Most smart rings these days claim to offer marathon battery lives, but end up falling short of their promise. Take the Oura Ring 4, for example, which claims to have an eight-day battery life, but often only lasts me around four days tops. I still love and willingly recharge that ring, but part of the appeal of smart rings, compared to smartwatches, is their longer battery life.
If you want a smart ring with a truly competitive battery life, I’ve got one for you. I’ve been testing the RingConn Gen 2
Most smart rings offer up daily scores for two to three important health metrics: sleep, activity, and readiness. Readiness is calculated based on yesterday’s activity, how you slept, and other biometric data, like how late your heart rate dropped as you slept.
The RingConn Gen 2 measures your vitals, sleep, activity, and stress, but doesn’t measure readiness. Instead of readiness, it provides a Wellness Balance feature. It takes all of the aforementioned data and displays it in a flower-like graph, with longer petals for the biometrics that are meeting or excelling the recommended benchmarks and shorter petals for those that aren’t. When all your petals are the same length it indicates that your wellness is at equilibrium. I liked that I could see all the important data displayed in such a digestible and visual manner, right as I opened the app.