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Smartwatches are cool, but they can be bulky, and battery life is an issue

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that's so annoying to deal with. But luckily, Ringcon sponsored this video so

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we could look at their new Gen 2 Air smart ring, which has great battery

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life, great fitness tracking, and a low entry price point, and no monthly

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subscription. I've been wearing the Gen 2 Air for a little bit now, and I have to say it's a pretty sleek design. I've

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been wearing the Galaxy silver one for a couple weeks here, but I'm really

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excited to see this one because it's the Dune Gold and I think gold suits me a

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little bit better than the the silver and ooh that is coppery kind of rose

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goldy. Very very Dune.

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Listen, Algib. All right, but let's take a look

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what's in the box here before I get too excited about the ring here. Right off the bat, we get our

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documentation. Not exciting. And we have our charging cradle and included USBC to

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C cable. Now, let's see how long this cable is. As one of the differences

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between the Gen 2 and Gen 2 Air doesn't come with the charging case where it

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actually carries a battery with it and has 150 days worth of charge in it. This

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one you have to charge with the included cradle every single time you want to

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charge the ring, which is kind of a bummer. The case was quite nice.

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actually have it right here and it's a

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really convenient way to charge your ring on the go or just not having to

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worry about having it plugged in all the time. Though you don't have to worry about charging it very often is the

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battery life is up to 10 days which is awesome and I found was pretty accurate.

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I rarely had to charge which is almost nerve-wracking. It feels like you're

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doing something wrong and that you should be charging but it truly just

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lasts that long which is great. The cradle is also magnetic so you don't have to worry about it coming off or

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anything like that and it just snaps on which is great. Taking a closer look at

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the ring, we can see it is stainless steel, which again is a bit different

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from the Gen 2, which is aerospace grade

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titanium. This one is eco-friendly, earthly in its steel, but I think it

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looks great. And here we can see all of our sensors. We have quite a few. We

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have accurate PPG sensors, a temperature sensor, and threeaxis accelerometer,

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which is what you're going to use to, you know, swing your arm and it knows when you're going for a walk or biking

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or whatever it is you're doing. And the temperature sensor is used for things like women's health or knowing if you're

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getting sick, which is awesome to have uh on you at all times. I guess the one

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thing that's missing here compared to its Gen 2 counterpart is the sleep apnea

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monitoring. So if you're sleeping, it won't be able to tell you, hey, you're snoring and could die at any moment. But

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what are the odds of that? You're fine. One thing that's great is it does have this little etching so you know which

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way the bottom is where the sensors are. So you can keep it in the fleshy part of

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your finger to make sure you have the most accurate tracking. And it's not too

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at only 6.8 mm. You can't really feel it. Like, you know, I can push it with

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my finger, but it's not annoying at all, which is great. And its thickness is

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only 2.1 millimeters. So, again, I rarely feel it even as someone who

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doesn't wear rings. I used to wear a smartwatch to bed a lot for the sleep tracking, but it's pretty uncomfortable

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at times to put your hand under the pillow or if you're sleeping next to a partner and you move your wrist wrong

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and all a sudden you're flashing them in the middle of the night. This is a lot

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but the ring is not just for looks. It does health tracking as well, which is

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fantastic. Here we are in the app. It's pretty easy to set up. All you do is

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enter your information, create an account, and bam, you're in. Since I've

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been using this for a couple weeks now, it already has some information. So, let's take a look through and see what

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kind of results you can expect. On the front screen here, right away, we see

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our score. I am full of energy today. I

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had a good sleep. My vital status is almost at 100%, which is unheard of. My

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activity 73, and I'm pretty relaxed at an 87. It's nice to have all this

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information at a glance on the front dashboard. It would be nice to get a little bit deeper and give me some

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interpretation what these numbers mean right off the bat, but you can dig into

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it and see some of the things that it thinks are affecting things like your stress, your activity levels and goals,

