Chipolo One Ocean Edition review

Our Verdict

Like the Chipolo One, the Chipolo One Ocean Edition is a great key finder with a good out-of-range alarm feature. This version is environmentally friendly, too.

For

Made out of recycled plastic
Loud alarm
Excellent range
Includes out-of-range notifications

Confronting

Battery is hard to replace
Out-of-range notifications triggered inconsistently

Tom's Guide Verdict

Similar the Chipolo One, the Chipolo One Bounding main Edition is a great primal finder with a adept out-of-range alert characteristic. This version is environmentally friendly, too.

Pros

+
Fabricated out of recycled plastic
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Loud alarm
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Excellent range
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Includes out-of-range notifications

Cons

-
Battery is hard to supercede
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Out-of-range notifications triggered inconsistently

You don't accept to sped a lot of time around electronic gadgets to know that there's as well much plastic in the world. When those gadgets stop working, that plastic can wind up in landfills and oceans. Chipolo wants to do something to combat that, so it's making a new variation of its Chipolo One primal finder entirely out of recycled exercise.

Specifically, the Chipolo One Ocean Edition is fabricated out material recovered from angling nets, trawls and ropes institute floating in the oceans and turned into pellets, which and so form the key finder'southward polypropylene plastic instance. Other than that unusual origin story, the Chipolo One Ocean Edition packs the same features every bit the standard Chipolo Ane — and that'south skilful news since that'south one of the all-time key finders you lot tin buy.

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I've had a chance to test out this more environmentally friendly tracking device for this Chipolo One Ocean Edition review. And this device provides everything yous'd get from a regular Chipolo One along with the added satisfaction of helping out the planet.

Chipolo I Ocean Edition review: Toll

The Chipolo One Ocean Edition costs $xxx/£30. That's $5 more than both the standard Chipolo I and the Tile Mate, just $5 less than the Tile Pro, our pick for the best key finder. Y'all tin can purchase the Chipolo One Ocean Edition from Amazon equally well as Chipolo's own website.

For each version of the Chipolo One Ocean Edition sold, Chipolo says it'due south donating $i to Oceanic Global, an organization that promotes body of water conservation efforts.

Chipolo I Body of water Edition review: Features

Chipolo One Ocean Edition specs

Promised range: 200 feet
Tested range:200 feet
Battery Type:Replaceable CR2032
Size: i.5 inches in bore
Geofence Characteristic: Yeah

The Chipolo One Ocean Edition may get its plastic from a different source than the original Chipolo I, but in terms of blueprint, there's nothing separating these two fundamental finders. Similar its sibling, the Chipolo One Sea Edition is a circular disc, 1.5 inches in diameter. Whereas Chipolo offers a host of colors for its $25 tracker, the Sea Edition is bachelor in a deep blue dubbed Bounding main Blue.

The Chipolo One Bounding main Edition works the same as Chipolo's other tracker. Pair the device with your phone over Bluetooth and launch the companion app (Android, iOS) to tap a button and sound a very loud 120-decibel alarm so that you lot can find your keys (or annihilation else you attach the Chipolo One to). You tin double press the Chipolo One Ocean Edition to make your smartphone band in instance you're having a hard time tracking downwards that device.

The Chipolo One Ocean Edition retains all the other features from Chipolo's other devices, including the ability to utilize the fundamental finder to remotely snap a picture by pressing the key finder. But actually Chipolo'southward marquee feature is its ability to send you a notification when you've left the key finder behind. That's included with the Chipolo One Sea Edition — a contrast to a like feature on Tile that's only available via a monthly subscription.

Chipolo 1 Bounding main Edition review: Functioning

I've just been testing the Chipolo One Ocean Edition for a little bit, only I like what I've seen and then far. Leaving the key tracker behind in a public park, I was able to keep a connection between the Chipolo device and my phone from 200 feet away — exactly the range Chipolo promises. I could even hear the alert from that distance, though from nearly 110 feet on, the noise sounded pretty faint to my aging ears.

That'due south particularly impressive operation considering that in the same park 5 months agone, I often had trouble keeping a connectedness with the standard Chipolo One beyond fifty feet. Why the differing functioning betwixt two primal finders that are essentially the aforementioned? I'll chalk it up to the vagaries of Bluetooth and the fact that park was relatively empty and therefore complimentary of any potential interference when I tested the Chipolo One Ocean Edition. I'll go along an middle on the new key tracker to meet if it continues to deliver this extended range.

When I lost a connectedness with the Chipolo One Ocean Edition after wandering beyond 200 feet away, I normally picked the signal support between 120 and 150 anxiety feet away. That's something other key finders sometimes struggle with, so it'south adept to see some consistent performance from Chipolo'southward devices.

Chipolo'southward out-of-range alerts are bully—when they work. I've had some mixed results with the Chipolo One Ocean Edition. In the park, I never got an alarm even when I had wandered more than 300 feet away from the tracker. At habitation, though, I left my keys on my desk for a walk and hadn't even gotten more than than a infinitesimal from the house when a notification flashed up on my iPhone screen.

Chipolo One Ocean Edition review: Battery

Like the Chipolo One, the Ocean Edition features a replaceable CR2032 battery. Chipolo says yous tin can expect to go two years earlier you lot demand to swap out the battery.

I hope the battery lasts as long as possible considering like its sibling, the Chipolo One Bounding main Edition does not make information technology easy to swap batteries. In that location's a small notch on the outer rim of the primal finder that you pop open with a screwdriver or fork tine. Exercise it advisedly, though, because information technology's really easy to scuff upwardly that plastic case.

Chipolo One Ocean Edition review: Verdict

When we previously reviewed the Chipolo 1, we thought it was a very capable alternative to the Tile Pro. That same cess goes for the Chipolo One Ocean Edition, which delivering everything Chipolo'due south other tracker does while too helping reduce some of that plastic floating around in the ocean. You'll pay a little more for the Body of water Edition than y'all would a standard Chipolo One tracker, but the notion that y'all're making a pocket-sized contribution to the environment will appeal to eco-minded shoppers.

Philip Michaels is a senior editor at Tom's Guide. He has strong opinions about Apple, the Oakland Athletics and old movies. Follow him at @PhilipMichaels.