Samsung has announced it plans to offer a smart ring, and the company has chosen to call it the Galaxy Ring. The thing is, Samsung already called a product this exact name way back in 2013. Just about everyone on the AP staff had forgotten about it, that is, except for our Gadgets Editor Taylor Kerns, who apparently has the memory of an elephant. So even those who have spent the better part of a decade covering Android phones completely forgot about the budget device that first debuted the name Galaxy Ring. While it wasn't obvious at first that Samsung is indeed leaning on an old name, Virgin Mobile did offer a phone known as the Galaxy Ring, and it's as forgettable as you'd expect as a budget phone for an MVNO. Still, you have to admit it's pretty funny that Samsung couldn't come up with a fresh name for its upcoming smart ring, which smacks of a rushed product jumping on a burgeoning bandwagon.
