Google’s answer to Apple’s AirTag, the Google Pixel Tag, goes on sale starting Tuesday, allowing Android users to track items like their keys, wallet, or bag using their smartphone’s built-in Find Hub.
First announced in August, the $29.99 device takes cues from the AirTag and other lost-item finders by offering connectivity via Bluetooth and ultra-wideband for precision finding. This lets Android device owners, including Pixel Watch wearers, locate their missing items using a combination of visual distance and directional guidance.
Plus, the tag has a built-in speaker to play a chime that helps you locate your item if nearby. (Or, if you’ve lost your phone, you can press the button on the Pixel Tag twice to ring it, too.) You can choose between three different levels of loudness in the settings within the Find Hub, with the maximum volume around 80 decibels.
Though the Pixel Tag serves the same purpose as an AirTag, Google has opted for a different design. Instead of a small, round device, like Apple’s, the Pixel Tag is slimmer and more elongated.
Spec-by-spec, the Pixel Tag is 1.1-inches wide, compared to the AirTag’s 1.26 inches. As the Pixel Tag is oval-shaped, it’s 1.8-inches high from top to bottom. Thickness-wise, the Pixel Tag clocks in at a depth of 0.2 inches, compared with the AirTag’s 0.31 inches…
