Whereas Samsung’s Galaxy Ring sparked many of the well being and health chatter firstly of Cellular World Congress, one main telephone maker needs its good ring to be the very last thing attendees bear in mind.

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Chinese language expertise firm, Honor, introduced in the present day that will probably be launching a sensible ring later this yr, presumably earlier than or in keeping with Samsung. “Internally, we’ve got this type of resolution. Now we’re engaged on that half, so sooner or later, you may have the Honor ring,” George Zhao, Honor CEO, confirmed to CNBC.

Whereas Zhao did not disclose any specs or trace on the options of the ring within the interview, it could possibly be protected to imagine that the Honor Ring will area comparable functionalities because the Samsung Galaxy Ring, together with common well being and health monitoring — coronary heart price, sleep, stress ranges, and so forth.

The Honor Ring can be anticipated to synergize with the model’s current portfolio of merchandise, which incorporates smartphones, smartwatches, wi-fi earbuds, and laptops. Zhao additionally talked about to CNBC that “This {hardware} functionality will work along with AI-enabled apps (and) may help you make the skilled coaching course tailor-made for you as a result of they studied your habits and well being knowledge to present you skilled solutions.”

The place the ring might not be as aggressive because the Samsung Galaxy is girls’s well being monitoring; the latter has partnered with Pure Cycles to supply FDA-cleared pores and skin temperature and fertility monitoring, placing it in keeping with the characteristic set of market chief, Oura. After all, Honor nonetheless has the yr to drag issues collectively, so we’ll have to attend and see.

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Based on DataHorizzon Analysis, the good ring market was valued at $147.1 million in 2022 and is anticipated to have a market dimension of 1,405 million by 2032. With new entrants like Samsung and Honor, and certain extra to come back (together with Apple), the exponential development of the market isn’t with out motive. 

It is price noting that Honor has historically offered its merchandise in main European and Asian nations, not a lot in North America, so should you’re out there for a brand new good ring (and primarily based within the US,) your choices can be restricted… for now.