- The RingConn Gen3 is now available for pre-order
- It has new features including ‘Vascular Health Insights, blood pressure and vibration alerts.
- Currently, vibration alerts are only linked to events and health reminders, rather than phone notifications.
The RingConn Gen 3 is now available for pre-order and features a variety of updates and improvements over the RingConn Gen 2. Our reviewer called the slimmer RingConn Gen 2 Air the “perfect smart ring for beginners” and it made our list of the best smart rings. RingConn is clearly already doing something right.
While the new model is a little thicker, it has a ton of new features, notably Vascular Health Insights and Smart Vibration Alerts. Vascular Health Insights is RingConn’s name for analyzing its long-term data, and the feature is said to “take the ring beyond simple recording and more toward interpreting long-term patterns,” according to RingConn’s website. It is “designed to help users understand broader cardiovascular trends over time.”
RingConn emphasizes that it is turning heart health signals into actionable information, but it’s unclear at the moment how this differs from similar features from Oura and Samsung Health.
Blood pressure monitoring is also in the cards, although RingConn is careful not to frame the ring as a replacement for a blood pressure cuff, as is the case with the hypertension feature of the best Apple Watches. Instead, it is intended as a notice or estimate only.
Haptic feedback
RingConn’s smart vibration alerts are interesting – it’s a feature not currently used by the best smart rings like the Oura Ring 4 and the Samsung Galaxy Ring. Instead, it represents smart rings that adopt an element of interactivity rather than remaining silent, focused wearable devices for data collection.
Instead of alerting you to phone notifications, however, the RingConn Gen 3’s smart vibration alerts are for health events only, and the press release states that “Gen 3 isn’t trying to become a noisy mini smartwatch.”
‘The vibration function prioritizes health, not the message. That keeps the ring aligned with what people really want from this category: useful guidance without constant distractions.’ Presumably, those health events include features similar to those of the best smartwatches, alerting the user to unusually high or low heart rates. The vibration function can be activated or deactivated.
A solid foundation
RingConn Gen 3 builds on the strong foundation of Gen 2, with sleep apnea detection, menstrual cycle tracking, and improved battery life (up to 11 days with vibration on or 14 with vibration off).
It includes all the usual measurements of wellness metrics, such as stress, heart rate variability, blood oxygen, sleep tracking, steps, calories, and more. Stay tuned for our full review and you can pre-order the RingConn Gen 3 here for $386 (around £285 / AU$535).
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