AirTag vs SmartTag 2 - Everything you need to know

Okay, if you clicked on this video, you are in one of two groups of people, or you are deciding which tracking device to buy, or you are simply curious which company implemented it best, who made the best product, Apple or Samsung, if you are from group one. The answer is very simple. The airtag only works with iPhones. The Samsung Smart tag only works with Samsung phones. So which one should you buy? If you have an iPhone, the airtag. And if you have a Samsung, the Smart tag. If you have any ot

her Android phone other than Samsung, there is a Tile or chipolo there are other alternatives also the answer of which one to buy is quite obvious and easy but if like me you are in group two and you are curious which company implemented a tracker best in its ecosystem I was analyzing them a lot and these are my conclusions In my opinion Apple and Samsung have the best product ecosystems and both offer a tracker that has exactly the same function, that is, they fundamentally do exactly the same

thing. You put it on your keys, your backpack or whatever you want and you can find it if you lose it, they are both resistant to water and dust, both use Bluetooth and Ultra White Band technology, you can track them both with precision And both use their smartphone network to give you an approximate location of where it is, but as you can see in the Unboxing, the airtag feels more Premium In my opinion, The entire unboxing and pairing process is unmatched by Apple. The experience to register it

is incredible, it automatically appears, you click on two buttons and an emoji and it is ready. Samsung recognized it quickly and I clicked on the button. The problem was that it took a while. about 10 minutes because I had to update it and then I asked for an account and again another update and the process was somewhat tedious but it was achieved, which I think is very Apple. But in terms of Hardware, the Premium and the software experience integrated into the ecosystem I think Apple does it

better, the airtag connects with iPhones to send a Hey Here I am signal and Samsung does the same with all Samsung phones, so you could argue that the airtag gives you better coverage if you are in a city or a community where people have more iPhones or that the Smart tag gives you more coverage if you are in a city where there are more Samsungs. It is interesting here in Monterrey I did the test to see how many times it recorded the location . In other words, how many times it sent a pin Hey, h

ere I am because it detected a phone nearby and to do this test my own phones linked to these devices were not in the car, it was to simulate if I had lost the airtag, the airtag updated the location 11 times during the trip and the Smart tag The location was updated 15 times in the same trip, which means that either there are more Samsungs in Monterrey or simply that the Smart tag is updated more frequently than the airtag. Now that gives you the approximate location, more or less about 50 m ar

ound. Then it is also important to see the capabilities of finding it since you reached the approximate location where it tells you that the airtag or Smart tag is for this. Chris hid the airtag and the Smart tag in a park and I came to look for them as if I had lost them then. For these cases, both have speakers and with both at first I struggled a lot because it didn't connect well, you have to be in the Bluetooth range, so I was walking around the park and suddenly I grabbed the airtag and I

tapped it and it started ringing and I was able to do it. I struggled a little to find it because the sound was kind of faint and I realized later when I managed to connect the speaker I was ringing the Samsung Smart tag and the speaker sounds like twice as loud, or I found it later because the speaker is more powerful and Note because on the back there is a small slot for the speaker and the airtag cannot be seen. Where is the speaker? Aesthetically, the airtag looks better but in terms of func

tionality the Smart tag sounds louder and it is quite useful when you want to find something but I also wanted to try the Ultra. wide Band And using the UWB the airtag is wonderful, it gives you the address of where it is located with an almost millimeter precision of distance and I managed to find it very easily even though the horn was not so loud it guides you with an arrow green and it gives you the distance exactly where it is. In other words, you don't have to struggle to find something, i

n reality, the Samsung Smart tag also has Ultra wide Band and it also tells you the distance and direction but I realized that it is not that precise even when I did the Unboxing I tried it on the table and the airtag tells me the distance even in very small spaces and the Samsung Smart tag seemed to tell me that it was already on the device but in reality it was still one meter away so in terms of accuracy the airtag is definitely better and I like the interface more because it is prettier and

the way your iPhone points out and starts vibrating as you get closer is a very cool experience but the louder speaker on the Galaxy one is now important to note that the Ultra White Band does not It is in all Samsung phones so be careful because my s24 Ultra does have it But there are many other Samsung phones that you just have to check that now another important point about Samsung that just came up is that the Smart tag has a button that you can program to do things you go into the settings

And this gives you automatic action you can turn on the pressed and the pressed for several seconds to have two different actions literally like the action button on the iPhone 15 Pro but directly on the Smart tag you can assign things like routines, for example, turning on the lights in your house or raising the blinds if you have smart blinds. But what I liked the most is that you can notify someone. Imagine in an emergency case where you leave this button pressed and it goes to send a message

to someone you trust Even if you give them access to your smart things account they can see the location when you send them the message also having an integrated button was a great and quite useful added functionality but there is something that worries me a little a little bit about Samsung because from my experience there is something interesting in this whole world because there is the branch of privacy that can be something good or bad depending on how you use it and how you see it in the S

amsung Smart tag, it seemed interesting to me that you can enter to see the history of where the Smart tag was and it gives you super precise information of where it was physically at what time and for how long of what I saw it saves information up to 7 days that is something very useful or quite disturbing, very useful if nothing else. you are using it and you want to remember where you left something or where you were but quite disturbing if someone else wants to use it with bad intentions now

the airtag could be used for bad intentions also obviously but it has no history I didn't find anywhere no save that information absolutely nowhere I can't go to see where my airtag was at what time and for how long I can only see where it is in real time the graph we have of where it was and the pins it was marking in the car's trajectory is because Chris's iPhone detected that he had an airtag near him that was not his, after only 20 minutes it warned him that there was an airtag that was not

his near him and Apple shows you this graph with the entire trajectory of How much do you like? It has been tracking the airtag, that is, they only give you that history information if it is not your airtag, but if it is your airtag, they do not give me that information. It is very curious how it works and I think it is obviously for privacy and security issues aside. Please beep yes. You are near an airtag that is not yours Even if you have Android it also has the ability to notify you if ther

e is an airtag near you Apple has very well thought out the security issue in this and in Samsung as well as not so much with the Smart Samsung tag supposedly also notifies you if there is one near you If you have a Samsung but if you have an iPhone you don't find out, at least not In any way that I know of And even if you have a Samsung and it notifies you, it is not in detail or at all degree and it doesn't give you the information like Apple gives you now they cost exactly the same and at the

end of the day as I said then buy the one from the ecosystem where you are but seeing them in a vacuum who implemented the best tracker in their ecosystem even though it is a worst ecosystem In my opinion, if I am looking at it purely as a product, I liked the Samsung one better. I like that it has the smart button, that is, it adds another type of functionality and it has the keychain included, which is super useful, but yes in terms of ecosystem, in terms of security and privacy, I like the a

irtag better apart from the airtag with the millimetric precision of the u1 chip to find things like your keys or wallet on the couch it is quite useful but in reality both do the same function and very well in their own ecosystem I would love for them to add a button on the airtag I feel like that has become something very fun and I would like to see a version two soon. I use AirTag every day and many and I will continue using it because I am in the Apple ecosystem. But I liked Samsung's implem

entation. The truth is, it is very creative and very well made and quite useful if you were not. in any ecosystem right now I would be interested in knowing which one you choose, airtag or Smart tag. Thank you for watching the video. If you want to see the comparison of iPhone photography against Samsung, that video is great. Go watch it. It's here. Thank you for accompanying me until the end. See you later. soon Peace