max) so both Samsung and iPhone are using pretty much the same system.
Smart Things is installed as standard on a Samsung from the moment the phone is installed. Transferring files is also done with Smart Things.
this is the most useless bt tracking test I have ever seen lol. the only value here is the entertainment value of listening to mr headlamp yabber non stop for 10 minutes on a goose chase
As former owner of multiple AirTags, and current owner of multiple SmartTags, I can assure you the SmartTag works, and works verry well.
if the Samsung tracker needs bluetooth to track, then it's absolute garbage
Apple airtag needs bluetooth to lol... It works with bluetooth Sherlock..
Blootooth range???? Garbage!
From the start, it's a bias review.
Great video alex. Really enjoyed it.. Love from scotland mate.
I think your talking bolloz
So much pointless blathering.
always Samsung Vs apple ??? why all this hate for apple ???? apple is apple top 1
Maybe in your country only
@@kennethballena ask your mom were I come from
Fake video. Samsung tracker is much better
Terrible terrible review. No training. Goofy setup. This video is not as "cute" as you think it is. 🙄
When you put a Apple vs Samsung in your thumbnail, we expect the video to be thorough and fair for both brands. What a disappointing video.
This video should be deleted!
Galaxy SmartTag is WAY better than Crapple. That is all.
Test is pointless samsung tag wasn't set up 😂