Innova Protag Loss Prevention Device Unboxing & Overview
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·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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1,238 words · ~6 min read
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Dash Drive Air AE400. Now, the irony of a product that is designed to uh prevent
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theft of your devices is that it comes in the most like theft proof packaging I
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think I've ever seen. You can't even open the thing. And now I've gone and ripped up the user manual. It's okay
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though cuz we have another one. This is the Anova Pro Tag. So, the idea of this
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is that it's a card-sized device. So, you can see it's quite slim, designed to
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fit in your wallet or your purse or your passport holder or whatever else that
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helps protect your belongings and makes it harder for you to lose your
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smartphone, which I personally think is a good thing. All right. It uses
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Bluetooth. It's compatible with Android and Blackberry smartphones. It can sync
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to your mobile slot and Okay, why don't we just do what it actually does? Okay.
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So, the phone alarm rings when you exceed the predetermined distance from your belongings, which is preset to 10
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m, but can be adjusted. And it allows you to secure your mobile phone to you
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can track down your stolen phone via SMS. If the SIM card is replaced, new
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number details will be sent to you. That's very cool as well. So, it has 150
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hour long battery life and is chargeable via a built-in USB cable. So, let's go
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ahead and have a look at the actual device itself. So, there's three
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different uh buttons or things on here. One looks like an LED indicator. The
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next thing says power/discovery. And the last one says
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distance. So it looks like that's how you configure the distance. Over here
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appears to be the built-in USB connector. So you can slide that out
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with a simple little thumb slider right here. Slide that in and out. And you can
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charge it for that 150 hour battery. So let's go ahead and fire this up. There's
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an app that you install on your phone, obviously. So let's see if we hold that
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down. Look at that. Comes with a little bit. Oh, no. It's flashing blue and red.
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So, we're going to figure out how to use this, and then we're going to do a quick uh test here. So, there's basically
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three main menu things here. So, number one is the settings. So, you can set it
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up to send an SMS to your saved number when the SIM change is detected. And
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then you can also do mobile tracking with SMSing Protag base password to your
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phone's to your mobile number to track your phone's location. So, there's a default password which you can change.
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You can also change your alarm settings, whether you want it to ring on silent,
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and uh what volume you want it to use when the phone itself is on silent. Next
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up, you've got adding Protag devices. So, all you need to do to do this is
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hold power/discovery until it flashes blue and red. So, hopefully that'll
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happen pretty quickly here. There we go. So, blue and red flashing. Then you
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click add device and it works like pretty much any other Bluetooth thing
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where it takes a second and then fires up.
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So, that takes about 10 seconds. And once that's done, it gives you a little popup showing you how it pretty much
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works. So, you can snooze the alarm if you go too far away from the device. So,
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you can set an amount of time. Don't bother me about this for a little bit. You can stop monitoring until you start
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it again manually, or you can immediately continue to monitor it, say
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if you move closer to it, and you're ready to go. Okay, so we've got Protags
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one and two. So, I'm going to go ahead and call this one. I'm going to change
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the little setting here.
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Wallet. Okay. It helps if you spell wallet right. There you go. So, I'm
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going to take this one and put it in my wallet. So, just for comparison, this is
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3 mm, which isn't quite the thickness of a card, but it's the same shape as a
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card, which makes it sort of something that at least can fit in a wallet. My
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wallet's not that big, but it fits in there just fine. So, the Let's go
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through the rest of the settings for our wallet device. So, there's a last disconnected date and time, last known
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location, which you can check, as well as a proximity alert. So, the device is
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already within range, and connected. Uh,
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delete this device. And that is pretty much it. So, let's go ahead and let's go
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ahead and see how it works. So, I'm going to try and leave my wallet on the unboxing table, and I'll take this one
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with me because I don't want anything bad to happen. So, it's time for a
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practical test. Now, while this isn't the sort of thing I'd see myself using
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every day, it's the kind of thing that maybe while I'm traveling would be
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incredibly useful. So, you throw one of them in, say, for example, your luggage.
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You throw one of them in your wallet and hope you don't lose your phone. So,
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unlike the Kensington Proximo, an alarm doesn't go off cuz that one uses little
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fobs that you can put on your keys, for example. And that one has an alarm that
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goes off on the fob that tells you if you left your phone behind, which is
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kind of neat as well, but only works on iPhone 4S and iPhone 5, whereas this one
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is Android. So, there's there's some different sort of uh advantages and
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disadvantages you got away. But I just want to show you guys basically how long
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it'll take for me to go, okay, wallet secured. So, I'm going to put that in
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the pocket where I also have my luggage pro tag. Then, I've got my wallet
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protag, which I put in my wallet. I'm going to accidentally drop my wallet on the concrete and walk away.
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So, we'll see how far I get. I'm at my motorbike. There's B-roll's
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car. And oh, there it goes. So, I can
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snooze the alarm, stop monitoring, or reconnect. So, you lost your belonging
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wallet. Let's go ahead and go back there. And I'm going to try and
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reconnect and see if it can uh see if it can pick that back up for
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me. There we go. wallet is now secured
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and on now that I have been reunited with it. Thank you for checking out my
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unboxing and first look at the Protag. Don't forget to subscribe to Lance Tech for more unboxings, reviews, and other
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