I compared Apple AirTags to competing Bluetooth trackers - including this $2 one

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ZDNET's key takeaways

• All the tags -- ranging in price from $40 to $2.50 -- worked.
• Bluetooth range varied wildly, with the cheaper tag having less than half the range.
• The difference in performance comes down to the quality of the build.

The day that the Apple AirTag arrived was a big day for me. This one product brought to an end one of the biggest frustrations in my life -- wasting time looking for things that had been "misplaced" by… ahem… someone. Within hours, I had AirTags on my keys, in my wallet, my rucksack, and even on things like my electric bike -- and I never looked back.

AirTags also opened the floodgates for third-party finder tags, from fobs to wallet cards, from a range of companies, some already in the tech space and some complete unknowns.

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