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Apple Watch Ultra With MicroLED Display 'Pushed' to Second Half of 2025
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MicroLED has most of the benefits of OLED without most of the drawbacks. In theory, it is the perfect screen technology. It’s just been very hard to get to the point where they can be built in quantity and at a reasonable price. That will likely improve over the next 2-5 years.
See this article for more info on microLED. This focuses on televisions but most of the points apply to smaller screens too.
What Is MicroLED and When Can You Get It?
MicroLED is poised to overtake OLED as the ultimate display technology. Here's how it works and when you can get your hands on it.
If you want one, yes. I'm thinking about it actually, my gen 6 is getting up there in age. It would have been cool to have a new type, brighter, screen, but 2025 is way too long to wait!
This micro-LED stuff feels a lot like the liquid metal phone that was always just around the corner. Don't hold your breath.
I think I confused MicroLED and MiniLED.
MiniLED has blooming effects. There's lots of videos on YouTube criticizing this on iPads.
MicroLED will also have it I think, but it will be so small it won't be perceived by the human eye, so we could say it won't have it.
According to what people say, OLED has burn-in effects - but I have yet to see this in my 5 years old TV. MicroLED will supposedly not have this.
But honestly, the benefits are so small to the end-user. It was noticeable going from a cathodic screen to LCD and then of course to OLED, but OLED is so perfect that something even more perfect won't be noticeable.
MicroLED will not have any blooming. MicroLED does not use a backlight the way that miniLED does. MicroLED works very similarly to OLED. The main difference is that the emitters in microLED are silicon circuits and the ones in OLED are organic chemicals. That makes microLED less prone to fading when driven at higher brightness and that is why they are less likely to have burn-in. Burn-in does still happen on OLEDs under some circumstances. A semi-static screen like a laptop is a prime candidate. MicroLED are also supposed to use significantly less power than OLEDs.
I agree! I don’t care about the screen technology, but I can’t buy it in the current size.