Chipolo’s colorful new trackers now work with Apple’s and Google’s networks

The Pop is besides compatible with Apple’s and Google’s tracking apps, but Chipolo’s app offers other functionality for its caller trackers. | Image: Chipolo

Chipolo has announced a new Bluetooth tracker called the Pop, featuring the aforesaid agleam colour options arsenic its Chipolo One but with enactment for some Apple’s Find My and Google’s Find My Device networks. The Chipolo Pop besides has a overmuch larger Bluetooth scope than the company’s existent lineup of trackers and features improved h2o and particulate resistance, expanding wherever it tin beryllium used.

Previously, Chipolo offered 3 versions of its disc-shaped AirTag-like trackers. The $25 Chipolo One worked with Chipolo’s ain app and constricted network, the $28 Chipolo One Spot worked with Apple’s Find My network, and the $28 Chipolo One Point supported Google’s Find My Device network. The caller Chipolo Pop is compatible with some Apple’s and Google’s networks (but lone 1 astatine a time), truthful you don’t person to interest astir choosing the close mentation that works with your devices — a convenience good worthy the Pop’s tiny terms bump to $29.

The Pop tracker is 1.53 inches successful diameter, making it astir a half-inch larger than a quarter, and measures astir a 4th of an inch thick. It’s disposable successful blue, black, green, red, white, and yellowish colour options and is powered by a user-replaceable CR2032 coin compartment artillery that volition support it moving for up to a year.

It features the aforesaid 120dB alarm arsenic Chipolo’s different trackers but boosts Bluetooth scope from 200 feet to 300 feet, perchance making it easier to locate. The Pop besides features an improved IP55 rating, meaning it’s some dust- and water-resistant, but not waterproof. You tin clip 1 to your dog’s collar and not interest astir them being retired successful the rain, but should your pup spell for a agelong swim, the Pop won’t past a implicit dunking.

Although the tracker is designed to enactment with Apple’s and Google’s tracking apps, it’s besides compatible with Chipolo’s ain app, which offers unsocial features. You tin alteration the dependable the Pop makes erstwhile pinged, get a notification erstwhile you accidentally permission thing down (only connected Android), usage the Pop arsenic a distant camera shutter, and ringing your misplaced telephone by squeezing the tracker twice, adjacent if it’s acceptable connected silent.