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

xxray said:
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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Why should apple wait though and have LCD panels until 2023? Mini led is very good for most part certainly for content. So if the cycle goes

LCD
mini led
OLED
micro

that seems like a good idea.
 
The Game 161 said:
Why should apple wait though and have LCD panels until 2023? Mini led is very good for most part certainly for content. So if the cycle goes

LCD
mini led
OLED
micro

that seems like a good idea.
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I’m saying they should’ve gone straight from LCD to OLED this year. Skip mini-led altogether.

Apple already has used OLED since 2015 on Apple Watches and OLED on iPhone since 2017. There’s little to no risk of burn-in on Apple’s OLED panels and they get just as bright as Mini-LED but with no blooming and are more power efficient.
 
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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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It says 2023/2024, not next year. Read again.

That's plenty of time until they use miniLED enough times, and OLED will get better by that time also.
 
kiranmk2 said:
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 …
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Yeah, but normally technology moves on in only one direction. Not forwards and then backwards.
 
No problem. I'll just trade-in my iPad Pro M1 towards the Galaxy Tab S8+ or Ultra.
 
now i see it said:
Are people supposed to get excited about OLED screens? From my experience they’re a downgrade from top tier LCD.
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I LOOOOVE the AMOLED screen on my Galaxy Book. Unbeatable for movies. If the new iPad Pro had OLED, I would have upgraded my 2018 12.9, but I just got the Samsung instead.

I DO love that we’re now talking about how LOW a refresh rate we can get… My $4,000 MacBook Pro 16” has the lowest refresh rate I’ve ever seen. You just close the lid.
 
now i see it said:
Are people supposed to get excited about OLED screens? From my experience they’re a downgrade from top tier LCD.
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Yep. In 2023 all the excitement will be oled iPads. Everyone you know will want this “latest”tech.

Nevermind we’ll be used to 48mp iPhones and 8k recording. Lg oled TVs will have been out for 10 years. Oled Laptops 4-5 years. Oled iPhones 6-7 years.

iPad 3 was the best screen (at that time) you could get on a tablet device in 2012 (beside maybe a nexus 10 but who bought that?). The basic improvement since then has been 120hz and perhaps p3 color space in 2016 with 9.7” iPad Pro. And of course mini led on one iPad most recently. Same ppi since 2012 for any of them. Still no 4K iPad.
 
Looks like they are tapping up LG for these displays (LG already make tandem OLEDs for automotive)

LGD is developing a tandem-stack 12.9" LTPO AMOLED display for Apple's 2024 iPads | OLED-Info

A few days ago we posted that Apple has reportedly decided to delay its iPad OLED launch to 2023, and the company canceled its current joint development project with Samsung Display, as SDC could not develop what Apple wanted - a tandem stack structure, which would have improved the lifetime and...
www.oled-info.com www.oled-info.com
 
Still sporting a 1st gen iPad Pro 12.9". Works just great and equally fast as back on iOS9 if you pay attention NOT to let it update itself over OTA but always reformat it yourself and don't restore any backup, except for PIM data over iCloud. