Ultrahuman's $479 Ring Pro Reaches Best Buy Shelves, With In-Store Sizing and No Subscription

BENGALURU, India - Ultrahuman’s Ring Pro is now on store shelves in the United States. The company said on Thursday that the titanium smart ring is available without preorders or delays, online through its own store, Best Buy, Target and Walmart, and in person at 300 Best Buy locations, Android Central reported. It costs $479 and comes with Ultrahuman’s Pro charging case, according to GSMArena.

The store rollout takes on the most awkward part of buying a smart ring, which is guessing the size. At Best Buy, shoppers can try the Ring Pro on, get sized and take it home the same day. Ultrahuman said it is working to bring the ring into Target and Walmart stores over the next few weeks.

“We’re delighted to be on sale in the U.S. so customers can get hold of Ring PRO without pre-orders or delays,” Mohit Kumar, Ultrahuman’s founder and chief executive, said in the announcement, as quoted by Android Central.

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Buyers who order online can still size at home. Ultrahuman ships a sizing kit free with orders from its own site, while Best Buy, Target and Walmart sell kits for $10, GSMArena reported. The ring comes in sizes 5 through 14 and in Raw Titanium, Bionic Gold, Space Silver and Aster Black.

Ultrahuman rates the Ring Pro at up to 15 days on a charge and up to 45 days with the charging case. On its product page, the company says the ring can hold up to 250 days of data and the case up to a year, so readings survive long stretches away from a phone. The case has a speaker for a Find My Case feature, lights that show the battery level of the ring and the case, and Qi wireless charging.

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Inside, the ring uses Bluetooth Low Energy 5.3 and on-chip machine learning, and Ultrahuman says a redesigned heart rate sensor improves signal quality during sleep and recovery. A feature it calls ProRelease Technology lets the ring be cut off more easily if a finger swells or is injured. Core health tracking does not require a subscription, a selling point against rivals that put some metrics behind monthly fees. Optional software add-ons cost up to $6.90 a month, Android Headlines reported.

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The retail push lands a week after Oura went back to court. On Oct. 22, Oura sued Ultrahuman in federal court in Texas, alleging that the Ring Pro infringes two of its patents and asking for a permanent injunction, as Techtember reported. Ultrahuman has said it will fight the suit and that no court order affects the Ring Pro, which remains on sale while the case proceeds.

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