Samsung officially launched the Galaxy smart ring during its summer Unpacked event on July 9, 2024, becoming the first major smartphone manufacturer to venture into smart rings, a market Apple has yet to enter.

The ring features three sensors to track heart rate, blood oxygen levels, skin temperature, and other data, which can be used to understand health status, monitor sleep quality, analyze snoring and sleep movements, heart rate, and respiratory rate.

Artificial intelligence converts this data into useful information/insighs. It can detect your sleep pattern and suggest solutions to improve it by understanding this pattern and knowing solutions from a large, well-studied population. It can also suggest a suitable diet and exercise routine to improve your health and sleep quality.

In this way, Samsung does not just give you abstract information about your body’s biological state but provides useful and understandable information that deserves attention. Of course, your information is not processed on the ring but is sent via a connected Samsung phone to be processed on Samsung’s cloud.

The Galaxy Ring is lightweight and comfortable, so you won’t even feel it. It can be worn all the time, even when swimming, as it is water-resistant and made of titanium. It comes in three colors: gold, silver, and black, and nine sizes, and its weight does not exceed 3 grams for the largest size.

Samsung says it needs to be charged only once a week, and its battery can be recharged hundreds of times.

It costs $400 and requires a Samsung phone specifically. No additional subscription is required to use it and analyze the data. Just buy the ring and a Samsung phone.

This makes the Galaxy Ring the first competitor to the Oura ring, the leader in the field, which relies on a $6 monthly subscription but works with any smartphone.

Overall, the Samsung Galaxy Ring is a promising new entry into the smart ring market. It offers a comprehensive set of health tracking features, AI-powered insights, and a comfortable design. However, its high price and limited compatibility with Samsung phones may deter some potential buyers.