![]() ![]() ![]() But I'm coming from the Garmin Fenix 7s and I wore that for about half a year. So I just signed up and got my Oura Ring about 1 week ago so early user here. It has only been completely depleted (battery) once. My ring is 14+ months old (acquired during the forced upgrade in October/Nov 2021). That number goes up closer to 7days if I turn off SpO2. I get 3-5 days battery life with SpO2 enabled (4 is safe, sometimes 5-rarely 3). I don’t expect a tiny ring to be able to measure that sort of thing with any level of granularity to provide the detail that I want. I use my Garmin (et al) for activity and life movement tracking. The first two are the only reason I got my G2 and period prediction is the only reason I got G3 (except the whole forced upgrade thing). The hit seems more profound because the battery is quite a bit smaller, but the % of total battery life is on par with all other wearables using this technology.įWIW-I use the Oura for sleep tracking, recovery metrics and period prediction. So yeah-my battery life drops if I have SpO2 enabled on my Oura-at about the same rate as it drops in all of my wearables when I have it enabled. On this sub, it seems the expectation that Oura will magically have a way to measure this that doesn’t impact battery life the way it does with every single other thing that uses this kind of sensor. I get about the same % rate drop in battery life for every wearable I have when I turn on SpO2. It’s an SpO2 sensor thing (enable/disable it on your Garmin and see the amount of change in expected battery life - not just the number of days-your Garmin battery is 799 times the size of the Oura battery - but how much does it change when you disable/enable that feature). This is the case with EVERY wearable that has SpO2 sensing. SpO2 uses a different kind of sensor than everything else. This is a function of the delay in the elevation of the HR due to the activity itself and the additional delay in getting that HR to the sensor. Also-all optical HR sensors struggle with HIIT. I don’t even use that feature (I use my Garmin because I am interested in the actual data that goes with my workouts-not just a random HR chart). It’s never going to give you anything remotely close to what the Garmin does. Oura is still the best of my options.Īctivity tracking…this is a big ask for a little ring. But my current Garmin is light years ahead of my prior Garmin (Fenix 6s-S). Considerably better than what my Garmin (Fenix 7s-SS) has. My dream setup would be to use the Oura for both sleeping and activity tracking and use a regular analog watch (with chronograph) to complement the ring while tracking activities. ![]() I have gotten used to wearing it at night but long for the comfort i had with the Oura ring. But sleeping with it is not comfortable and the sleep algorythm are not as solid as what Oura had in the past. I currenlty use a Garmin Fenix 7s which i really enjoy for sports tracking. SPo2 tracking: How are you finding it in regards to battery consumption ? I also like to meditate and remember i could use it for this purpose already back then. What's your take on this ? I was thinking on using it for running and HIIT session. Now, i read some reviews about it and it looks pretty sketchy to me. Activity tracking: I was super interested in this feature back then but when they said it would only come end of 2022, lost all hope. I heard about a new sleep algorythm, is it really more accurate than it was before ? Sleep tracking ? It was pretty good back then. Have things improved and how are you guys using it really. I kept my Gen 3 only 2 months than sold it, disappointed by all the bugs and missing features back then. I had the Gen 2 for almost 2 years then moved to Gen 3 thinking it would be better and living off their promises back then of SPo2, better temp sensors, Activity tracking etc.
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