Samsung Galaxy Ring Review: One Ring to Rule Them All

Like astir fitness tracking rings, Samsung’s Galaxy Ring has been positioned arsenic a minimalist wellness wearable for radical who don’t privation the pings and buzzes of a wrist-worn smartwatch oregon fitness tracker. But that’s lone portion of its appeal. Its existent entreaty is that it’s a supplemental wearable if you already person a Galaxy Watch and a Galaxy phone.

When I received my tester, I instantly charged it and added it to Samsung’s Health app, wherever it joined my Samsung Galaxy Watch Ultra. You tin elite to nonstop battery-intensive tasks to either the ticker oregon the ringing to prevention artillery beingness connected 1 oregon the other. I delegated heart-rate monitoring to the watch, and aft 2 days, the ring’s artillery beingness was inactive astatine 97 percent.

I can’t deliberation of immoderate different devices that enactment unneurotic that seamlessly for specified an immediate, quantifiable improvement. I did comparison the Ring’s measurements to an Apple Watch Ultra, which I volition sermon later, but aft a fewer days, I switched backmost to the Galaxy Watch. This is what the ringing was made for, truthful this is the astir due investigating scenario.

Box It Out

Even from the archetypal unboxing, the Galaxy Ring compared favorably to the Oura Ring. It arrives successful an awesome wide charging lawsuit with a USB-C connector that snaps unopen with a cover. I emotion this cover. You would not judge however often I negociate to sound the Oura Ring disconnected its charger erstwhile it’s sitting connected my desk. You tin besides cheque the artillery level by putting the ringing connected the charger. An LED astir the perimeter shows the ring’s artillery level, dissimilar the Oura, whose airy conscionable shows if the artillery is afloat oregon not.

The Ring is titanium and comes successful 3 finishes; I tested the titanium silver. Samsung has a sizing usher accordant with different fittingness tracker rings arsenic I was bucketed into my accustomed size 8. Like astir different rings of this type, it has an array of sensors connected the inside; a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensor with 3 LEDs to way changes successful humor volume, an accelerometer, and a tegument somesthesia sensor.

I can’t consciousness immoderate of these sensors erstwhile wearing the ring. I don’t mind wearing the Oura Ring, but the Galaxy Ring is much than a gram lighter and is noticeably thinner and lightweight. As a bonus, you tin spell into your Health app connected your Samsung telephone and click Find My Ring and the LEDs volition commencement flickering! You can’t spot them successful daylight, but astatine slightest the institution has acknowledged that 1 of the large problems with astute rings is however often you suffer the darn things. I support taking excavation disconnected mindlessly to lavation dishes, assistance thing heavy, oregon play the violin. It’s besides rated astatine 10 ATM and IP68, and I person kept excavation connected portion swimming and paddling with my kids.

The artillery beingness depends connected however galore tasks you privation to outsource to your watch. If I’m wearing my Galaxy Watch, the Galaxy Ring lasts implicit a week. Without it, it lasted a modular 3 to 5 days of continuous tracking.

On Period

The Galaxy Ring measures a reasonably akin acceptable of metrics to the Oura Ring. For example, it offers an Energy Score, which is akin to Oura’s Readiness Score successful that it takes successful respective factors, similar your slumber clip and consistency and the erstwhile day’s activity, and spits retired an easy-to-understand fig to amusement you however acceptable you are to tackle the day.

To bash that, it tracks your sleep. You tin click done the Samsung Health app to cheque your slumber stages, including however agelong you’ve been awake, your humor oxygen, and whether you’re snoring. It usually records much slumber clip than my Apple Watch Ultra; I’m guessing it’s easier for the ticker to archer that I’m speechmaking successful furniture alternatively of sleeping erstwhile my limb is holding my Kindle up to my face.