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Concerned about forgetting your smartphone, but just as concerned about the privacy implications of tracking devices like an Apple AirTag or Tile unit? Then you'll love the simple, elegant Prox PRD Phone Reminder Device. It's a tiny gizmo you keep on your keychain or bag and beeps if it gets too far away from your smartphone. No app, no registration, no tracking. Just a simple separation sensor. Tech expert Dave Taylor checks it out and finds it's a pretty slick solution to a surprisingly common problem.
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You'll never leave your phone behind with this device involved
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Let's check it out. Dave Taylor here, and I have a smartphone
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You probably have one too. And there's nothing more frustrating and upsetting than realizing you've lost it
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It is actually pretty darn easy to leave this somewhere and not realize it
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Enter this. This modest little square is the Prox PRD phone reminder device. And it's really simple. It's a low power
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Bluetooth device that pairs with your smartphone, iOS, Android, iPhone, whatever it is. It pairs with the
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phone. There's no app. There's no tracking. There's no user tracking. They have screens for false
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alerts. All sorts of cool stuff are going on. But basically, if
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they get too far apart, this starts to beep. How would that work? Well, one logical place to put this
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is on your briefcase or computer bag, but putting it on your keychain tends to be really smart
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because then you have your keys probably on you almost all the time, but here's where the
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smarts get involved, right? So you walk in the house, you put your keys, this is on the keychain
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you put your keys right by the front door, you walk into the far back corner of your backyard. Are
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you far enough apart that the sensor should go off? Well, in a dumb sensor it would, but this has
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a lot of smarts because it has a mode where it takes into account the accelerometer data in
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the device and it would say, hey, I think we're home because this device isn't moving anywhere
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So really, really interesting idea. It has lots of different settings. You can set it to trigger
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from about 10 feet all the way to about 150 feet. And I'll give you
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a demo in just a second But the idea is that if you have a big house then you might have this be set to like the middle range right So if you more than 50 feet away from your phone which is pretty far you left it at the supermarket and you outside at your car and this thing on your keychain starts to like beep and tell you hey there a problem
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You're like, what's that sound? And you're like, where's my phone? Right
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So that's exactly what this is designed for. And it's just an incredibly well-designed little product
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So you can adjust things like the distance. You can adjust the alarm sound
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There's a bunch of different chirps and beeps and whines and claxons and all this stuff
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And on the back, this is a great design. On the back, it actually gives you a little reminder of all the main features
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and has a little QR code so you could just pull up the user guide
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So really easy to work with. And you think, well, what if someone else does that
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And it's like, it doesn't have an app. It's not like the Apple Air tag or any of the other sort of tile tags and stuff out there
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This is not a tracking device. This is a phone reminder device
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It's a separation alert system. And from a privacy perspective, this is fantastic because it only cares that it's actually within a certain distance of your phone and nothing else matters
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Right? And handy little additional feature is that I'll show you this. If you double click it
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hi mom, if you double click it, it actually ends up being a remote selfie monitor. And that's just a natural feature of the way Bluetooth works
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So handy, I wouldn't get this because it's a remote phone camera clicker, but because it actually will remind you of separation
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So let's go ahead. I'm going to do a demo and you'll see how this works
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All right, so my phone is in the house and I have the tag on my keychain
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Now I already about 10 feet apart from my phone but let see how much further I have to go to have this trigger And shouldn take much distance for this thing to suddenly wake up and say
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Hey, where's your phone? The problem is, is I have a very quiet Bluetooth environment
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There we go. So it's just like, hey, hey, hey, guess what
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You don't have your phone. So that's exactly the alert I want. And here's what's interesting is that as I get closer, when I get within a few feet
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actually have a different sound. So I'm going to go off camera, but I'm going to let you hear the audio of it actually reconnecting
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from your phone, it will alert you and you can remember find your phone and not end up
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where you're miles away and you realize, I think I left it in the bathroom at the gas station
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right? That would be a disaster. So having this and having this set to a relatively short distance
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is really smart. So lots to like here. In particular, the whole privacy side of this is fantastic
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It is not a competitor or a replacement for an Apple Air Tag or a tile tag
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It's a different device, but it offers up a very similar functionality
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And as Prox likes to say, if you've lost your phone, you can't really use these devices because you lost your phone
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Not entirely true, but suffice to say, this makes sure you don't lose your phone in a way that like an Apple Air Tag can't
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So definitely one to check out. This is a great thing if you have someone in your family that tends to keep losing their phone
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That's school or at work or at a friend's house. Something like this on a keychain or a purse or something will work great Now I should tell you it has a one battery life and it a very simple There a little slot here You just pop it open and it takes a CR watch battery
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which you can pick up really at, like, Walgreens, CVS, Target, Best Buy
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It's a very widely available battery, and once a year, it's pretty painless, right
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So, not much else to tell you about. We should talk about the price
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Now, this is the Prox PRD phone reminder device and it is 3995 at Amazon.com
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Now, that might sound a tiny bit spendy for such a simple little device, but how much would you pay
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when you realize you've lost your phone, how much would you pay to recover it
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Right? So that's where this thing is such a win. And it's absolutely a set and forget
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If your phone dies, if your phone needs to be recharged, if you turn off Bluetooth because you're in airplane mode
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it's smart enough to understand all of those scenarios. And it won't start beeping while you're just on the plane and you just went into airplane mode
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So they've thought all that through, and that's a super big benefit
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So that's all I got. This is the PRD also known as the phone reminder device or phone separation alert device and hey, you know our phones probably have separation anxiety too. This helps them express that. That's all I got. So I'll hope to catch you in my next video
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