{"id":5290,"date":"2025-05-16T21:17:15","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T13:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/acers-surprise-new-device-is-nothing-to-do-with-your-laptop-its-a-fitness-tracking-smart-ring\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T21:17:15","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T13:17:15","slug":"acers-surprise-new-device-is-nothing-to-do-with-your-laptop-its-a-fitness-tracking-smart-ring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/acers-surprise-new-device-is-nothing-to-do-with-your-laptop-its-a-fitness-tracking-smart-ring\/","title":{"rendered":"Acer&#8217;s surprise new device is nothing to do with your laptop \u2013 it&#8217;s a fitness-tracking smart ring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/QZKWQpLHM6LrUAGaxv5hoK.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<hr\/>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Acer, a company best known for computing components, is releasing a new health-tracking smart ring<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The Acer FreeSense Ring comes in Rose Gold or Black, and will pack &#8216;AI enhanced&#8217; wellness insights<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Acer hasn&#8217;t announced a price of the ring, but it has said there will be no additional subscription fee<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr\/>\n<p><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/acer\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/acer\">Acer<\/a> has announced the Acer FreeSense Ring, a new health-tracking smart ring offering &#8216;AI enhanced&#8217; wellness insights.<\/p>\n<p>It was unveiled at this year&#8217;s Computex conference in Taipei, and we don&#8217;t yet know how much the Ring will cost, or when it will go on sale \u2013 but we do know that it won&#8217;t come with any additional subscription fees.<\/p>\n<aside data-block-type=\"embed\" data-render-type=\"fte\" data-skip=\"dealsy\" data-widget-type=\"seasonal\" class=\"hawk-base\"\/>\n<p>With two color options, Rose Gold (a matte finish) or Black (gloss finish), the Ring will be available in sizes 7-13. It&#8217;ll weigh between 2-3g, and Acer says it&#8217;s &#8220;crafted from ultra-light titanium alloy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<aside data-component-name=\"Recirculation:ArticleRiver\" data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<span class=\"bg-secondary-500 text-white text-lg font-bold uppercase py-1 px-2 leading-[1.625rem] sm:leading-[6px] sm:text-sm\"><br \/>\nYou may like<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Even the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/health-fitness\/fitness-trackers\/best-smart-ring\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/health-fitness\/fitness-trackers\/best-smart-ring\">best smart rings<\/a> have a plastic interior to better accommodate the sensor array, and we imagine that will also be the case here. It&#8217;s waterproof-rated at 5ATM, which means it&#8217;s shower- and swim-safe, but likely not suitable for diving.<\/p>\n<p>The Acer FreeSense sounds a lot like other smart rings from Oura and <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/samsung\" data-auto-tag-linker=\"true\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/tag\/samsung\">Samsung<\/a>, specifically in terms of the data it collects. A press release from Acer states that &#8220;the ring tracks vital physiological metrics such as heart rate, heart rate variability, blood oxygen levels, and sleep quality.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The data points are analyzed through a companion mobile app, which generates personalized wellness insights and provides suggestions. With features such as sleep stage analysis and continuous tracking, the Acer FreeSense Ring helps encourage proactive health management and lifestyle awareness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"back-in-the-health-fitness-ring-3\">Back in the health &amp; fitness ring<\/h2>\n<p>Acer has released smartwatches and fitness trackers in the past with its Acer Leap range, but none of those devices ranked among the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/best\/best-fitness-trackers\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/best\/best-fitness-trackers\">best fitness trackers <\/a>of the era, and never really caught on. With smart rings now a rapidly growing category of health device, this could prove to be a second chance for Acer in the health space.<\/p>\n<div id=\"slice-container-newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-tYJacNuWgNth5kM9LfB8iG\" class=\"slice-container newsletter-inbodyContent-slice newsletterForm-articleInbodyContent-tYJacNuWgNth5kM9LfB8iG slice-container-newsletterForm\">\n<div data-hydrate=\"true\" class=\"newsletter-form__wrapper newsletter-form__wrapper--inbodyContent\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form__container\">\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__top-bar\"\/>\n<section class=\"newsletter-form__main-section\">\n<p class=\"newsletter-form__strapline\">Sign up for breaking news, reviews, opinion, top tech deals, and more.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Acer is also the latest of several smart-ring manufacturer to make a point of the fact that its device doesn&#8217;t require an additional subscription, as a key selling point to differentiate it from the likes of the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/health-fitness\/oura-ring-4-review\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/health-fitness\/oura-ring-4-review\">Oura Ring 4<\/a>. With so many <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/health-fitness\/from-garmin-to-whoop-and-polar-the-rise-in-fitness-tech-subscriptions-is-a-sign-that-one-day-well-own-nothing\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/health-fitness\/from-garmin-to-whoop-and-polar-the-rise-in-fitness-tech-subscriptions-is-a-sign-that-one-day-well-own-nothing\">health and fitness services now requiring a subscription<\/a>, it&#8217;s refreshing to see more companies embracing the one-time-purchase philosophy.<\/p>\n<p>Acer is already busy at Computex this year \u2013 in addition to the FreeSense Ring it&#8217;s also announced a pair of earbuds specifically for translation, a new range of<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/best\/electric-bike\" data-before-rewrite-localise=\"https:\/\/www.techradar.com\/best\/electric-bike\/\"> electric bikes<\/a>, and computing equipment.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"article-body__section\" id=\"section-you-might-also-like\"><span>You might also like&#8230;<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Acer, a company best known for computing components, is releasing a new health-tracking smart ring The Acer FreeSense Ring comes in Rose Gold or Black, and will pack &#8216;AI enhanced&#8217; wellness insights Acer hasn&#8217;t announced a price of the ring, but it has said there will be no additional subscription fee Acer has announced the [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5291,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5290","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cicserver.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}