- The Moto Label finally admits the monitoring of the ultra wide band
- This brings the Android Find hub tracker with the Apple Airtags
- The word is not yet known when other find hub trackers will admit UWB
Google’s Find Hub, previously Find My Device, has been an alternative of Android quite competent to the always useful Apple Find My Service, with the Android and iOS options that help him locate his missing technology. But so far, Google’s service has lacked a key feature: the discovery of ultra wide band.
Find Hub can help you locate your phone, headphones, Compatible Bluetooth trashing and even close friends and family, all of an application. If you have not used the service (it is true that you can feel a bit hidden behind Google’s best -known Android applications) is a useful unique search store that you will want to add to your home screen.
However, he has lacked one of Apple’s central benefits of his Find My service: the monitoring of the ultra band.
This updated variant of the Bluetooth tracking allows your phone to trace more precisely the precise location of the label. Instead of simply being further or closer to the missing label, the application can give it much more precise directions and distances thanks to UWB. But so far, no UWB devices are offered as an option.
Now, finally, the Moto label does it thanks to a firmware update, as seen by the Android Police. Once installed through the Moto Tag application (currently implementing through Play Store), you can start the FIND Hub application and the updated tracker can be discovered through UWB.
You will also need a high -end smartphone. While the devices of a few years admit UWB, the function is exclusive to Premium models such as Google Pixel 6 Pro and Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus and Ultra. Standard flagships, unfortunately, lack the function for now.
With luck, as other UWB trackers arrive for Android, there will be more reasons for economic devices to support it. For now, the motorcycle label seems to be the only UWB device admitted by Find Hub.
Beyond UWB, Google’s Find Hub is also ready to obtain support to track some devices using “later this year” satellites (through Google’s blog), which makes the service even more useful than it is currently. That would allow the service not only to be reached to Apple, but would effectively take the lead.
