You may recall that in 2021, Samsung announced the Galaxy SmartTag and SmartTag+ trackers, alongside the Galaxy S21 family. Here is our review of the SmartTag. Back in March, we heard rumors that the Korean giant is looking to update its object tracker later this year. That might just be the case, following a recently leaked certification list for a gadget called the Galaxy SmartTag 2.
Galaxy SmartTag 2 Bluetooth certification
The certification list in question comes from the Bluetooth SIG database. Other than revealing the name of the tracker, it doesn’t actually offer too much additional information. Besides that, the SmartTag 2 will use Bluetooth 5.3 instead of the Bluetooth 5.1 radio in the original SmartTag. Bluetooth 5.3 is an iterative upgrade rather than a major upgrade over 5.1, but it should still offer lower power consumption, less connection interference, and better overall connection quality and security.
Unfortunately, we don’t know anything else about the SmartTag 2 yet. Presumably, Samsung will keep the button on the device and the related ability to program that button to control an IoT device via the phone. We’re also interested to see if there will once again be a separate version of SmartTag 2 that also offers UWB support, similar to SmartTag+, or if every SmartTag 2 will have UWB.
We probably won’t have to wait too long to find out since, if the rumors are true, the new SmartTag 2 should be unveiled at the next Galaxy Unpacked event for Galaxy Z Fold5 and Z Flip5. It will be held in the last week of July.
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