iPad Pro Apple Rumored to Adopt OLED Displays in 'Some' iPad Models Starting Next Year

[jsmith1]

Apple Rumored to Adopt OLED Displays in 'Some' iPad Models Starting Next Year

Apple plans to adopt OLED display technology in "some" iPad models next year, following the recent adoption of mini-LED technology in its highest-end 12.9-inch iPad Pro, according to a report from Korea's ETNews. The report, citing industry sources, claims that Apple will use OLED displays...

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[jsmith1]

Ok I will wait till 11 Oled and hopefully for some kind of Touch ID top or digital...going with this 10.5 Pro for another year...even more bang for the buck this thing has brought

 

[jsmith1]

Air with OLED and 6-8gb ram...several hundreds less than Pro...now that’s the ticket

 

[fwmireault]

I doubt that Apple will give OLED iPads in a near future. It would be a very strange decision considering the blooming ”issue” with the mini-LED. I’d wait from more serious leakers before making such a decision.

I think that you’re right that an iPad Air or Pro 11 with OLED would be very popular device. You can bet that a price increase can be expected with this kind of upgrade. But it would be very nice!!

 

[jsmith1]

I doubt that Apple will give OLED iPads in a near future. It would be a very strange decision considering the blooming ”issue” with the mini-LED. I’d wait from more serious leakers before making such a decision.

I think that you’re right that an iPad Air or Pro 11 with OLED would be very popular device. You can bet that a price increase can be expected with this kind of upgrade. But it would be very nice!!

Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is a very credible leaker

 

[doboy]

Why do you feel the need to open a separate discussion from the main one on FP? You even link to it. It's almost like you're talking to yourself.

 

[jsmith1]

Why do you feel the need to open a separate discussion from the main one on FP? You even link to it. It's almost like you're talking to yourself.

Well I saw this about the iPad on my FB feed and just posted the link to the iPad forum and didn’t see the other comments but thanks for the concern...I guess it’s ok now as I’m talking to you and not myself.

 

[svish]

Wonder if the 11" Pro would get OLED or mini LED. Maybe the iPad Air gets OLED. 🤔

 

[Falhófnir]

I'm dubious, the problems (primarily around PenTile and Pixel density) thrown up by OLED would create a bit of an awkward situation if used on a mid range tablet like the Air.

A PenTile OLED at 264ppi which is current iPad retina density would look terrible. The solution is to increase it, but the way that would work with how iOS handles resolutions means the next step up is @3x retina (395ppi). That might work, but it means (for the iPad Air) that works out at 2460x3540 which would almost certainly make it look better than the Pros which have stayed at @2x 264ppi.

would Apple really put a better screen in the Air? Or perhaps the next iPad Pro update would also bump the resolution to @3x retina.

 

[iPad Bro]

Even if the Air got OLED it doesn’t remedy the fact it has crappy speakers. Let me know when this comes to the Pro lineup and then I’ll be interested.

 

[Digitalguy]

There is no way that Apple puts OLED in the Air and leaves the 11 pro just IPS....
So they either move the 11pro to miniled or, more likely, first move the 11pro to OLED next year and only 1-2 years later bring OLED to the air...
I think OLED in the 11pro makes more sense than on the 12.9 since OLED allows to make devices slightly thinner and lighter, while with miniled it's the opposite....
And for the usual OLED haters that came with the usual Pentile talk etc. There are good and bad OLED displays, you conveniently always talk about the bad ones, trying to imply they are all the same, they all need super high resolutions etc etc to look half-way decent. If Apple come with OLED they will pick the best ones, which don't need messing around with resolution etc, probably the ones that recent Samsung flagships use, or even better ones. And they will calibrate them better than Samsung does.

 

[MrGimper]

Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo is a very credible leaker

Really? Reporting on every possible scenario or outcome so one is bound to stick. Ok, we can all do that. iPads at some point may have OLED screens, or micro-LED screens, or they may not. Look at me, I’m an analyst.

 

[AutomaticApple]

Why do you feel the need to open a separate discussion from the main one on FP? You even link to it. It's almost like you're talking to yourself.

Exactly! This thread should be merged with the main discussion.

 

[jsmith1]

Really? Reporting on every possible scenario or outcome so one is bound to stick. Ok, we can all do that. iPads at some point may have OLED screens, or micro-LED screens, or they may not. Look at me, I’m an analyst.

Keep your day job

 

[MrGimper]

Keep your day job

Maybe I will, maybe I won’t.

 

[jsmith1]

I’m waiting another year now anyway so Air with OLED and 6gb should be here by then

 

[Artsketch]

Maybe a choice for content consumers, but not for professional users.

 

[Digitalguy]

Maybe a choice for content consumers, but not for professional users.

Why? The main professionals using the iPad right now are those that use the pencil, and for them even the IPS one seems to be a better choice according to artists reviews
Other than that, professionals mainly use laptops

 

[Falhófnir]

Why? The main professionals using the iPad right now are those that use the pencil, and for them even the IPS one seems to be a better choice according to artists reviews
Other than that, professionals mainly use laptops

Yes it would probably be better for colour accurate work if you could set the display to act as a regular LCD (I thought that would be how it would behave given something like a block of text can't be accurately lit) mini LED seems best suited to watching HDR content, which in fairness was the only major use case I think regular LCD fell a bit short on.

That does make me wonder if mLED will be an option rather than standard with the MacBook Pros?

 

[Artsketch]

Why? The main professionals using the iPad right now are those that use the pencil, and for them even the IPS one seems to be a better choice according to artists reviews
Other than that, professionals mainly use laptops

Color is even more accurate and the screen is crisp and a little bit cleaner on the new Mini LED. It is the ideal mobile device for photo editing and drawing. Colors on OLED aren’t accurate. This is the reason Apple don’t used OLED yet.

 

[Itsedstech]

It would make Sense to throw OLED on the 11 inch Pro to keep it “portable” with the same brightness if they don’t want to throw a mini led display in it and make it thicker.

 

[Digitalguy]

Color is even more accurate and the screen is crisp and a little bit cleaner. It is the ideal mobile device for photo editing and drawing. Colors on OLED aren’t accurate. This is the reason Apple don’t used OLED yet.

I think color accuracy is down to calibration mainly. Apple calibrates their tablets much better than Samsung, so whenever they adopt OLED colors will look better on iPads than on Samsung tablets and thanks to their anti reflective coating contrast will look better too, probably just as good as miniled (now miniled is better mainly because of the reflectivity of Samsung displays that makes blacks look less dark during the day...) with some advantages likes total lack of blooming and some drawbacks like less brighness (but 600-700 still absolutely feasible).
And burn-in, I have said it many times, is an over-exaggerated issue