Gigaset G-tag Personal Bluetooth Tracking Device - Red

Really great for when I need to pop into the corner shop. This alerts my phone once it is out of range.

It works effectively, but has a couple of limitations for me. Firstly it is rather bulky (I have attached it to my wallet, see photo) compared to what I expected. Secondly you cannot adjust the range-alert boundary (it is fixed at around ~30m). On the plus size it seems reliable and the battery lasts a long time (~1yr).

How you feel about this product is going to come down to how often you mislay things like keys and how much you are going to be annoyed by adding quite a chunky device to your key ring.The G-tag is a roughly 4cmx4cm square chunk of plastic (now available in a variety of colours) and just under a centimetre thick so not svelte by any means. It has a large hole which is designed to allow you to add it to your key ring. The makers say you can use it on things like "laptops" too but this feels like a bit of a stretch as there is no obvious way to attach it other than a sticky pad.After installing the free app it is very quick and easy to register a new tag by holding it close to the phone. You can then give it a name (e.g. house keys) and tell the app whether you want to be alerted if your phone gets far enough away from the tag and if you want to be alerted again when you come back within range.I turned both on and watched the "signal strength" as I walked away from my keys. It starts at 100 if you put the tag right on the phone, quickly drops off to more like 50-60 if it is on a nearby table or in a pocket while you hold the phone and gets down to 1 once you are 4-5m away. The signal doesn't completely drop until you are about 25m away from the tag at which point the app duly buzzes to let you know.Now comes the fun part - whilst the app is in contact with a tag, it constantly updates its "memory" of where the tag is/was. So now you can look on a map to get its general location. Then you can fire up the signal strength meter and start playing an electronic version of "hotter or colder" to find the exact place you lost your keys. This does work quite well but, as noted above you do need to get within 4-5 metres before you start to see an indication you are really getting close.I have to say I am not that prone to leaving keys and I see two scenarios where this might not help:1) you leave your house without your keys (which I have done once in the past year) but unfortunately there is a slight lag and the distances are such that I only got warned as I got in the car (and the front door was long closed behind me)2) someone takes your keys/possessions. In this scenario it won't help either because as soon as the tag is out of range of your phone then its location is no longer being updated (it doesn't have its own GPS or data connection) so all you will learn is when and where your keys were stolenIt feels a little to me like a solution looking for a problem but, if you are a person who spends a lot of time hunting for their keys down the back of the sofa and in 100 other locations around your house then this could be just the tag for you.

This is very similar to the motorola keylink which was never made available in the UK, and a number of clones that seem not to have great reviews. The good news is that this solidly built and just works. It is a only bluetooth emitter; it has no other built in functionality whatsoever.Personally, I'm using this with my Moto X phone as a 'trusted device' (Android: settings/security/smart lock/ trusted devices) so that whenever my phone is within range it remains unlocked. If someone nicks my phone, it will lock up, but because I am mostly within range, I am rarely inconvenienced by having to enter the password. For this purpose the tag is excellent, and I'm not even sure that I need to install the associated G-tag app to get this functionality (though I have). If you are more of a 'power user' it would be possible to use the tag to activate all sorts of functionality through the use of apps such as Tasker.The associated G-tag app is not something I actually use, though it works well. You can set it up your phone to alert you when the tag goes out of range, or display that last shown location of the tag on a map. You have to remember though that it shows the last location that your phone saw the tag; it has nothing to do with where the tag is at the moment. An number of other reviews seemed to think that this was a global tracking device, which it's not.For my purposes the tag works flawlessly and is genuinely useful.

Very easy to download the app and set up the tag. Once installed the tag works fine providing it's location on a map.On a large item then this would a great idea especially if you have problems locating your car after parking in one city, getting the train to another and needing to jog your memory as to where you got on the train and left your car. Or if you had a dog that was in the habit of escaping and running away, or even putting in your suitcase so when the airline lost it, you could track it's return.For the purposes of finding something that you have lost in your house this may be not an ideal option. When within the Bluetooth range it tells you 'it is close to you and look around' sounding just like your mother or wife. There is a strength indicator which to be fair will increase the closer you get to the tag so perhaps I'm not being entirely fair. There are some other pretty good uses though.Put one in your bag when you are out and when outside of the Bluetooth range it pings you to let you know this. At first I thought, 'Why?' but actually, it could be a real saver. If some ne'er-do-wells nicks your bag - especially if you have money cards or passport in it then you will know quick enough to either catch that person or at the very least cancel everything before they can be put to someone else's use.And of course you can put one of these on your young child so you know where there are. That seems to be a pretty reasonably thing to do but with an older child or partner maybe less ethical or even legal. I guess someone will use it for that purpose though.Overall a great device for tracking that could be put to many uses - most of which are reasonable.