Toward the end of Samsung’s Unpacked event today, the company started talking about its health-focused software, Samsung Health. After unveiling the Galaxy Watch 6’s sleep tracking features and software tools like medication management and an upcoming update to its health app, Samsung gave us a sneak peek at its upcoming piece of health-focused hardware, the Galaxy Ring. It looks like a… ring, with lots of sensors clearly visible inside the ring.
And that’s literally all we know. There is no word on when it will come out, what it will do, or how much it will cost. Your guess is as good as mine as to whether it’s actually released or not, but I’m feeling it right now in the very Galaxy Home area. At least the new Galaxy S24 and S24 Ultra are real – you can read our hands-on stories here and here.
Of course, Samsung isn’t the first to attempt a health-based ring, though it would be the biggest company to do so to date. Oura has been releasing the third generation Ring for some time now back in 2022. It can track your sleep, measure your heart rate during exercise, and track your daily activity to make sure you’re hitting certain goals. Most wearables already do this sort of thing, though certainly not in such a small form factor. Presumably, the Samsung Galaxy Ring will cover the same territory and work alongside new metrics coming to Samsung Health, like the company’s newly announced vitality score.
