Joining forces with Google! Samsung smart ring unveiled, lands AI health ecosystem

Thousands of calls, Samsung smart ring finally made its official debut under the eyes of many people's expectations. Samsung in the recent summer new conference officially released a smart watch, TWS headphones, smartphones new products, but also includes the debut of the smart ring products Galaxy Ring, priced at $ 399 (about 2900 yuan).

Being a smart wearable device, this smart ring is equipped with a variety of health-monitoring features, just like other brands of smart rings today. Samsung has built it with an accelerometer sensor, Samsung BioActive biosensor, and a skin temperature sensor for monitoring body movement, heart rate, and regular skin temperature measurements while sleeping, respectively.

Thanks to the health sensors, the Galaxy Ring is capable of 24/7 health monitoring, and the sleep monitoring mode is capable of monitoring the user's heart rate, sleep quality and other data during the night.

The ring is 7 millimeters wide, 2 millimeters thick and weighs 2.3 grams. With multiple sensors integrated into such a small smart ring and a powerful battery, Samsung describes it as “a health innovation that's as big as it is small”. In terms of battery life, the Galaxy Ring can last up to 7 days.

In the construction of the health ecosystem, Samsung Smart Ring will be a key part of Samsung's AI health ecosystem. Samsung smartphone's AI function has AI writing, AI keying and other regular functions.Galaxy Ring also has the ability of Galaxy AI. Samsung said that you can currently use the Samsung AI function for free. The smart ring can analyze data through AI to provide personalized health and sleep advice.

In terms of interaction capabilities, Galaxy Ring brings a new experience of cross-terminal interaction. According to the introduction, after wearing the Galaxy Ring, you can control your Samsung smartphone through gestures. For example, you can use gesture operation to turn off the alarm clock or press the camera shutter.

You can look forward to more interaction progress of the Samsung smart ring on MR devices, perhaps Samsung will not let the Galaxy Ring become a simple single product, and in the future it will be given more spatial perception, interaction and other capabilities.

Samsung's end-side personal AI is arguably the highlight of the launch. Cell phone brands have been known to link their individual products with their smartphones to create an ecological closed loop. Today, with the advent of AI technology, AI features have become the key to creating an ecology. Apple and Samsung are both empowering their products with AI technology, and creating an AI ecology has become one of the directions recognized by most smartphone brands.

Samsung said that it will update this release of new Galaxy AI features to more Samsung Galaxy devices this year. In the future, multimodal and contextual AI will become an interconnected ecosystem that meets everyday needs by performing complex personalized tasks.The AI algorithms built into Galaxy devices will develop a personal knowledge graph for each user, each of which will integrate multiple data points to create more personalized services.

As we all know, Apple chose OpenAI cooperation in the field of AI, and Samsung chose to join hands with Google in the matter of AI, Google Gemini intelligent assistant will be deeply integrated into Samsung's new breed, intending to make the AI function into a system-level function. Now, Samsung deepens its layout in the wearable field through the release of Galaxy Ring, and empowers AI functions into more wearable devices.

From a functional point of view, some of the health monitoring functions of smartwatches are used to realize the smart ring. Compared to smart watches, wearing it while sleeping will bring a sense of foreign body, and the smaller size of the smart ring can solve this problem to a certain extent, and perhaps it can become a consumer electronic product that can make up for the lack of nighttime monitoring scenarios.