The Samsung Galaxy Ring was Samsung’s debut sensible ring and a powerful first-generation effort that gave sensible ring followers a powerful various to the much-loved Oura Ring.
It provided a likeable design and transportable charger, good battery life and strong general monitoring with out the necessity for a paid subscription to get one of the best out of it. Total, it was our favorite sensible ring of 2024.
We’re absolutely anticipating the Galaxy Ring’s successor, the Samsung Galaxy Ring 2, to be within the offing and may construct on the great work Samsung’s already executed with its first sensible ring.
Right here’s what we all know concerning the subsequent Samsung Galaxy Ring to this point.
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 occurred on 10 July 2024.
It appears Samsung might be planning an analogous 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 collection of telephones.
This might point out that Samsung will undertake an analogous reveal and launch strategy to its first ring and make us wait till the Summer time to make its second-generation ring available for purchase.
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 discuss Galaxy Ring 2 formally it’s a little bit of a guessing recreation on the Galaxy Ring 2 pricing.
We predict Samsung will seemingly persist with a subscription-free mannequin, which suggests you’ll have to pay only for the ring. The primary Galaxy Ring was priced at £399/$399.99 making it one of the costly sensible rings obtainable.
It will be stunning if Samsung bumped the worth of the Ring 2, except it determined to go down the posh route like Oura, when it collaborated with Guuci and launched a higher-grade model of its Ring 3. That collaboration pushed the worth in the direction of the £1,000/$1,000 mark.
There’s additionally the freshly introduced UItrahuman Uncommon which begins at £1,500 nevertheless it feels way more seemingly for Samsung to attraction to the lots.
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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 following Galaxy Ring 2, however we are able to analyse the competitors to get a way of what may be coming for Samsung’s second-generation sensible ring to verify it’s nonetheless competing with the competitors.
Extra sizes
Like all sensible rings, getting a great match is integral to gathering probably the most correct knowledge out of your finger.
It had been instructed 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 whole, only one much less measurement choice 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 really not the sensible ring with one of the best 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 might look to spice up battery additional and match that greatest performer to offer you another excuse to select 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 fee 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 could look to match.
Samsung has included an ECG sensor on its Galaxy Watches for just a few generations now and should look so as to add it to its ring as effectively, which might improve its well being monitoring attraction.
Sleep apnea detection
One of the compelling causes to select a sensible ring over a smartwatch is that it’s way more comfy and discreet to take to mattress and monitor your sleep. The sleep monitoring efficiency on the Galaxy Ring is fairly strong as effectively.
Samsung unveiled in 2024 that the most recent Samsung Galaxy Watches had obtained De Novo authorization from america Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) for its sleep apnea function. That function can detect indicators of average to extreme obstructive sleep apnea when monitoring sleep over two nights.
This can be a function that doesn’t seem on every other sensible ring, so can be an enormous win for Samsung if they will handle so as to add it to its newest ring.
Issues we need to see from the Samsung Galaxy Ring 2
We’ve given you a way of what to anticipate from the following Galaxy Ring, but when we had a listing of issues we’d wish to see introduced when Samsung makes that massive reveal what can be on it?
Right here’s what’s high of that checklist:
Thinner, extra enticing 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 consistent with thinner sensible rings just like the RingConn Gen 2 and the most recent Oura Ring. The titanium end on sure fashions does make the Ring appear extra plastic than steel, 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 can be good too. Presently, there’s silver, black and gold, which appear to be the go-to sensible ring shades. We wouldn’t be in opposition to Samsung making an attempt one thing slightly completely different with these color choices to assist the Galaxy Ring 2 stand out for the appropriate 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 should you’re utilizing each Galaxy Watch and Galaxy Ring collectively, we’d wish to see a extra ring-centric person interface that makes the Galaxy Ring really feel much less like simply one other Samsung wearable.
Whether or not it’s displaying knowledge in a different way on display or just making the expertise of utilizing it really feel distinctive, this could make delving into the app a extra inviting and fascinating factor to do when needing to test your sleep stats or every day exercise monitoring progress.
Extra well being and common 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 knowledge. We’d wish to see suggestions and ideas to information us to make higher choices about what we do throughout the day and earlier than going to mattress.
AI might play its half right here, however provided that it’s utilized in a very efficient and personalised method.
That’s all for the Galaxy Ring 2 to this point however we’ll replace this text when there are new rumours or official information.
