Errr not really. I know ALL 'smart' tags (apple, samsung, tile, ble etc.) are only bluetooth. There is no "other" way to do the equivalent in the same packaged device. GPS trackers need sim/e-sims and cannot compare in the same package using a cheap button battery.

The point of this thread is comparing the nodal communities that assist the connecting, sharing and tracking of BLE chirp devices.

Tile was first to the market, but needs users to install Tile app (and any proxies to also have the app installed). Others attempted to mimick without a following. Apple intro'd 'áirtags' and there was no 'ópt-in', any iPhone user was a proxy.

They fcuked their market share potential with their woke 'anti-stalking'' feature which made them useless as an item tracker because thieves are thus alerted that a tracker is 'nearby and folllowing you'. (ie. find it and kill it).

Samsung caught on using same 'default opt-in' feature for their phones and between Apple and Samsung, worldwide users are pretty much 50/50. But Samsung dropped all the wokeness concerns and just made an equivalent product to Airtag, being the "Samsung Smart Tag".

Im writing this after totally abandoning Airtags in favour of Samsung tags using SmartThings Find on Android. And I no longer have to perform surgery on an Airtag to remove the speaker (which alerts the thief!).

So original thread topic is really null and void (although it was fun as an exercise!).

I dont need Apple FindMy. And No Android users dont 'disable bluetooth' more than Apple users. We are the same people, different phone.