If you’ve had your eye on the Samsung Galaxy Ring since its release in July 2024, good news—it’s now on Malaysian shores too, selling for RM2,099.
We recently had a chance to get our hands on it (or it on our hands?), and here are our first thoughts on the tech.
Size matters
After seeing release after release of phone and watch and earbuds time and time again, the Galaxy Ring is a breath of fresh air.
First things first, we got fitted on-site to ensure that the ring size we chose actually fits (doesn’t slip around yet isn’t too tight), and it’s recommended that you do the same at a Samsung store before you make a purchase. The Galaxy Ring is available in sizes 5 to 15.
Putting it on, I did feel pretty cool, but at the same time, it doesn’t suit my vibes. It’s rather chunky and masculine, with its colours adding to that perception—Titanium Black, Titanium Silver, and Titanium Gold.
And since the ring is so reflective, it’s quite eye-catching.
It’s recommended that you wear the ring on your index finger on a non-dominant hand, so that you minimise scratches and signs of wear.
In order to ensure that the ring’s sensors are able to detect what it needs to, there’s an orientation indicator that should be facing towards your palm.
Health stats at your fingertips
The Galaxy Ring mainly tracks your sleep, heart rate, and stress levels, then gives you a daily energy score based on your sleep performance, heart rate, and any activities you did (or didn’t do…) the previous day.
The daily energy score is simply a measure of your physical and mental readiness, and it’s Samsung’s attempt to make health tracking more personalised for you, following up your score with recommendations of better choices for your health.
The ring doesn’t offer the full suite of features that a Galaxy Watch does, but it’s meant to be complementary to it.
Other than some health tracking, the ring also has gestures enabled, but note that you’ll need to have your device updated to UI 6.1.1 in order to access them.
With a “double pinch” motion, you can take a picture when in the Camera app, as well as dismiss an alarm.
It’s quite limited at the moment, so I hope to see more features being supported by the gesture, such as dismissing a timer (useful when your hands are busy), answering a call maybe, and more.
The Galaxy Ring has an IP68 rating which means it’s dustproof and waterproof, so you can wear it while washing your hands, doing the dishes, showering, and even swimming.
The battery life on it is pretty good, claimed to be able to last up to seven days on a single charge, and you get extra battery life with the case too.
Just like with Samsung earbuds, the case can be charged separately and carried around for charging the ring on the go.
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In the time that I’ve been wearing the Galaxy Ring, I’ll say that despite its weight of 2.3 g (it goes up to 3.3 g based on size), I sometimes feel some fatigue on the finger wearing it. When that happens, I’ll either take it off for a while or switch to my other index finger.
Maybe this isn’t helped by its chunkiness either, and I hope that the tech will advance soon so that we can get even more health tracking features out of a Galaxy Ring on a much slimmer, daintier body.
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