AirTags Said to Be 'Completely Waterproof' and Use Magnetic Charging Like Apple Watch

“Similar magnetic charging”

Ideally they should support Qi wireless charging, and hopefully not another magnetic charger.

What's the expected range? Don't Tiles work over only a few feet? Seems like at that range locating your bike should be easy.

I don't know the expected range of the tag itself but I would guess it to be in the 30' to 100' range. The key is that it is expected to use ANY iPhone (or possibly even iPad or Apple Watch) within that range to locate your AirTag. That means if someone were to steal my bike, I could locate it anytime it was within 30-100' of anyone with an iPhone.

The existing Tile product works in a similar manner but 1) you can only locate a Tile if it is within range of someone who has the Tile app running on their portable device and 2) I do not like Tile's privacy standards - once you install the app they have the ability to track your mobile device anywhere. I trust Apple with my real time location and I know my wireless service provider has that information (nothing I can do about that) but I don't want to give access to that information to a 3rd party like Tile.

Hopefully they’ll only need to be charged every 6-12 months, along the lines of what’s already out there, though.

I hope they use the exact same charger. It would be incredibly annoying to add yet another charger to use these.

I honestly don't understand the hype with these trackers -- it's not something I'd ever need.

well, you should really tell apple this so that they can pull the plug on these...

I am really looking forward to these. I have 2 carbon fiber bicycles I want to put these on.