Following a teaser during its Unpacked event in October, Samsung has officially unveiled its newest Samsung Galaxy Ring, a health-tracking smart ring that can monitor heart rate, sleep as well as respiration when it goes on sale later in the year.
The ring is Samsung’s initial venture into the growing smart ring market, and is designed to enhance its existing wearables such as Samsung’s Galaxy Watch series.
Samsung declares that it has incorporated all of its technological innovations into the most compact form that you can wear for the entire day.
Samsung has unveiled Galaxy Ring. Samsung has shown off Galaxy Ring in three colours that include platinum silver, ceramic black and gold.
The rings is concave and has a large profile like the other smart rings however, Samsung claims that it is lightweight.
It’s available in sizes ranging from 5 to 13 and will be marked with the letters S-XL within the band, according to the Verge.
The ring has a tiny battery with a range of 14.5mAh at the lowest size, the range to 21.5mAh for the biggest.
Galaxy Ring monitors your health throughout the day and night. Galaxy Ring tracks your health throughout the day and at night.
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The Galaxy Ring will monitor an assortment of health indicators thanks to its sensor array built-in Samsung’s Hon Pak explained.
The ring is capable of providing readings on heart rate, respiratory rates and the amount of movement that occurs during sleep, as well as the length of time it takes for an individual to fall asleep when they are asleep.
The ring can also offer cycle and fertility monitoring via integration with the current Samsung partner application, Natural Cycles, Pak confirmed.
Dr. Pak stated that the ring would offer an “vitality score” designed to “collect data about physical and mental readiness to see how productive you can be.”
The metric will assess the amount of sleep, activity, resting heart rate, as well as heart rate variability to assess the energy levels of the user and their preparedness for the day.
Users will get personalized health tips and advice via new “Booster Cards” in the Samsung Health app, Pak announced.
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They will use information from the ring as well as Samsung’s AI to provide scientifically-validated advice.
Samsung has also announced that it’s working on an AI-powered virtual health advisor. The proposed “coach” would provide personalized health advice and motivation based on data gathered by all the users’ Samsung health information, Pak told CNBC.
In discussing AI coaching plans, Pak emphasized the necessity of a digital assistant coach in the future, stating, ‘We believe it’s absolutely essential.
It works with works with Galaxy ecosystem Galaxy Ring isn’t going to exist as a separate device. It will work with Samsung’s larger collection of health-related wearables.
Pak clarified, “Wearing both devices enhances the accuracy of sleep staging performance, such as the classification of five different sleep stages, as observed with Samsung’s Galaxy Ring and the Galaxy Watch.”
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Dr. Pak has stated that the ring would be compatible with the majority of Galaxy smartphones.
Support to additional Android devices is planned in the future. The Ring could not work with iPhones as the case was used with recent Galaxy Watch models.
Samsung sees the ring as part of a future ambient sensing that will see a variety of devices gather data on health to provide complete information about the well-being of the user, Pak said.
As Samsung presented the near-finished Galaxy Ring prototypes at Mobile World Congress Samsung, the company has been evasive regarding when the ring will be released and the amount it will cost. We know that it’s due later in the year, and that’s when we’ll find out more about it.
