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Intro
If you’ve been considering getting a smart ring or wondering if a smart ring can replace your smartwatch, the Ringcon Gen 2 Air is worth checking out. It boasts up to 10 days of battery life. It has various sensors for monitoring sleep, steps, oxygen levels, heart rate, temperature, and more. And it’s all housed in a comfortable toear and lightweight ring with an IP68 rating that looks premium thanks to the stainless steel build. There’s also zero subscription fees. But how accurate is the monitoring data? And can you really get up to 10 days of battery life? Well, I’ve been wearing this for over a month. So, let me share my thoughts with you. And a big thanks to Ringcon for sending
Package Contents
this out for review. In the box, we have the Ringcon Gen 2 Air, a charging base or a stand, USB type-C to type-C cable, an actual printed manual, and not a QR code, and a quick start guide. So, I
Design
have the size 9 of the Ringcon Gen 2 Air, and this is coming in at 3.3 g. So, of course, if you get a larger size or a smaller size, the weight will vary. Now you can see we have kind of a marking here and this marking just lets you know that whenever you put this onto your finger for example the marking has to say at the bottom here kind of facing up on your finger. Now I have this galaxy um silver colored and this has a very mirror-l like finish extremely reflective and it also comes in a dune gold version as well. The exterior or frame is a stainless steel finish. And then on the inside, we have a medical grade epoxy resin and that helps keep all of the sensors protected.
Now, this also has an IP68 rating, meaning you could wear this like in the rain, in the shower, which is something I will be doing as well. The ring has a 12 MIA battery on it. And note that it has nodules on the right and left sides. So, you’ll definitely want to order the free ring sizing guide to make sure you pick the right ring for your finger. Now, if you want to protect that kind of mirror-l like finish, they also sell ring protectors which you can buy separately. This is what the charging base looks like. So, you can see it’s very compact. Fits in the palm of my hands nicely. We have metal charging contacts on one side and a USB type-C port on the other to power it up. And then we have a rubber foot at the very bottom to keep this nice and planted.
So, the ring can only go in one way just like so. And it magnetically attaches into those metal charging contacts. So, if I hold it upside down, you can see it actually doesn’t fall out of place. Charging the ring is really easy. You’ll just plug in the USB type-C cable at the back. You can see the logo light up there, letting you know it’s ready to charge. Pop the ring on, and you’ll see
App Setup
it’ll just glow in and out nice and softly, letting you know it’s actively
Specs
being charged. Here’s a quick look at the specs. Feel free to pause and review or jump ahead to the next section. I’ll go ahead and pair the Ringcon app. In
App Settings
the RingCon app, once you open it up, you could cycle through the various days of data. In the top right corner, you can use the ring airplane mode to extend battery life or you could use the find my ring feature. Now, you can see a kind of snapshot on this specific day. So, it’s showing my sleep score, relax status, vital signs, and activity. And you can scroll down and any of these areas with the arrow, you could just tap into it and get more data. So, you can see um total time asleep and it’s going to show you, you know, time in bed, different sleep stages like REM sleep, light sleep, deep sleep.
You can also toggle the sleep HR slider here and you could take a look at your heart rate, HRV, oxygen level while you were sleeping, skin temperature, respiratory rate, and if you were to take a nap, you can log that manually as well. And from here, you can actually go into any of the other sections. So on this day, you could see the total amount of steps, calories, total duration, and you can set the step goal in another part of the app as well. You could take a look at standing time, uh, activity intensity, how much of that was vigorous, moderate, low, etc. Under stress, we could take a look at the stress index. It’s showing it as normal or 45. And again, any of these screens, you could just scroll all the way down. So, this is at last night.
You could see the last seven night of average. And just a summary of how you’re doing week to week. Under vital signs, you can see it’s actually showing that I had an outlier. So if I tap into that, it’s showing that between this time my blood oxygen level was a little bit low. But if you scroll down again, you could take a look at heart rate, you know, 5 minute or 30 minute data. You can see the oxygen saturation level again, HRV, skin temperature, and respiratory rate. Under exercise. So there’s a bunch of options in here. So if you tapped on it, you know, you could just hit go to start it. But if you needed more, you could tap on add a workout record. Tap on walking. And you could see these are all of the other available exercises to choose from.
And if I tapped on jump rope, for example, I could hit confirm. I could set the intensity. And if you’re not sure why or how you would set that, it kind of breaks it down for you. So you can see between 2 to three, you can do this workout for a long time or, you know, 8 to 9, it’s very hard, you know, almost impossible, very difficult to do. So once you dial that in, you can also set the start and end time. And then I’ll just hit, you know, add record for the default. and you know you can manually add it. So this is how you would kind of add exercises since you don’t have a screen on the ring. You can tap the top left corner and this has a beta feature. It’s called RingCon Partner and it’s kind of an AI feature.
You could go ahead, you know, type a question to ask it or use these preset selections. Under the plan tab, you can go ahead and add specific plans to, you know, improve your sleep, improve your exercise levels. Under the health tab, it gives a lifestyle score. You could tap into that to see kind of how you’re trending. And if you scroll down, you can see which specific areas you can improve. So I can improve on pre-sleep preparation. And then if we tap in the top right corner here, we can take a look at trends. So if I wanted to look at my historical data for sleep, I could tap into that. It’s showing me, you know, it’s based on this week of data. And you can see it’s really a ton of different data that it gives you to keep track of.
