Galaxy Ring
Samsung Galaxy Ring’s Standout Feature Surpasses Apple Watch
Last month, Samsung debuted its first wearable smart ring, the Galaxy Ring. The reviews are fortunate since it beats an Apple Watch in one major way.
Samsung delivered the Galaxy Ring with a powerful package of digital health monitoring and tracking features. However, several options for smart rings are already available in markets, such as Oura and Motiv.
Samsung took time to debut its first wearable smart ring, but in the end, the dealy worth it, as it offers a superior user experience than its rivals and even a few smartwatches. The giant offers AI capabilities, specifically for health and wellness tracking, which have yielded tangible benefits for users, surpassing the insights provided by Apple Watch.
The Galaxy AI features impressive AI-driven health insights, along with a comfortable design and effective stress management tools, which set it apart from rivals such as the Apple Watch.
The Galaxy Ring tracks stress accurately. It uses heart rate variability (HRV) from its optical bio-signal sensor. Whenever stress spikes, the ring offers guided breathing exercises to help users relax. Users can also customize these exercises for duration and intensity.
The Apple Watch can also track HRV and has a significant guided breathing exercise in its mindfulness application. Unlike the Galaxy Ring, Apple doesn’t highlight stress levels or provide actionable insight based on HRV data.
However, a notable drawback of the Galaxy Ring is that it consistently overestimates steps compared to other wearables. Apart from this, it features dozens of functionalities to offer the best experience with Samsung smartphones and smartwatches. On the other side, OS users have limited functionality.
Samsung introduces its ever-first smart wearable ring under the title Galaxy Ring. It features a decent design and dozens of new convenient features, including advanced health monitoring features, for free. Now the brand is gearing up to add more features to enhance the experience, but with a subscription.
Before the official launch of the Galaxy Ring, leaks and rumors aggressively reported that the brand would ask customers to subscribe to experience all the features of the Galaxy Ring. However, the rumor goes against the official revelation, as Samsung lets you use all the features of the Galaxy Ring for free without any subscription.
The Samsung Galaxy Ring is slightly more expensive in comparison to its rivals. But in a way, it’s high-cost and worth it as it does not require a subscription fee to use its features. However, subscriptions will no longer be the case for the Galaxy Ring as soon as the new features are available. It will ask you to pay for a subscription to experience upcoming features.
The Galaxy Ring features a huge variety of health sensors, including a heart rate monitor, sleep tracker, blood oxygen saturation tracker, pedometer, and so on. These sensors are truly beneficial for health and fitness monitoring data, including continuous sleep and heart rate monitoring, activity tracking, workout tracking, cycle tracking, and many more.
Samsung at the Galaxy Unpacked event assured that the current Samsung Health features are free. However, a footnote on one of the presentation slides mentioned an important clarification: this guarantee only applies to “currently available Samsung Galaxy features.” Plus, for “future Samsung Health features,” the Korean giant warns that the current terms and conditions may change later. It remains to be seen how much charge the giant will ask to pay for a subscription.
Samsung debuted its ever-first smart wearable ring called the Galaxy Ring. It is only compatible with Galaxy smartphones, which is not the actual case anymore. It also supports non-Galaxy devices.
Previously, it was rumored that the Galaxy Ring would only be compatible with Samsung Galaxy devices, but the rumor went wrong. Ritually, the Korean giant releases its smart wearable Galaxy device free from compatibility limitations to connect with non-Samsung devices effortlessly.
Following the ritual, Samsung added seamless connectivity compatibility to its first smart ring, the Galaxy Ring. This means that to connect to the Galaxy Ring, you just need any Android smartphone instead of a particular Samsung device.
A post on X was shared by M. Brandon Lee, transparently revealing that the newly launched Galaxy Ring can work on any Android device. You just need to install the Galaxy Wearable app to connect and go through the setup process. He also shared a video in the post revealing that he connected his Galaxy Ring with a Nothing smartphone, which means that the Samsung Galaxy device is not recommended.
On the other side, another report is teasing that the Galaxy Ring would also support iPhones lately. It will be interesting to see whether this report comes true.
The Galaxy Rings feature multiple sensors, including an accelerometer, a bioactive sensor, and a temperature sensor. All of these sensors can monitor, measure, and track your heart rate, sleep, temperature, and workouts. You can use it for up to 6-7 days on a single charge.
It is available in three color variants, including titanium black, titanium gold, and titanium silver. You have nine choices to select your ring size between 5 and 13.
Finally, Samsung announced its first wearable smart ring, the Galaxy Ring, at the launch event. The brand has designed it in a way that is compatible with giving more accurate health statistics.
The Korean brand has debuted its ever-first health-tracking, comfortable-wearing smart ring called the Galaxy Ring. This latest ring uses Samsung’s sensor technology for seamless 24/7 health monitoring.
The newly launched Galaxy Ring just weighs between 2.3 and 3 grams based on its size. It features up to 10 ATM water resistance, a grade 5 titanium finish, and a concave surface, resulting in a decent design. The giant has made the ring available in three color variants, which are as follows:
- Titanium Black
- Titanium Silver
- Titanium Gold
To easily select the perfect size, the giant offers a special kit that makes it easy for you to choose the suitable size from nine available sizes, from US 5 to US 13. The brand made the kit available free of charge while purchasing. Plus, it also offers sample rings that are used exclusively for measurement.
The Galaxy Ring features at least 18 mAh of battery power, which will last for up to seven days, as the brand claims. It will track sleep and offer analysis through Samsung Health. It is integrated with AI to understand sleep patterns and give suggestions on how to improve the sleep schedule.
It will offer a sleep score, snoring analysis, movement tracking, sleep onset time, heart rate, and breathing rate for detailed metrics of sleep quality. Noticeably, you can access all the functionality without a subscription.
The Samsung Galaxy Ring is smartly integrated with Galaxy AI to offer detailed health insights such as sleep, activity, heart rate, and more. It can analyze energy scores and offer personalized wellness tips. It can monitor skin temperature during the night for a better understanding of the menstrual cycle.
You can easily locate your ring in case you misplace it via the Find My Ring function of Samsung Find. Interestingly, you can take pictures easily by double-tapping the ring or turning off alarms on your connected Samsung phone.
Samsung has made the Galaxy Ring available for pre-order in select markets. It will also be available in Italy. It costs 449 euros for the European market.