Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “Samsung Galaxy Ring: Will it replace your smartwatch?”.
With the announcement of the Galaxy S, 24s Samsung gave us a tease of something new that we hadn’t ever seen before, and this was the Galaxy ring, but who would want a Galaxy ring and why would you want a Galaxy Ring? There have been rumors for a while of Samsung releasing a smart ring and we saw patents of this all the way back in 2022, but at unpack Samsung revealed that at some point in the future we are going to see what they are calling the Galaxy Ring Comp to the mass market and really what we saw on stage is what we know. We don’t know any price release date specs, we kind of know nothing, but it did get me thinking. Where would a smart ring fit in to Samsung’s wearable lineup? If you have a Samsung phone, then the best way to track your health is through the Samsung Health app and getting yourself a Galaxy watch, and this can help you track a load of things like workouts, ECG, blood, oxygen and sleep tracking. But the one part of this is that you always have to be wearing a watch even when, when you sleep to get accurate data when it comes to health tracking and you need to make sure that it’s charged every single day. But there are some plus points.
I think to a smaller Rings: siiz tracker that would really temp people into the wearable market and, let’s take, for example, sleep tracking. I absolutely love tracking my sleep every single night. I love seeing how long I’m actually asleep for deep sleep light sleep. All of that, but the one downside to wanting to track my sleep is that I always have to be wearing a watch and it just feels uncomfortable and a little bit unnatural to be wearing a watch in bed. But if I got the chance to wear a Galaxy ring that is a little bit more discreet, not as clunky on the wrist and kind of forget is there then the sleep tracking. I think, then, would be really enhanced, because a I’m going to get a better sleep when I don’t have something on my wrist and B you’re able to track your health and sleep data without even thinking about it and the idea of not having a screen on Your wrist, so you can just leave notifications behind and just truck what needs to be trucked, I think, would be a really welcome addition to the Samsung wearable lineup.
The Galaxy Ring, presumably would be using that Samsung Health, app and it’ be vital for setting up the ring and tracking all of your health data in there as well. But one of the biggest things that Samsung has been working on in the past couple of years and really putting a lot of resources into is refining that Samsung Health app and one of the refinements within that app is sleep tracking. And if you go back to the unpacked event, where the s24su saw a good part of the unpacked event, Focus specifically on how Samsung have been working on the sleep part of the app and how it’s bringing more indepth data by using Galaxy Ai and just doing Small refinements and the next logical step here seems to be moving into this new wearable part of the market by getting a Galaxy Ring. Smart Rings aren’t new, though, to the wearable World we’ve seen them around for years, but the biggest player in this market by far is a company called Aura, and you can only imagine that Samsung have taken a lot of inspiration from Aura when creating their Galaxy ring. But Aura CEO tip Hae, isn’t worried about new competitions, saying that new players in the space only make them aim higher for their current members and having a look at Aura gives us the biggest idea of how we think that that Galaxy Ring might actually work when It comes to buying that Galaxy ring. It could do something similar to Aura where Ora offer a sizing kit before placing that order to make sure that the ring fits perfectly and Samsung might do something similar in this as well, because it will offer different sizes to make sure it can fit everybody. But in terms of how it works, works and tracks your movements and activity again, I imagine this inspiration was taken from Aura because in the aura ring you have a 3D accelerometer to track movement in the hand, and this apparently gives more accurate readings on workouts steps And sleep and there’s a place here where the Galaxy Ring might stand out, because if you order an aura ring, you have to pay a monthly membership to be able to get indepth sleep, tracking information and other bits of information that that ring can track. But you’d imagine that when Samsung released their Galaxy Ring they’re not going to be charging that monthly membership and overall the integration into the Samsung Health app is going to be the biggest sell for people who already have a Galaxy watch. It’Ll be really interesting to see how Samsung priced this Galaxy ring when we eventually see it – and I think it’ll be a really interesting addition to the Samsung wearable lineup. But I don’t think that it’s going to be something to replace your Galaxy watch. In fact, I think it’s going to be an extension of that Galaxy watch rather than a replacement. The Galaxy Ring can have better battery life than a Galaxy watch, and it could actually even give you more accurate readings than a Galaxy watch does. But I don’t see it offering any smart home integration and also it doesn’t have a screen which, for some people, I think, is really important, whereas for others they do just want to get down to the Bare Bones of tracking activity. So this could be something that people really are interested in, but let me know what do you think about the Galaxy Ring? Do you think it would be a replacement for your Galaxy watch and is it something that you would even pick up? Let me know in the comments below and before you head off. Why not subscribe to the website as well, and if you do that, we’ll see you in the next article .