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or your sleep. Like this page, all I did is click on vital status, and it tells

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me that my numbers are normal, but it doesn't actually say why, but I'm glad. One of the main

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reasons I wear smart wearables is for information on sleep. And they do make

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it really clear and easy on that front, which is fantastic. You can see the

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amount of time you spent to sleep, which was not enough, but my efficiency was

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great. You can mark how you felt when you woke up, so it can learn about you and your sleep hygiene, as well as all

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your different sleep stages, so you can see, you know, what disturbed you in the

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middle of the night. Mine was dreams about Riley. It's nice to have so much

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information. It can be a lot. You know, I don't personally check out my HRV or

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SP2 levels, but it's tracking it all the time, and you can look back on a daily

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basis, see how things are changing over time, and see if there's any patterns

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you need to change. And to help with that is the AI features built into the

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app, which I know AI is kind of all over the place and people are rightfully

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upset with some aspects of it. But here it's pretty constrained with you just

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being able to ask it certain questions like how did I sleep? It'll tell you you slept really well and your sleep score

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is really high. You slept for a total of 6 hours and 50 minutes. And you can click see details where it takes you

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back to the sleep screen. On top of sleep, you can ask things like how active am I or about your stress levels

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which is great. Even here it's, you know, suggesting that my stress level is getting a little bit high, which makes

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sense. I get a little nervous in front of you. And my AI gives me kissy emojis.

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But that's not the only way they use AI. If you go to the plan tab here, it'll

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actually create you an AI health plan. So, it'll see what areas you're lacking

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in, where you should push yourself, and how hard, which is great. So, mine says

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I do need to get a little bit more sleep, take a few more steps in the day,

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and lower my stress level. So, I'm

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falling apart. But AI will help me put it all back together.

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Another feature I really like is the vital sign abnormality tracking feature.

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So, if we click on this, you can see that it's warning me that my heart rate

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was a little bit higher later into the evening than normal. As you can see

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here, it shows where my heart rate was at compared to my 7-day average. What's

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nice is you can actually go farther down and flag what the cause of the

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abnormality was. And for me, it was drinking alcohol. On top of being able

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to track what might have caused the abnormality, it does give you some advice on how to prevent this in the

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future. uh in this case, less caffeine, making sure you have your vitamins,

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getting good sleep, all very helpful things. And then you can easily dismiss

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it so you don't have this scary warning at the top of your homepage. Here in the

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fitness section of the app, you have everything you'd hope to see. Standing hours, calories burned, steps, and it

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goes pretty granular, which is great. It'll have your base metabolism versus

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how many active calories you burned, your standing hours, the intensity of

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your workouts, as well as your exercise record, which will GPS track if you have

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your phone with you, which is great. My only complaint is you do have to manually start all your exercises. So,

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if you're going to go for a walk, you have to remember to activate it or if

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you're going for a bike ride or any of the other available activities. I think

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automatic tracking would take it to the next level since this is always on you. And it is IP68 waterproof up to 100 m

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while swimming, which is great. So, you're going to have it on you all the time. So, the Gen 2 Air seems like a

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pretty solid package even when compared to the Gen 2. Sure, you're losing a

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couple days battery life and the sleep apnnea tracking, but for $100 less at

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only $200, it is a great package, especially if you're someone who's just

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getting into the smart wearable world. You don't have to worry about charging it all the time. You don't have to wear

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a bulky watch or worry about constant notifications. And the health tracking

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is really solid and gives you an insight into things that you might not be thinking about. For me personally, I

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think a smart ring and smart glasses like the even reality ones we checked

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out earlier would be an awesome combination of having your notifications

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when you need them and health tracking all the time. So, if you want to get

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your own, you can check out our coupon code in the description to get 5% off. Thanks again to Ringcon for sponsoring

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this video. Uh let us know down in the comments if you're ready to get a smart ring. And if you're looking for

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something else to watch, check out Lionus uh unboxing the Ringcon Gen