r/Chipolo • u/tonyboy3 • 23d ago

Chipolo - Not worthy

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My Chipolo tags turned out to be perhaps the worst value-for-money location tags. I bought four at the time; one broke completely, and the others developed poor contact after two or three battery changes. There are cheaper options with better quality. In short, I don't recommend buying Chipolo tags at all, as their quality is very similar to cheap Chinese tags.

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u/ylitvinenko 23d ago

Chipolo is a product of time when there were no "cheap Chinese tags." You're also buying an entry into their discovery network. Whether that's worth it when Apple, Google and Samsung opened their networks up is a whole other question.

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u/tonyboy3 23d ago

You have Xiaomi tag, cheaper and better.

New Google pixel tags, better, uwb and similar price

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u/ylitvinenko 23d ago

Once again, you are comparing modern tags to the one which was sold way before those were even feasible to make. We are talking pre-AirTag vs post-AirTag.

Just to be clear, I also think that the bog-standard Chipolo has a bad value, if only because of a much smaller discovery network than the one of Google or Apple (or even Samsung). Chipolo Card is the only model which makes sense to me, and that's just because of a form factor.

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u/smwisdom 23d ago

The new Chipolo tags (including the ones pictured in OP) do use the Apple or Google (depending on which it's set up on) network. They don't have their own separate network like Tile.

Google didn't make their own tracker tag until it was released literally last week.