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Apple Developing Its Own MicroLED Displays for Future Devices
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I’ve only ever used iPhone for the past ten years but I’d be opening to trying the S9 for the next few months depending on the PWM measurements.
All I’ll say is when Apple rolls this out people will say “What is OLED?” It’s going to be an amazing display. 
Why's that? When they finally came out with OLED, it was better than anything else out there. I'd imagine they would do the same thing here. Wait until the tech matures to release.
Prolly should do some research on this. This has been a 5-6 year development initially with Japan Display. LG has now assumed the role of JD. Apple has been at the front on this technology. I am not an Apple apologist by any means. This one they will nail.
When did they do that again?
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All I’ll say is when Apple rolls this out people will say “What is OLED?” It’s going to be an amazing display.
Absolutely.
I single out Apple to prove how daft some here are.
They seem to think Apple invents all this stuff.
You and I an others know this isn't the case.
However, I feel we must accept, Apple is one of the lesser companies that actually make anything.
I'm sure Samsung could have a line of Smartphones using their own components and developments.
Apple, whilst good products would be dead in the water without others support.
Please explain. Did they create this display? Did they develop it? The way you talk of this panel in the X, would lead anyone reading your statement to believe Apple is solely or mostly responsible for that display. Please explain in more detail.
Try reading very slowly. Apple released a phone that had an OLED panel that was rated better than any phone previously released. That’s it.
Man, the android apologists can’t just accept this and move on. This is what Apple has always done. They are usually late to the party and then they release a better version. The same thing happened with OLED. The same thing happened with facial recognition. The same thing will happen with microLED. I mean, be thrilled you’re always first to the market if it makes ya feel better? I don’t know, just move on.
Boy oh boy.
Let's just wait and see what microLED has to offer.
Your claim, that X has already the best OLED is just wrong.
http://www.displaymate.com/iPhoneX_ShootOut_1a.htm
http://www.displaymate.com/Galaxy_S8_ShootOut_01.htm
Also notice, that the S8 consumes 0,75W less power at 50% brightness...
From your link...
The Best Smartphone Display
· The iPhone X is the most innovative and high performance Smartphone display that we have ever tested.
· First we need to congratulate Samsung Display for developing and manufacturing the outstanding OLED display hardware in the iPhone X.
· But what makes the iPhone X the Best Smartphone Display is the impressive Precision Display Calibration that Apple developed that transforms the OLED hardware into a superbly accurate, high performance, and gorgeous display!!
LOL, trying your hardest to avoid giving credit to the true innovator of that display. Exactly what I thought. All good.
Samsung apparently sold them 2016’s OLED and they came out with a better OLED. So Apple did something right.
I have no issue giving credit to Samsung for manufacturing the display, but it doesn’t have anything to do with my point. Apple waited until the technology matured, took a display Samsung manufactured, calibrated it, and made it better. Everyone wins.
So we should all go and rebrand our TVs, Joe Smith, or whatever the name of the person is, who calibrated your TV. Oh I know, maybe we can just call our TVs by the name of the store we bought it at and had someone from the store calibrate it for you. Yeah that's it, check out my new Best Buy TV, Geek Squad editon. Lol. What a joke.
Unlimited pool of cash doesn't guarantee you solutions to problem and breakthroughs. People do. Money is just there to keep the right people. If they can't recognize and grab key people in MicroLED industry they will get nowhere.
Sony and Samsung are already way ahead in MicroLED game anyway and they do work on downsizing as well.
OLED and mLED are both LED, so they have the same display characteristics and advantages over LCD. Fully off is black. Wide display angles. Etc.
The main difference is:
- OLED is made from organic materials like polymers that are carbon and hydrogen based. Commonly used in high resolution flat displays from watches to smartphones to TVs.
- mLED is made using inorganic materials like compounds of gallium, silicon, nitrogen. Large inorganic LEDs are used all around us as common red or green power indicators, and in white or yellow for bulb replacements. Note these are mostly fairly large single dot applications. (Older calculators used tiny red gallium arsenide LED dot matrix displays for numbers.)
So really they should be called OLED (organic) and ILED (inorganic). But who would buy something called "inorganic"? Thus they use the cooler sounding "micro" moniker. Kind of like how "liquid metal" sounds so much cooler than saying "plastic metal", which likewise is closer to reality.
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However, to actually qualify as "microLED", each inorganic LED is supposed to be 100 microns in diameter or less. If it were possible to jam them side by side, that's roughly 250 PPI. In real life, commercial mLEDs are still around 150 microns and used at more like 5-25 PPI.
While one-off experimental mLED displays have been made at 1000 PPI and higher, they're also fingernail sized and only a single color.
Currently the search is on for a breakthrough method of making mLED panels on a scale and resolution that would make them competitive with OLED at even a watch sized display. But so far they've been commercially viable only for wall sized displays made up of relatively large pixel blocks at a very low PPI.
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How are they leapfrog Samsung. Samsung has the world's first MicroLED TV going on sale soon. Lol.
Yeah, but lower cost for Apple doesn't mean lower sales price for us.
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Not yet, there are still some third party components they need to kick out.
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No they didn't, they are expected to do so next September: https://www.homecinemamagazine.nl/2018/02/lg-komt-september-eerste-microled-televisie/