While Android’s Find Hub network still has plenty of deficiecies in terms of actual performance, the hardware continues to improve. Recently, Pebblebee introduced its Gen 5 series with new Card and Clip trackers, and they continue to raise the bar on hardware quality.
Pebblebee was one of the first brands to support Find Hub – at the time still called “Find My Device.” The original trio of Clip, Card, and Tag, offered a solid foundation which the company is now expanding on by addressing some key downsides.
Starting with the Pebblebee Clip 5, this is a rather straightforward update. The overall hardware has been slightly refined in terms of the design, but more notably given a splash of color. Pebblebee plans to release new color options for the Clip every few months, and if they’re anything like this initial “Emerald Storm,” that’s going to be quite fun.
Functionally, I’m glad the new Pebblebee Clip is overall mostly like the prior one. It still charges over USB-C, has a detachable clip, and now has a noticeably brighter LED and louder speaker. Overall, great stuff here especially seeing as the $35 price remains the same.
The bigger upgrade for me, personally, has been the Pebblebee Card 5.
This new tracker fixes the biggest problem I had with the original – charging. Pebblebee deserves to be applauded for making a rechargeable card tracker when it did, but Qi was always the obvious answer here. You simply can’t fit a non-proprietary charger on a device like this, and because you only have to charge it once or twice a year, it’s very easy to misplace that charger. Adding Qi just makes sense.
More important is the fact that, somehow, Pebblebee trimmed down the size quite a bit. The new tracker is “30% thinner” than the previous one, which basically just means that it’s super thin. I use a Peak Design wallet that’s usually stuffed to the brim, but swapping out my previous Rolling Square tracker – which was roughly the same size as Pebblebee’s last release – for the Pebblebee Card 5 led to some quick relief.
As far as I’m concerned, the Pebblebee Card 5 is the wallet tracker to beat, because every fraction of a hair counts in this form factor.
And, despite those two major improvements, this one is also still rocking the same $35 price point.
More on Find Hub:
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- This new Find Hub wallet tracker from UGreen is ultra-thin with 5-year battery life
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