Best Buy Best Buy: Pre-Order the New Tile Mate (2018) Bluetooth Item Tracker 4 Pack & Google Home Mini for $69.99 Tile Mate (4 Pack) & Google Home Mini $69.99
get this dealGadget fans won't want to miss this limited time pre-order deal from Best Buy Canada. You'll receive four (4) of the new Tile Mate bluetooth item trackers AND the popular Google Home Mini for the low price of $69.99.
Available with the Google Home Mini in Chalk or Charcoal colours.
Tile Mate is the perfect device for those of us who tend to lose things. You can attach it to keychains or almost any other item and sound an audible alarm on the Tile Mate via your smartphone. It also works in reverse and allows you to find your smartphone using your Tile Mate. The new 2018 edition adds a replaceable battery to extend its product life.
Google Home Mini is a voice-activated smart home speaker which can be setup to perform many different functions. Got a question? Just say "Hey Google" and ask away. It also integrates with many smart home devices such as lightbulbs and thermostats.
Best Buy lists the Tile Mate 4 Pack for $69.99 so you're essentially getting a Google Home Mini for free. The release date for this bundle is November 14th.
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View allThat being said, the Echo was updated recently and is arguably worth more than the 2017 Google Home Mini, although the eye of the beholder would apply.
I could not justify the 50 percent price increase for the tile pro, but hopefully the mate is loud enough for my usage. Has anyone tried the Tile subscription service?
https://m.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/tile ... e/13041801
They’ve updated so that you can add either the Google Home Mini or the Echo
Tile Mate 2018 w/ Google mini is in stock in stores $69.99
Tile Pro w/ Google mini is on preorder $109.99
https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/category/i ... 61133.aspx?
As far as I can remember, the prices from Tile are in USD and do not include shipping or customs/taxes. So it's worse than buying them from BB or Amazon.
I don't think these products complement each other in any way, other than they make great gifts assuming the receiver doesn't already have more than they need. I suppose you could stick it on top of the Google Mini in case you forget where you store it while deciding who to give it to.
https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/ti ... 41801.aspx
In the USA Tile is giving away an Echo Dot.
https://www.thetileapp.com/en-us/store/tiles/mate
Edit: here I've been touching my phone to find my TV remote like some sort of Luddite from 2017. You can set up Tile to use Hey Google or Alexa: https://www.thetileapp.com/en-us/blog/h ... -with-tile
Edit 2. No Alexa Tile skill in Canada? Would explain why Bestbuy is giving out the Google Mini instead.
Thanks!
Essentially, you are paying for a tracker that has 90-95% of the Bluetooth tracker market (therefore largest crowd finding network). Through the power of crowd finding, technically you can get notifications of where your Tile has last been seen by your phone. The 'Notify if found' option, enables other Tile users to ping your Tile and report the location (last seen) automatically to you (ping Tile with app closed is an option in the application). If your in an urban area, New York for an example, has about 45,271 users in a radius of approximately 5-6km (radius is my estimate, number of users is from here). In my city, there's about 1,500 to 1,900 users, numbers will vary by city and density of the surrounding area.
Tile seems to understand that more people are using it to track luggage and has started partnering with airports to install trackers (so far one airport has been used for field testing). The only question is will more places, airports, public spaces, etc., be more willing to partner with Tile in order to expand their tracking service. Or whether or not it will expand after the field testing.
I think you are putting the wrong item in your cart. The bundle for $69.99 is no longer listed. You need to add the tile mate (2018) 4 pack and the google home mini to your cart, so two separate items.
https://www.bestbuy.ca/en-ca/product/ti ... 41801.aspx
My order hasn't shipped yet and it looks like the 4pack product page is gone.
I was at costco yesterday and they had a bundle that had 2xSlim, 2xMate and 2xPro for $99.99 which seems like a decent deal. I'm not sure if the Mate is the 2018 version.