Tile’s new trackers feature a replaceable battery
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Finally, Tile is giving people what they want. The company announced today that it’s releasing two new Bluetooth trackers that feature replaceable coin cell batteries. Users will be able to swap their batteries out instead of having to replace the tracker entirely. Along with that change, the company is announcing a new subscription service called Tile Premium that’ll cover the cost of replacement batteries and include some other new features.
The revamped Tile Mate and Tile Pro replace the prior models, so every Tile sold now, apart from the Slim, features the replaceable battery. Batteries should last a year before needing to be swapped. Other hardware changes include a longer range — the Mate now extends to 150 feet, up from 100 feet before, and the Pro reaches 300 feet compared to the previous 200 feet — as well as louder ringers.