Garmin’s Cirqa smart ring surfaces in 10 variants — heading for Oura’s territory

Garmin has not announced a smart ring. But a cluster of product codes filed under the same certification listing in Brazil’s Anatel regulatory database — all submitted by Garmin on the same day — strongly suggests one is close. The documents, first reported by Wareable, point to a device called the Cirqa Smart Ring. Ten model codes appear in the filing, which typically indicates size or color variants of the same product.

For a company built around GPS sport watches, the move into smart rings would be a meaningful shift in strategy. Garmin has spent decades building a reputation with runners, cyclists, and swimmers who treat their watch as a primary training tool. A smart ring positions the company differently: as an option for athletes who want continuous health tracking without strapping a device to their wrist for every waking hour.

The categories the Cirqa would cover — sleep quality, heart rate variability, and daily strain — are the same metrics that Oura Ring and Samsung Galaxy Ring already track. Both have found real audiences: Oura counts more than 2 million paid subscribers, and Samsung’s Galaxy Ring launched in mid-2024 as a direct attempt to expand health tracking beyond the smartwatch. Garmin’s entry, if confirmed, would bring decades of sports-data credibility to a category that has historically struggled to court serious athletes.

Several details the certification documents do not reveal: price, exact sensor configurations, battery life, or any confirmed compatibility list with Garmin’s existing Connect ecosystem. Those omissions are expected at this stage — regulatory filings are procedural, not product announcements. The filing proves Garmin is preparing the device for sale in at least one market; it does not confirm global availability, a launch window, or that the product has not been shelved.

There is real reason for skepticism. Garmin has filed hardware in regulatory databases before products that were delayed, revised significantly, or never reached mass availability. A Brazilian Anatel listing is strong evidence the company is at least past early engineering stages, but it is a single data point from a single database. No Garmin spokesperson has confirmed the product exists.

The smart ring market remains genuinely competitive without a clear winner. Oura, Samsung, and a smaller set of brands including Ultrahuman and RingConn all compete in overlapping price ranges. Garmin’s potential advantage would be trust among athletes who already use Garmin GPS devices — provided the software ecosystem connects meaningfully with their existing training data. Whether the Cirqa integrates with Garmin Connect or operates as a standalone product is not known.

Regulatory filings in databases like Anatel and the FCC typically precede product launches by one to three months, though this varies. No launch date has been announced, and Garmin has made no official statement about the Cirqa. A formal announcement could come at any time, or the product could be further from release than the filing implies.

Tags: wearables, Cirqa, Garmin, Oura Ring, Samsung Galaxy Ring, smart ring