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Re: RingWallet - Wearable Hardware Wallet
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Ringwallet
on 13/05/2024, 16:50:03 UTC
I can understand your point of view. For now the ring is not built to work like that; it works on the finger. But you bring an interesting conundrum and I think that we can add this as an optional for people to decide whether they want to left their rings unlocked or lock them. I still don't understand how the tangem ring would *know* it's not on your finger unless you have an actual information being transmitted, i.e. locking the ring, but we can probably implement a locking mechanism that you can activate from within the app. I'm not 100% sure if we will be able to include this in the absolute first release but I'll have a deeper look at it.

It's just antenna placement and shielding for the NFC. If you get it *just* right you can get it to scan while on your finger. But there is no way you can do it easily. Not so much tech as design.

-Dave


Ok, that makes more sense. I'm not sure that's very good design though if you plan on using it daily / multiple times a day if you always have to take it off. I had figured it's more of a "lock your ring" type of thing which would've made a bit more sense in my opinion.

Perhaps 2 versions?
1 with an better antenna for the people who leave their tap to pay credit cards in their pocket.
And a version for people like me who have their tap to pay credit card in a RF blocking sleeve in an RF blocking wallet in a RF blocking pocket.

-Dave

It's definitely good feedback and honestly not something we had considered a lot. For now I believe a good intermeidary solution would be offering an option where you can manually lock the ring from the app for a period of time. I will consider perhaps having 2 version, but realistically, from an operational & stock perspective I'm not sure that is viable for a first version.