Gadget launches are becoming more exciting than ever, with the Samsung Galaxy Ring being the latest example. The smart ring was teased last month, and now Samsung says we’ll get a full reveal at MWC 2024 this week – although it won’t go on sale for a while.
MWC (or Mobile World Congress) is the largest mobile technology trade show of the year, and in its press release ahead of the event, Samsung says the Galaxy Ring “is being unveiled as a new health form factor that simplifies everyday wellness.”
We’ll also hear about “upcoming intelligent health features” related to the Samsung Health app, including more detailed insights into the data it collects – sleep patterns, activity times, heart rate, and so on.
The overall goal of the smart ring is to support “smarter, healthier living through a more connected digital wellness platform,” Samsung says, and the current Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 and Samsung Galaxy S24 devices will also be featured. The event officially runs from Monday, February 26 to Thursday, February 29.
So what will we find out?
It’s not clear exactly what Samsung means when it says “revealed,” but we’re assuming the Galaxy Ring will be on display at MWC 2024 for people to check out. So far, we’ve only officially had a teaser video.
Based on the wording of the press statement, it’s also likely we’ll hear something about what the Samsung Galaxy Ring can do: the kind of metrics it can track and how all that data is presented in the Samsung Health app on a phone.
However, the statement also says that the smart ring won’t be publicly available until “later this year.” With that in mind, it’s not clear if we’ll find out how much the Galaxy Ring costs, or when we’ll actually be able to buy it.
As we said at the beginning, the definition of “product launch” is being stretched, but that is not unusual nowadays: for example, we had eight months between the announcement of the Apple Vision Pro and its sale, and thirteen months to wait for the same period with the Google Pixel Tablet.