The Samsung Galaxy Ring was Samsung’s debut sensible ring and a formidable first-generation effort that gave sensible ring followers a robust different to the much-loved Oura Ring.
It provided a likeable design and moveable charger, good battery life and strong general monitoring with out the necessity for a paid subscription to get the most effective out of it. Total, it was our favorite sensible ring of 2024.
We’re totally anticipating the Galaxy Ring’s successor, the Samsung Galaxy Ring 2, to be within the offing and will construct on the nice work Samsung’s already finished with its first sensible ring.
Right here’s what we all know concerning the subsequent Samsung Galaxy Ring thus far.
When will the Samsung Galaxy Ring 2 be launched?
The Samsung Galaxy Ring was first teased in January 2024 earlier than being proven off behind glass at MWC 2024 a month later. Its official launch lastly happened on 10 July 2024.
It appears Samsung might be planning an identical timeline with hypothesis that the Galaxy Ring 2 will mak an look at Samsung’s Unpacked 2025 occasion on 22 January alongside the Galaxy S25 sequence of telephones.
This might point out that Samsung will undertake an identical reveal and launch strategy to its first ring and make us wait till the Summer season to make its second-generation ring that can be purchased.
Nevertheless, there’s an opportunity it started working on the Ring 2 rapidly and it’ll put it on sale sooner than the unique.
How a lot will the Samsung Galaxy Ring 2 value?
Till Samsung is able to speak Galaxy Ring 2 formally it’s a little bit of a guessing sport on the Galaxy Ring 2 pricing.
We predict Samsung will seemingly follow a subscription-free mannequin, which implies you’ll have to pay only for the ring. The primary Galaxy Ring was priced at £399/$399.99 making it one of the vital costly sensible rings out there.
It will be shocking if Samsung bumped the worth of the Ring 2, except it determined to go down the luxurious route like Oura, when it collaborated with Guuci and launched a higher-grade model of its Ring 3. That collaboration pushed the worth in direction of the £1,000/$1,000 mark.
There’s additionally the freshly introduced UItrahuman Uncommon which begins at £1,500 however it feels way more seemingly for Samsung to enchantment to the plenty.
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What specs and options will the Samsung Galaxy Ring 2 have?
There’s already been some hypothesis round what to anticipate from the subsequent Galaxy Ring 2, however we will analyse the competitors to get a way of what is likely to be coming for Samsung’s second-generation sensible ring to ensure it’s nonetheless competing with the competitors.
Extra sizes
Like all sensible rings, getting match is integral to gathering essentially the most correct information out of your finger.
It had been recommended by well-known leaker Max Jambor that the unique Galaxy Ring would get further sizes in 2025, with Samsung tipped so as to add measurement 14 and measurement 15 ring choices.
DigiTimes now means that these new sizes are being prepped for the Galaxy Ring 2. Including these ring sizes would give Samsung 11 in complete, only one much less measurement possibility than the Oura Ring 4.
Larger battery life
Whereas Samsung has already served up significantly higher battery life than the Oura Ring primarily based on our testing, it’s truly not the sensible ring with the most effective battery life efficiency.
That honour goes to the RingConn Gen 2 (although the newly introduced Luna Ring Gen 2 touts 30 days).
Coupled with new ring sizes, Samsung may look to spice up battery additional and match that finest performer to offer you one more reason to choose it over the additionally cheaper and slimmer RingConn sensible ring.
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ECG
The present Galaxy Ring already gives optical-based coronary heart charge monitoring, although provided that rival sensible ring maker Round has since launched its Round Ring 2 with an ECG that’s able to detecting indicators of atrial fibrillation, this might be one rival function Samsung might look to match.
Samsung has included an ECG sensor on its Galaxy Watches for a number of generations now and should look so as to add it to its ring as effectively, which might improve its well being monitoring enchantment.
Sleep apnea detection
Some of the compelling causes to choose a wise ring over a smartwatch is that it’s way more comfy and discreet to take to mattress and observe your sleep. The sleep monitoring efficiency on the Galaxy Ring is fairly strong as effectively.
Samsung unveiled in 2024 that the newest Samsung Galaxy Watches had acquired De Novo authorization from the USA Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) for its sleep apnea function. That function can detect indicators of reasonable to extreme obstructive sleep apnea when monitoring sleep over two nights.
It is a function that doesn’t seem on every other sensible ring, so could be a giant win for Samsung if they’ll handle so as to add it to its newest ring.
Issues we wish to see from the Samsung Galaxy Ring 2
We’ve given you a way of what to anticipate from the subsequent Galaxy Ring, but when we had an inventory of issues we’d wish to see introduced when Samsung makes that huge reveal what could be on it?
Right here’s what’s prime of that checklist:
Thinner, extra engaging design
Don’t get us flawed, the Samsung Galaxy Ring is a nice-looking sensible ring and extra scratch-resistant than rivals, however so far as being mistaken for an precise ring, it’s not fairly there but.
For starters, it may gain advantage from having a slimmer physique, placing it extra according to thinner sensible rings just like the RingConn Gen 2 and the newest Oura Ring. The titanium end on sure fashions does make the Ring appear extra plastic than metallic, so we’d wish to see the Galaxy Ring 2 transfer to one thing that feels and appears extra high-grade.
Some further color choices could be good too. At present, there’s silver, black and gold, which appear to be the go-to sensible ring shades. We wouldn’t be in opposition to Samsung attempting one thing a bit totally different with these color choices to assist the Galaxy Ring 2 stand out for the proper causes.
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Improved companion app
The Galaxy Ring makes use of the identical companion apps as Samsung’s Galaxy smartwatches and whereas that makes it simpler to handle it in case you’re utilizing each Galaxy Watch and Galaxy Ring collectively, we’d wish to see a extra ring-centric consumer interface that makes the Galaxy Ring really feel much less like simply one other Samsung wearable.
Whether or not it’s displaying information otherwise on display screen or just making the expertise of utilizing it really feel distinctive, this might make delving into the app a extra inviting and interesting factor to do when needing to verify your sleep stats or each day exercise monitoring progress.
Extra well being and basic well-being insights
Past Samsung’s Power scores, the Galaxy Ring was primarily targeted on monitoring the issues that different sensible rings can.
What we’d wish to see is extra significant insights connected to that information. We’d wish to see suggestions and strategies to information us to make higher selections about what we do in the course of the day and earlier than going to mattress.
AI may play its half right here, however provided that it’s utilized in a extremely efficient and personalised means.
That’s all for the Galaxy Ring 2 thus far however we’ll replace this text when there are new rumours or official information.