Samsung says the Galaxy Ring offers up to nine days of battery life
More details emerge
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TheSamsung Galaxy Ringis in something of a launch limbo at the moment, because itofficially exists, we’ve had some briefhands-on timewith it, and yet there’s still a lot we don’t know about the device – like how long it’s going to last between battery charges.
Speaking toFNNews(via9to5Google),Samsung’s Hon Pak said that battery life is somewhere between five and nine days, depending on how you use it – though it’s worth bearing in mind that the wearable isn’t quite in its finished form yet.
That sounds comparable to the week or so you get with theOura smart ring, one of Samsung’s main competitors in this product category. You won’t have to charge it every night, which is handy for those sleep tracking capabilities.
Samsung is slowly telling us more and more about its Galaxy Ring. A couple of days ago, for example, we heard that the company is working to make the device compatible with a broad range of Android phones – but itwon’t work with the iPhonefrom the off.
Sleep and AI
The ring that we got tospend some time withatMWC 2024earlier this week was a non-functioning prototype, which gives you an idea of where Samsung is up to in terms of the development. We’ve got a good idea of what it looks like, at least.
What Samsung has told us is quite a bit about what the Galaxy Ring is designed to do: to track your sleep in a more intelligent and less obtrusive way than a smartwatch, for example, and to crunch stats to assess physical and mental readiness.
A lot of the legwork will be done by AI, and though the Galaxy Ring obviously doesn’t have a display of its own, everything gets synced to the Samsung Health app on your phone (assuming you have an Android phone, of course).
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Based oneverything we’ve heard so far, our best guess is that the Galaxy Ring will launch in fullsometime in Julyat an Unpacked event – alongside theSamsung Galaxy Z Fold 6, theSamsung Galaxy Z Flip 6, and theSamsung Galaxy Watch 7.
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Dave is a freelance tech journalist who has been writing about gadgets, apps and the web for more than two decades. Based out of Stockport, England, on TechRadar you’ll find him covering news, features and reviews, particularly for phones, tablets and wearables. Working to ensure our breaking news coverage is the best in the business over weekends, David also has bylines at Gizmodo, T3, PopSci and a few other places besides, as well as being many years editing the likes of PC Explorer and The Hardware Handbook.
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