And you could cycle through that by monthly breakdown and yearly breakdown as well. You can also tap to look at weekly and yearly reports as well. Under the MI tab, you could tap into your profile to set your age, weight, etc. But this badges feature is really cool. So, you get badges for different things. So, like for wearing it for 30 days, um optimal sleep, optimal activity, stress, and this is a really neat feature. I just wish they had kind of like a point system or a leaderboard so you can see how well you stack up against other users. You can also see the Ring’s battery life and the estimated amount of remaining days you could share this data. And if we tap under RingCon Lab app, this is where I enable that partner or AI feature. So you can enable or disable that.
Under app settings, you could set it light mode, dark mode from uh imperial to metric. And then you can also set automatic nap detection, workout detection, and we can also jump into period forecaster. You could jump into notification settings to get notification reminders for low battery wearing reminders, sedentary reminders, high heart rate reminder. You can also set your goals. So, step goals, activity goals, sleep goals, and you can also turn on the persistent connection mode to improve the connection stability. In
Monitoring
terms of monitoring accuracy, I put the Gen 2 Air up against the Ultra Human Ring Air and my Wii Scan Watch. And here are the results. So, you can see that the tracking was fairly consistent among all three devices when it came to sleep tracking, temperature, oxygen level, and BPM. When it came to step recording, that’s where the biggest issue was. So, the devices were reporting up to a 43% difference in how they tracked steps. Now, I’m going to use the scan watch as being the most accurate because this is on my wrist. When you’re walking, your wrist is swinging. So, this is going to more accurately, you know, track a step versus with the rings, you know, moving your fingers around that could register as a step.
So, with that in mind, if I compare the Ultra Human Ringer to my Scan Watch, this was actually over reporting the steps by double or even more than double. The Ringcon Gen 2 error was over reporting the steps from 20 to 46%. So much better than the Ultrauman Ring error. But you can’t use either of these rings for reliable step tracking. So what I’d recommend is if you have a smartwatch, take a look at the steps that’s reporting and then compensate based on that. So with the Ultra Ring Air, I knew it was over reporting by double or even more. So I would just take the amount of steps it said and divide it by two. And with the Ringcon Gen 2 Air, you would just be able to divide this by less than two because it’s still more accurate than the Ultra Human Ring Air.
So, the Ringcon Gen 2 Air has pretty reliable tracking and basically every metric except for steps. But that’s the same issue I found with other brands of smart
Health Improvement?
rings. Will wearing the Gen 2 Air actually improve your health. And that’s really going to come down to how often you’re opening up the app, taking a look at all that data and metrics, and deciding, hey, compared to what my previous day was, do I want to make my next day better? And this is one area where I feel like the app is a little bit lacking because it will send you notifications for battery uh low battery alerts, you know, if you’ve been sedentary, if your heart rate is high, if you’re not wearing the ring for a long period of time.
But I would like it to actually nag me a little bit more, like closer to bedtime, saying, “Hey, now’s a good time to consider winding down because you didn’t get enough sleep last night or now is a good time to try to incorporate more steps into your day because you didn’t get a lot of step activity.” And that’s a one thing that I just wish the app would do a little bit more than the notification alerts it’s
Durability
sending currently. The durability of the Gen 2 Air has been fantastic so far. So, I was worried about the very shiny finish on the exterior. But after a month of wear, basically in every type of situation, it’s really hard to find any type of nicks or scratches on here. And when I compare that to my Ultra Human Ring Air, which I wore for about 2 months now, there’s notable scratches and nicks all the way around. Even with the matte type of finish. So, whatever coating they have on here, they’ve done
Comfort
a fantastic job with it. The Gen 2 Air is extremely comfortable to wear 24/7. And you could see that it has this kind of rounded squared off design. And when you compare that to, you know, more traditional smart rings, it has this fully round design. But because of the kind of squared off design, it actually fits perfectly with my fingers. And it’s much less obtrusive. So, when I’m using my phone, I find it’s, you know, less likely to just hit the back of my phone versus when I was wearing a more rounded ring. And at roughly 3.3 grams for the size 9 that I have, you’ll barely notice it’s there at all. Comfort is zero
Battery
issue. The battery life is rated for up to 10 days, which is pretty impressive given the small size of the ring. Now, I ran multiple battery tests both with the persistent connection mode enabled and with it off. And on average, I was getting between 7 and 1/2 to 8 days of battery life, which is amazing because you’re easily going to get a week of wear out of this. And that’s far better than most smart watches which have a screen on them. You’re charging these, you know, like every couple of days with this at least a week before you need charging. When you need to recharge it, it magnetically snaps into the charging base and it only takes a max of 90 minutes to charge from zero. So, should
Recommended?
you get the Ringcon Gen 2 Air Smart Ring? Well, as long as you’re comfortable interacting with the app versus the screen on your smartwatch, this is a much better option in a lot of ways. It’s sleek, it’s minimal, it’s unobtrusive, and it’s likely you’re going to wear this way more than you would a smartwatch. You can even wear this in the shower. I wear it when I shower. There’s zero issues at all. The only downside is the step tracking won’t be as accurate, but you’re getting way better battery life than you would on any smartwatch in between 7 and 1/2 to 8 days. Whereas with a smartwatch, you’re probably charging this every couple of days. The durability on the Gen 2 era has also been standout, and I’ve actually dropped this a couple of times. Zero damage at all.
And I know if I dropped my smartwatch, that would probably be the end of it. There’s also zero subscription fees to get full functionality out of the Ringcon Gen 2 Air. So, if you’re interested in picking up your very own or learning more, I’m going to leave some links down below. If you found this video helpful, would you mind liking and subscribing? It truly does help me out quite a bit. You may also find this video interesting. And while you’re at it, maybe check out some of my other tech reviews outside of Smart Rings. I also review headphones, keyboards, monitors, mice. Really something for everyone. And I really hope you’ll join me in my next video
Buy RingConn Gen 2 Air on Amazon
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