I’m de-influencing you from buying the RingConn 3 (even though it’s pretty)
A tech reviewer shares their experience testing the RingConn 3 wearable health tracker, ultimately deciding to return it. The author critiques the subscription-based business models of competitors like Oura while evaluating the device's design and build quality.
Why it matters
It highlights consumer frustration with subscription-heavy business models in the growing wearable health technology market.
I would’ve bought a wearable health tracker a lot sooner if they all weren’t so ugly.
I don’t want a glowing screen on my wrist, and the woven Whoop bracelet looks like something I would’ve made at summer camp. But in the last few months, both RingConn and Oura have launched slimmer hardware that actually blends in with jewelry, so you don’t have to scream to the world that you’re currently monitoring your blood-oxygen level.
So, against my better judgement — and the knowledge that I am giving a tech company my health data for no reason — I bought my first daily wearable health tracker: the RingConn 3 . Roughly ten days later, I was relieved to find out that I was still within the two-week return period and dropped it off at the post office.
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