Oura's New Premium Smart Ring Comes With A Charging Case - And A New Finish

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ZDNET's cardinal takeaways

• Oura is launching 4 colorful $500 smart rings.
• The Oura Ring 4 Ceramic lineup is eye-catching and fashionable.
• The package is nary different than nan original Oura Ring 4. 

Smart rings are much discreet wellness trackers than a smartwatch, and it takes a knowing oculus to recognize personification is wearing one. Still, arsenic Oura Rings go much prevalent (and Oura Ring income skyrocket), it's getting easier and much communal to spot that chunky metallic ringing astir a person's finger. 

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Oura's latest merchandise offers an replacement to nan company's flashy metallic smart rings. The Oura Ring 4 Ceramic lineup, nan smart ringing institution announced connected Wednesday, leans much toward nan instrumentality arsenic a connection piece. Eye-popping colors make nan caller wearable look for illustration an accessory first and a wellness locator second. 

The Oura Ring Ceramic is made of zirconia ceramic, a worldly Oura says is designed for radiance and durability. It comes successful 4 rich | colors: Cloud (white), Tide (light blue), Petal (light pink), and Midnight (navy). Compared to nan original Oura Ring 4 lineup, Oura says nan ceramic coating connected these rings keeps nan colour vibrant and little prone to fading aliases discoloration complete time. 

I sewage immoderate hands-on clip pinch nan caller smart ringing earlier this month, and what instantly drew maine successful was really soft nan ceramic decorativeness felt astir my fingers. The Ceramic ringing is thicker than nan Oura Ring 4, which mightiness complicate mundane wear. That seems intentional though, since Oura is trading nan Ceramic Ring arsenic a manner piece, 1 that wearers tin interchange, depending connected their outfit. 

Oura says owed to nan zirconia ceramic's difficult finish, nan ringing tends to return connected scuffs from softer metals. The ringing is prone to grey scuffs, which tin beryllium removed pinch nan ceramic polishing pad Oura provides pinch each Ceramic ring. 

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Along pinch nan Ceramic, Oura announced multi-ring support, meaning users tin now move betwixt smart rings connected 1 relationship to continuously grounds activity and slumber data. Previously, nan app could only grounds and cod information from 1 smart ring. This announcement besides suggests that nan Ceramic ringing is meant to beryllium a secondary smart ringing successful a user's lineup. 

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The hardware mightiness look different, but nether nan hood, nan Oura Ring 4 and nan Ring 4 Ceramic are precisely nan same, pinch nan aforesaid artillery life, wellness and slumber search functionalities, and sizing. The value of Ring 4 Ceramic starts astatine $499, and, arsenic always, nan yearly subscription that unlocks afloat entree to wellness information is an further $70 a year. 

Oura besides announced a caller charging lawsuit that packs 5 afloat charges into an on-the-go holder. The charger retails for $99 and is disposable to bid later this year.