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iPad Pro Could Adopt OLED Display With ProMotion Down to 10Hz in 2023 or 2024

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Apple is planning two new iPad Pro models with low-power LTPO OLED displays for release in 2023 or 2024, according to Korean website The Elec. The report claims that one of the new models will likely have a 12.9-inch display.

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While the iPad Pro has featured ProMotion since 2017, the device supports a smaller range of refresh rates between 24Hz and 120Hz. Following in the footsteps of the iPhone 13 Pro, the switch to LTPO OLED display technology could pave the way for future iPad Pro models to support a wider range of refresh rates between 10Hz and 120Hz.

Refresh rates supported by 2017 and newer iPad Pro models:
  • 120Hz
  • 60Hz
  • 40Hz
  • 30Hz
  • 24Hz
Refresh rates supported by the iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max:
  • 120Hz
  • 80Hz
  • 60Hz
  • 48Hz
  • 40Hz
  • 30Hz
  • 24Hz
  • 20Hz
  • 16Hz
  • 15Hz
  • 12Hz
  • 10Hz
In an investor note with TF International Securities, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo recently claimed that Apple abandoned its plans to release an iPad with an OLED display in 2022, with multiple sources now agreeing on a 2023 or later timeframe.

It's worth noting that, back in July, Display Supply Chain Consultants analyst Ross Young claimed that the first iPad with an OLED display would be released in 2023. Young has proven to be a reliable source for display-related rumors, including accurately revealing that the new iPad mini would feature an 8.3-inch display.

Article Link: iPad Pro Could Adopt OLED Display With ProMotion Down to 10Hz in 2023 or 2024
 
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So, apple invest billions into mini led for the iPad Pro, release the iPad Pro with constrained supply then turn around in a years time and say, actually, no, we will use OLED. Something smells fishy to me. I would imagine they would be pushing for Micro-LED before the go to OLED…
 
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2023 is good with me, I can't swap iPads on an annual basis.As much as I like my new mini I would like to see a mini pro with OLED more than a 12.9 with OLED considering how good the display is on my current 2021 pro.
 
Oh ok so now they suddenly think “hmm, OLED is still pretty darn good so let’s bring OLED to iPad Pro instead of iPad Air”. Wow… mind blowing achievements. :rolleyes:

I know miniLED is supposed to be transitional technology but somehow miniLED is no longer good enough? Or apple managed to secure a few OLED suppliers that is not Samsung?
 
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Confused! 🤷🏻‍♂️ So OLED is now the future of high-end iPad screens and the blooming mini-LED is a mere stepping stone towards it?
 
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I’m one of those who saw them to deliver OLED on cheaper devices. They engineered their miniLED only to use it once? I would expect the miniLED to evolve (smaller LEDs, more zones) before transitioning to microLED on their Pro devices.
 
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Lukomaldini said:
So, apple invest billions into mini led for the iPad Pro, release the iPad Pro with constrained supply then turn around in a years time and say, actually, no, we will use OLED. Something smells fishy to me. I would imagine they would be pushing for Micro-LED before the go to OLED…
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Pushing for micro-LED would only make sense if the tech is available and reasonably affordable as per Apple’s standards. I guess that today a micro-LED panel would still be more expensive than a quality OLED panel of the same size?
 
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This is wonderful news as it’ll allow me a couple years to enjoy my M1 iPad that I’m planning on buying very soon without it being upstaged by an OLED Pro so quickly. I’m going to get a 1TB Wi-Fi + 5G version so at around $2K it’ll be the most I’ve ever spent on an Apple product…so yeah I don’t want it to feel outdated anytime soon lol.
 
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Don't get all those saying Apple have abandoned miniLED after only a year. It's likely at least 2 if not 3 iPad Pros will use miniLED before any OLED iPad Pro comes out. Technology moves on and even though Apple did invest a lot of money into miniLED they must have known it would only last them a few years before something else came along.

I think Apple is quite pessimistic about microLED - I remember they were rumoured to have invested in at least one microLED company years ago for Apple Watch displays and that has seemingly gone nowhere.

Tied in to the recent OLED iPad Air news, I wonder if Apple didn't like Samsung's proposed price for a tandem stacked OLED (considering Samsung would have to set up a tandem stacked OLED line), but considered it acceptable for the iPad Pro to maintain margins.

At the end of the day, who knows. I'm sure Apple is working on LPTO OLED iPad Pros, but whether they ever progress past prototypes is anyone's guess. It could conceivably end up that the Air gets miniLED once the costs have come down (with lower brightness then the current Pro) and the Pro gets LTPO OLED.
 
Seems kind of silly. By 2023 I’ll have had oled laptops for 4-5 yrs or so. But yay apple finally figures it out for largely consumption devices that are all about the screen? Whatever the case seems like a long time before I’ll get rid of 2018 iPad Pro. I’ve hardly any interest wasting any more money on iPads.
 
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Keep in mind that mini-LED is not the same as micro-LED; Apple is investing long term into micro-LED but to get there, miniLEDs has to be invested in too because for microLED to succeed, the LED must shrink down to basically nano-scale. We can't jump from current LED to micro-LED right away, that's where mini-LED investment comes in. It's a transitional tech, Apple is working out all of the glitches like blooming, etc now to not have to deal with it on a nano-scale with smaller LEDs.


OLED will continue to be the best mass-produced tech at the moment for Apple to stick with. miniLED will be used when it is cheap enough for them to invest and experiment with. I wouldn't be surprised to see it go away completely and come back in a new iteration that might fix several issues.
 
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The tech evolution is more like LCD -> mini-LED -> OLED -> micro-LED, right?
 
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I will not buy any portable mini-LED machine in the foreseeable future. I'm a media consumer not a producer. I'll be waiting with my 2017 iPad Pro 10.5" until an 11" or so sized iPad with OLED is released.
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Yep pretty much this.
 
Unless there is some noticeable and functional reason that an iPad Pro screen needs to scale down to include additional 20Hz or lower rates, I’m not sure why Apple would switch to OLED at this point. I think the better bet to make is that they continue with improvements to mini-LED, while working in the background on micro-LED.
 
This is what they should’ve released instead of the mini-LED tech in the first place. Sigh, I doubt my 2017 iPad Pro can hang on until 2023-2024.
 
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I will not buy any portable mini-LED machine in the foreseeable future. I'm a media consumer not a producer. I'll be waiting with my 2017 iPad Pro 10.5" until an 11" or so sized iPad with OLED is released.
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I have the same iPad Pro and it still works so smoothly tbh
 
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