Oura Ring 4 Arrives with Better Battery Life & Accuracy; Still Needs a Subscription
Oct. 4, 2024When it comes to smart rings, Oura is easily one of the first brands that comes to mind. This week, the brand launched theOura Ring 4, taking the fight straight to the Samsung Galaxy Ring. From improved tracking and accuracy with a new Smart Sensing technology to a redesigned companion app, a bunch of things have changed with the fourth iteration. Let’s take a look at the details!
Oura Ring 4 Specifications and Features
While theOura Ring 4doesn’t look all that different, the quality of materials used has changed, big time. You get to see afully titanium interior and exteriorin comparison to its predecessor using Titanium on the outside and epoxy on the inside.
The most important upgrade to the Oura Ring 4 is its tracking capability. The newSmart Sensing technologyautomatically adjusts to your lifestyle and analyzes how your body functions, to deliver more accurate data. Tom Hale, Oura’s CEO, says,
“The next-generation Oura Ring 4, reimagined Oura App, and the development of the Smart Sensing platform represent significant steps forward for wearables across accuracy, comfort, personalization, and design.”
TheOura App has received a generous redesignto improve the organization of your fitness data. Your data is now divided between the new Today, Vitals, and My Health tabs. Collecting all this data arerecessed interior sensors, which are smaller at just 0.3mm.
This move is to make the smart ring more comfortable to wear for users, in comparison to the last generation of rings that featured raised sensors on the inside. As for the sensors themselves, there are Red and Infrared LEDs totrack blood oxygen levelsduring sleep.
Then come the Green LEDs that shift between measuringheart rate and heart rate variabilityas well as therespiration rateduring sleep. There’s also askin temperature sensoralongside an accelerometer.
These sensors claim to accurately measure over30 health and wellness metrics. These include bedtime detection, sleep staging, cardiovascular age, cardio capacity, and more.
Moreover, while the Oura Ring 3 sported Automatic Activity Detection, we seeHeart Rate Zones for over 40 activitiesthis time around. Cycle Insights has received a brand-new Fertile Window feature that offers women who are trying to conceive more information. In addition, theDaytime Stress featureis now contextual and lets you take a look at how your activities and movements affect your stress levels throughout the day.
To fuel all that tracking, there’s a slightlyimproved batterynow, which promises to deliver up to 8 days of backup on a single charge. Also, it takes up to 120 minutes to fully charge. The charger has seen a bit of a redesign as well and is squircle now. Oura also claims that it provides more stability with a gripper mat at the bottom.
Pricing hasn’t changed, and the Oura Ring 4 starts at$349. However, unlike the Oura Ring 3, you don’t get to see a cheaper Heritage variant, which started at $299. Moreover, Oura Membership is here to stay, and you will still need to pay$5.99 per month or $69.99 a yearto actually make use of the smart ring.
There are the Silver, Black, Brushed Silver, Stealth, Gold, and Rose Gold color options to choose from. The Oura Ring 4 alsocomes in more sizes, letting you choose between a range of 4 to 12. This certainly opens doors for women to choose comfortably smaller sizes.
With the Galaxy Ring priced at $399, the newly launched Oura Ring 4 definitely locks horns with it. What do you think about Oura’s latest smart ring? Drop your thoughts in the comments below!
Sagnik is a tech aficionado who can never say “no” to dipping his toes into unknown waters of tech or reviewing the latest gadgets. He is also a hardcore gamer, having played everything from Snake Xenzia to Dead Space Remake.
