Oura Ring 4 Ceramic review: a colorful glow up

Let’s beryllium honest, astir tech wearables are bulky and not precisely what you’d picture arsenic pretty. But erstwhile you’re regularly wearing thing connected your hands, you astir apt privation it to look bully and possibly adjacent blend successful with the remainder of your jewelry. That’s the thought down Oura’s newest astute ring, the Oura Ring 4 Ceramic.

The Ring 4 Ceramic is Oura’s archetypal postulation of astute rings that don’t feature metallic finishes. Instead, they’re made from zirconia ceramic, a much wear-resistant ceramic, which Oura says allows for some benignant and comfort.  

I’ve tested the Oura Ring 4 Ceramic for the past 3 weeks, and here’s my acquisition with it.  

However, earlier we get into the specifics, it’s worth noting that since the bundle down the Oura Ring 4 Ceramic is the aforesaid arsenic the Oura Ring 4, I won’t be getting excessively overmuch into the bundle and hardware broadside of things. For that, you tin cheque out our Oura Ring 4 review.  

Finish and feel 

The Oura Ring 4 comes successful 4 colors: Midnight (dark blue), Cloud (white), Tide (light teal), and Petal (light pink). The ringing costs $150 much than the starting terms of the modular Ring 4, with a $500 terms tag, and is disposable successful sizes 4-15.  

I opted for Midnight. Although that shadiness is technically acheronian blue, it tin look achromatic from afar — oregon adjacent a acheronian shadiness of green, I’ve been told. The ringing doesn’t look similar a tech wearable astatine archetypal glance, which is bully if you privation to prioritize aesthetics without sacrificing functionality.

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When compared to the archetypal Ring 4, the Ceramic mentation is simply a spot thicker, but it’s not ace noticeable. The titanium mentation is 2.88 mm thick, portion the ceramic mentation measures 3.51 mm.

As for the weight, the ringing tin measurement betwixt 5.1 to 8.1 grams, depending connected the size you get, making it heavier than the Titanium Ring 4, which weighs betwixt 3.3 and 5.2 grams.

Despite being thicker and heavier than its predecessor, I recovered the Oura Ring 4 Ceramic to beryllium comfy and lightweight, adjacent erstwhile compared to a modular metallic band. It feels similar a beauteous regular ring, conscionable a spot thicker.

The ringing is creaseless and not arsenic prone to collecting fingerprints arsenic the titanium versions of the Ring 4. Since the zirconia ceramic is warmer and little slick than the titanium rings, the Ring 4 Ceramic tin consciousness a spot “sticky” astatine times, meaning the extracurricular of the ringing mightiness consciousness similar it’s sticking oregon clinging to the sides of your fingers, but I did get utilized to the consciousness of the ring pretty quickly.  

Oura says the colour connected the rings comes from earthy minerals successful the ceramic itself, truthful it stays vibrant and doesn’t fade implicit time. (Of course, I’ve only had the ringing for 3 weeks, truthful I can’t speak to how it would hold up agelong term, but truthful far, the colour is identical to what it was connected time one.)

Durability 

Oura says that Ring 4 Ceramic is prone to scuffs from softer metals, similar those recovered successful cookware oregon dumbbells. The institution says these scuffs tin beryllium addressed with the Polishing Pad that comes with the ring. (The reappraisal portion I received from Oura did not see the Polishing Pad, however.)

While determination were moments erstwhile I thought I could spot scuffs on the ring, they ended up being smudges that I was amazingly capable to clean away with the borderline of my garment oregon sweater.

The institution besides recommends wearing the ringing connected your non-dominant manus to debar unnecessary impact. However, the ringing just felt right connected my ascendant scale finger, so that’s where I wore it for the past 3 weeks. This exposed it to much imaginable harm successful a briefer play of clip than a emblematic lawsuit mightiness see.

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The archetypal time I enactment connected the ring, I enactment it done a engaged question time to TechCrunch Disrupt, our yearly league successful San Francisco. I wasn’t sure however good the ringing would clasp up with maine hauling my luggage around, accidentally hitting the ring on a fewer counters (I’m clumsy!), or letting it brushwood against the airplane window erstwhile I leaned successful for a nap.  

As it turned out, the ringing made it done each of that unscathed. There were adjacent a fistful of moments erstwhile I was definite I had scratched it — similar when I was holding onto a rusty railing walking up the steps of the Point Arena Lighthouse, forgetting that I had the ringing on, oregon erstwhile I forgot to region it earlier doing the dishes. But the ringing didn’t extremity up with immoderate marks oregon imperishable damage.

It’s worthy mentioning that though the ringing is water-resistant up to 100 meters, which means you tin deterioration it portion doing the dishes oregon showering, I personally took it disconnected portion doing the dishes due to the fact that Oura warns that the ringing tin scuff erstwhile it comes into interaction with softer metals.

Since I’ve had little than a period with the ring, I wouldn’t be amazed if, further down the line, the ring were to collect astatine slightest immoderate scuffs oregon dents, particularly fixed its determination connected my ascendant hand.

Final thoughts  

Beyond aesthetics, I recovered the ringing rather utile successful helping maine recognize my bosom health, sleep, and accent done the Oura app. Each morning, I recovered myself looking guardant to seeing my “readiness score,” which is calculated utilizing some short-term and semipermanent metrics to amusement however prepared you are for the time ahead.

Plus, the artillery beingness is holding up well, arsenic I’ve lone had to complaint it erstwhile per week, which is connected par with Oura’s committedness of a artillery that lasts betwixt 5-8 days.

Choosing betwixt a titanium and a ceramic ring ultimately depends on your aesthetic preferences and your perfect terms point. With colour and worldly being the lone differences betwixt the two, it truly comes down to whether you privation a sleek, modern decorativeness oregon the standard metallic astute ring look. 

If you privation that popular of colour and style, past the Oura Ring 4 Ceramic mightiness beryllium the astute ringing for you.