Samsung - Galaxy Ring

Sizig kit is too small. Koreans I guess itty bitty fingers. IT doesn't do 02 reading unless sleep mode. The ring is nice but $400 get a Garmin bracelet $150. I wanted to like it. Inahebbtjer watch ultra but the ring just isn't worth $400 as it doesn't improve anything . 

It doesn't improve anything with the watch. The watch supercedes connectivity. You're wearing the rig for no reason once a watch is detected to your wrist. 

I bought one and have been using it since Monday. Samsung originally made 400,000 but demand has far exceeded expectations so they bumped that up to 1,000,000 to keep up with demand. https://9to5google.com/2024/07/24/samsung-galaxy-ring-increased-production/ So far I absolutely love it. I never could sleep comfortably in my watch, and sleep tracking is very important to me, so this was the perfect option. It combines with a galaxy watch to provide improved heart rate monitoring for daily activity, while giving you complete sleep tracking. So far I'm still at 74% battery since Monday. Thankfully this doesn't require a subscription to use, unlike the Oura smart ring. Long story short, if you want a device you can wear to provide steps, heart rate, SPO2, temp, and sleep tracking while being almost unnoticeable to wear, this is a great choice.

From my experience so far it seems to be about as accurate as the watch. But it seems they trade off duty of which one is detecting. I wouldn't say it's SUPER accurate, but accurate enough to get a respectable reading throughout the night.

So far, the ring can only do dismiss alarm and camera. The watch double tap functions seem to have more options.

This made sense on this post at launch 3 months ago. I honestly don't remember. But after three months I charge the ring every 6-7 days.

It would be worth a try. I read somewhere else on Reddit that someone tried that, boxing isn't one of the auto tracking workouts for the ring though

From everything I've read from Samsung. It doesn't matter what finger. They say the pointer finger is easiest to use the double pinch gestures. I wear it on my right ring finger and it's been great

Returned my ring as it failed in far too many ways, especially poor was the AI. It seemed to put far too much weight on when we sleep. We evolved to handle seasonal variations in daylight before clocks and watches were invented to rule over us. I had hoped the sensors would be used to measure the responses of our bodies whether we are 'night owls' or 'morning people'. It's AI designers decided we should be sleep in accordance to what they deem instead. In the last half of one night I woke up at least 20 times unable to breath for up to 30s. The watch only mentioned an average respiration rate and rated my highly concerning sleep as 'Good' - putting too much emphasis on not sleeping until 5mins past 6am, which they only rated as 'fair'. Whenever I get up at 6am or before (4am on that non-breathing night) it was recorded as 'good' or 'excellent' - regardless of whether or not I had over 3 hours of arduous hiking activity the day before. Samsung Ring AI: Absurdly Inadequate. Of the rings 3 sensors, the accelerometer showed no readings of acceleration. The skin temperature varied most depending on when the index finger was under the duvet or exposed to night air temps, which the metal rings conducts far too well. And while it is perhaps nice to see their graphic representations of pO2, BMW and HRV, so we could apply common sense intelligenge, those graphic representations cannot be read for their data or superimposed on each other, or on previous days' graphs or averages, for any simple comparisons and identification of potentially meaningful correlations with fitness. To improve my 'energy' levels and 'sleep' scores, I tried doing the opposite of everything the ring suggested for a while. That showed, by far, the fastest improvements. For 3 days I only sat and played Odessy on my PS5. The ring AI concluded that 3rd day of inactivity showed a 'good' level of activity. It did coincide with the only submergence (during the MANY hours I have wasted on that game) of my vessel during a sea battle under storm conditions. But for Samsung AI to conclude that, any momentary  increase in 'stress' or any buzzing joystick feedback to my ringed index finger could be AI interpreted as real activity shows it has compromised AI virtue under simple virtual reality armchair gaming. But maybe the ring has been marketed (and designed?) by using Co-Pilot, which has recently said it will be increasing its monthly subscription from $11 to $16 (Australian) with less than a month's notice. I for one will be cancelling my 365 as the only time I tried it's included Co-Pilot i was almost left screaming by its artificial equivalent of 'mansplaining' only stuff that was bleadingly obvious. It proved totally unhelpful by way of moving any further forward than with our own preliminary thoughts (for best sustainable energy solo ocean sailboat)

Although one possible advantahe is no subscription, as you said, Samsung ring comes with a warning that subscriptions for many of its AI based functions may apply from end of 2025. They did not specify which functions are susceptibly AI based

I too kept mine on for every activity, even enduring the pain it caused when weight lifting, but never use sunscreen so can't testify to that being a good idea. Over 3wks of use, before returning it, I only took it odd twice to recharge and twice to wash off entrapped moist dirt from gardening. But one thing I regret doing whilst wearing that ring on my index finger was rubbing my eyes and painfully bruising the surrounding tissue with ring. Wedding rings are safer as they are typically worn on a middle finger

Some of the rings night functions only work if the watch is taken off. I now put my watch on charge every night, close at hand to where I rest my head so alarm is rarely missed. I suspect they don't allow skin temperature readings during the day as they reflect air temperature variations more than doona insulated skin ones.

I've only been wearing it a few days & I can honestly say it's super uncomfortable. I have boney hands, wearing it on my my index finger - washing your hands & washing your face are extremely uncomfortable owing to the concave surface with pronounced edges. I would much prefer a pipe-cut or domed profile for comfort. Sleeping - I tend to sleep in two phases - a few hours asleep, a couple hours awake, then a few more hours asleep. I typically take my dog out when I awake in the middle of the night. When I awake a second time in the morning, initially the Wear app only has the first round of sleep captured...about 5-10 minutes later, it logs the second round of sleeping BUT it erases the waking period in the middle (I literally go outside & walk up stairs). Fitness tracking is only designed for walking & running - Pilates & paddling are my regular workouts & they're not an option in the app. So far not impressed but it was a gift so I'm not in a position to return it.