- The Moto Tag finally takes the ultra-width follow-up
- This brings the Android Find Hub tracker tied with Apple aerains
- No more words when other hub trackers will support UWB
Find Hub de Google – Previously Find My Device – has been a fairly competent Android alternative to the Apple is always useful to find my service, with Android and iOS options helping you locate your missing technology. But so far, the Google service has not had a key functionality: the search for ultra-large groups.
Find Hub can help you locate your phone, headphones, compatible Bluetooth trackers and even close friends and family, all from a single application. If you have not used the service (certainly, it may feel a little hidden behind the best known Android applications in Google), it is a useful single -shop search shop that you want to add to your home screen.
However, he missed one of Apple’s main advantages to find my service: ultra-large follow-up.
This improved variant of Bluetooth monitoring allows your phone to follow the precise location of the tag more precisely. Rather than being simply more or closer to the missing tag, the application can give you much more precise directions and distances thanks to UWB. But so far, no HUB device has offered an optional UWB.
Now, finally, the Moto Tag does it thanks to an update of the firmware, as spotted by the Android police. Once installed via the Moto Tag application (currently in deployment via the Play Store), you can launch the Find Hub application, and the updated tracker will be discovered via UWB.
You will also need a high -end smartphone. While the aircraft of a few years support UWB, the functionality is exclusive to premium models such as Google Pixel 6 Pro and the Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus and Ultra. Standard flagship products, unfortunately, do not have the functionality for the moment.
Hopefully other UWB trackers arrive for Android, there will be more reasons for budgetary devices to take care of it. For the moment, the motorcycle tag seems to be the only UWB device supported by Find Hub.
Beyond the UWB, the Google Find Hub hub is also ready to support certain devices using satellites “later this year” (via Google’s blog), which makes the service even more useful than it is currently. This would allow the service not only to catch up with Apple, but to take the lead.
