There Are Pandas, and Then There Are Pandas.
And this isn't either of them! The Pandas we're talking about here, are watches, not bears. And what got me thinking about them (again) was a link posted this morning by @cm.rook who pointed a few of us to the very attractive (and not terribly priced) Yema "Rallygraph" Panda which, in it's most traditional arrangement, looks like the one on the left, but can also be had in the version on the right: The model on the left is a true Panda, while the model on the right is called a reverse Panda. The reason for that distinction is clear--Panda bears, only come in the first arrangement. Now at this point, everyone should be thinking about the most well-know Panda, The Rolex Panda, which is actually a Daytona, and among Rolex Daytonas, the most famous of which is the Paul Newman Daytona, which was famous first, because it was Paul's, and second because it sold at auction for $17.8 million (US Dollars). The story of that auction is well-known so I'll only...
Nov 8, 2019
Range? Probably decent.
Decibels? No idea, but passable for finding your keys in a quiet environment. It's not an alarm.
Waterproof? Probably not.
The worst thing about this is that the battery life lasts around a week or two--I'm not sure. I doubt anyone knows who didn't perform some sort of scientific test and checked daily if it was still reporting its position. The device doesn't report its battery level on the device itself, or in the Tile app. There's no low battery warning or indicator. It just goes from working to not working one day. The only way this thing is useful is if you're disciplined enough to plug it in to charge weekly.
I'm not trying to crap on KeySmart. I've bought basically every incarnation of their products up to and including this. From the regular KeySmart, to the extended one, to extra spacers and extensions to hold more keys, etc. But they really dropped the f'ing ball on this one. A regular tile uses a CR2032 and lasts a year. This thing uses a rechargeable battery and doesn't last 1/10th that, with absolutely no warning of when it needs to be recharged. How they're still peddling this shit boggles my mind. Stay away!
I still use mine, but since the battery is dead most of the time, it's sort of an unnecessarily large version of a regular KeySmart. I should swap my keys back to a regular extended KeySmart and use a regular Tile, but I'm too lazy.