It happens to all of us at one time or another: Our car keys, wallet or bags go “missing” (meaning, generally, that we can’t find them). On Wednesday, Nokia announced Treasure Tag to help you keep track of those items.
Treasure Tag is roughly the size of a matchbox, and it pairs with your Lumia Windows Phone via NFC or Bluetooth, writes Brandon LeBlanc on the Windows Phone Blog. Nokia Treasure Tag will be available at retailers worldwide in April for a recommended retail price of about $29.90. They’ll come in four colors: Cyan, yellow, white and black, and will work with Lumia Windows Phones that have the Lumia Black update.
When Nokia Treasure Tag is paired with your phone, you’ll download the Nokia Treasure Tag app from the Windows Phone Store. Once you get out of range of whatever you have “tagged,” both your Lumia Windows Phone and the Treasure Tag will emit a loud tone to alert you, LeBlanc writes. “If you miss an alert, you can use the Nokia Treasure Tag app to locate what you’ve lost on a map, powered by HERE,” Nokia’s map app.
“You can have up to four different Treasure Tags connected to your Lumia Windows Phone at any given time. And you can assign icons or photos to these Treasure Tags and pin them to your Start screen as they have Live Tiles and are colored to match the Treasure Tag.”
The Nokia Treasure Tag has up to six months of battery life, and the battery is replaceable.
For more on Nokia Treasure Tag, read this blog post from Nokia Conversations. And to read LeBlanc’s full post, head over to the Windows Phone Blog.
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Suzanne Choney
Microsoft News Center Staff