Two years later, where is the Samsung Galaxy Ring?

It’s been two years since Samsung introduced the Galaxy Ringits first and highly anticipated smart ring, the one that We were crowding together to photograph at a Mobile World Congress and that promised to create a whole new category of health wearables. Two years later, I came to London to Samsung Unpacked and, in addition to the new foldables, they have also announced new watches, the Galaxy Watch9 and the Galaxy Watch Ultra2, but There is no trace of the Galaxy Ring.

In the demo area there were many devices, most of them newly announced, but there were also others already known such as the Galaxy Buds 4 Pro or the original Galaxy Watch Ultra, but the Galaxy Ring was not exposed. There was a table decorated with motifs related to sports and health, so I thought maybe they had it there, but it wasn’t there either. I asked several Samsung officials and they told me that they had not brought it, but that the ring was still selling as always.

Before continuing, we remind you that the members of Xataka Xtra can access discounts, benefits and exclusive opportunities in the Samsung online storein addition to exclusive raffles, a private Discord server and a growing catalog of discounts and advantages on digital services. You can join the community for only 30 euros per year.

No renewal in sight

Samsung renews its smart watches every year, but this has not been the case with the ring. It doesn’t have to be a bad thing, perhaps it is simply a category of device with fewer “showy” functionalities and does not lend itself as much to following an annual renewal cycle.

However, they are two years without no comment on a possible renewal and the most striking thing: if we go to the Samsung press room, we see that the last article published about the Galaxy Ring It dates back to January 2025 and is about a Samsung Health update. What was once Samsung’s most anticipated product is today relegated to the background.

The smart rings market

The answer to the absence of the Galaxy Ring may lie in the smart ring market itself. According to Fortune Business Insightsthe global market was valued at $416.9 million in 2025 and is expected to reach $518.9 million this year. It sounds good on paper, but if we put it in perspective we talk about a category that remains tiny within wearables.

The IDC data they make it even clearer. The firm predicts that in 2026 407.6 million wearables will be shipped, of which 159.7 million will be smart watches, 40.2 million bracelets, 13.6 million smart glasses and only 4.9 million will be rings like the Galaxy Ring. The difference in scale is enormous and even smart glasses triple the number of rings. The category is growing, but from such a small base that this growth is barely noticeable in the absolute figures of the sector.

One of the reasons that works against this category is the price. The Galaxy Ring costs 449 euros, more expensive than some of its watches, but having much fewer features. It is clear that miniaturization is paid for, but for the consumer it continues to offer more of a watch or bracelet than a ring.

A very small party to which Samsung arrived late

On that tiny piece of land, Samsung has to compete with a brand that was already very established in the sector. We are talking about Oura, which according to Omdia data At the beginning of 2025 it had 74% of the market, followed by Ultrahuman and Samsung with 9% each.

The smart ring market is a small niche and already conquered by a brand that had years of advantage specializing only in this. Oura launched its first ring in 2018 and has since released four more versions. Of course, it has not followed a cycle of annual renewals, but rather the update schedule is more irregular. In 2018 two models, three years later they launched the Oura Ring Gen3in 2024 came the Oura Ring 4 and this year, in May, they presented the Oura Ring 5.

Does it make sense to renew?

As we said, a ring has fewer flashy features and does not lend itself to introducing too many changes, after all it is a ring. Samsung could make it thinner and more discreet without sacrificing battery if it opted for silicon-carbon, a technology that allows creating denser batteries in less space, but beyond that there is not much room for major improvements.

Samsung is not the only brand that has left smart rings a bit aside. Amazfit also introduced the Helium Ring in 2024 and has not updated it again. For its part, Honor also announced that it would launch a ring But today we continue to wait for it.

Samsung is not alone in this, but it is true that it is a giant company, with a lot of muscle, that We are used to setting the pace for entire categorieslike folding ones or smartwatches, which is why the absence of the Galaxy Ring is striking. Perhaps the problem is that we assume that the logic of “renew every year and make noise” applies to any product in your catalog, but it really doesn’t make sense in smart rings. Time will tell if they continue betting on this category or if they end up diluting their wearable offering.

Images | Xataka

In Xataka | Best smart rings 2026. Which one to buy based on use and six recommended models