07/15/2024
Galaxy Ring and Galaxy Watch don’t have a subscription now, but Samsung exec says that could change
Samsung is hoping to win fitness tracker adopters over with a key advantage: no subscription fees. At a time when many consumer companies in the health space charge users monthly for their services, the new Galaxy Ring, Galaxy Watch 7, and Galaxy Watch Ultra arrive without software paywalls.
Samsung Health, Samsung's unified health and wellness app, has been free for customers since it launched in 2012. Standard on all Samsung smartwatches (and now, Samsung smart rings) Samsung Health is how users can monitor and review insights on their wellness. It's packed with great features like sleep analysis, exercise tracking, nutrition plans, period predictions, and more — primarily driven by data collected by Samsung's wearables.
This year's wearable collection ups the ante with sophisticated health tools such as sleep apnea detection and AGEs Index readings, as well as personalized insights powered by Galaxy AI and Samsung's latest-gen BioActive sensor. When I sat down with Dr. Hon Pak, Samsung VP & Head of its Digital Health Team, to learn more about these latest Samsung Health additions , I couldn't help but ask, when the heck will Samsung start charging for all of this?
