I got the ring because I've the smart watches weren't for me. And this just worked perfectly especially since I didn't want to spend 200+ for it. I recommend wear gloves, hand wraps. I've been able to taking boxing and classes and HIIT classes without a problem. I switch between wearing it on my index and middle finger.
I'm not really into watches and don't do much lifting, I'm really liking the health tracking ring form factor and the apps readiness levels and sleep scores are pretty helpful. I wore a, fungible wedding ring anyway, and just swapped it for this oura ring, so physically it's pretty indistinguishable from what I was wearing anyway. That said if it was not basically free I would not buy an oura ring to then pay the subscription fee; reinforced even more after getting to try it. But I think I might pay for a year or two of subscription and just consider that a discounted fitness ring.
It sounds like most of your complaints are actually with the form factor of the ring itself. But one can trade a gen 3 oura ring to Samsung for $100 off a Galaxy ring with no subscription if the issues were with the app experience/subscription.
https://www.samsung.com/us/rings/galaxy-ring/buy/galaxy-ring-titanium-silver-sm-q50xnzsaxar/
The oura sub is overrun with people complaining the 4 only lasts 1-3 days. People who have had replacement rings and it is still bad. I'm sure it's just a select few who have the defective product but it's definitely an alarming amount of posts. Battery life has been surprisingly good for the 3 for me.
I figured I'd try out the oura since it was free then if I liked it I could upgrade to the 4 in January if I liked it.
Wearing mine for the past two weeks as well. I realize that I have no need for this type of data, it doesn’t really change my life much.
Not going to be renewing my subscription
$6. Obviously it’s not breaking any banks but like you said the idea of paying a forever fee on top of the ring for this in addition to all the other subscription services is pretty meh.
I got also mine to just try for the month while already having an Apple Watch and I’m like eh it’s kinda nice but I barely pay attention to the fancy details in the app so it’s clearly not a big need for me to continue the sub. Also it doesn’t always seem to even be able to expand and intuitively show me the details I want for basic sleep and workout HR stuff that I seem to be able to do on apple health with my other stuff so…easy decision.
Yeah I’m constantly moving it around on my hand to different fingers to try to avoid weird pressure during different tasks. Glad I’m not out $300+ on it, just $18 to try it out, haha.
For real, mine is so scratched up after less than a month of use from just putting up Halloween decorations and things. If I actually cared about the look I would be pretty bothered by it, haha.
I have been comparing step counts of Oura 4 to Pixel Watch 3 for two months now and there’s ever only a maximum 300 step difference. I was shocked how close the Oura was as steps is really all I wanted and my Oura 3 sucked and was wildly off (slightly too big, too, as I start to suspect…)
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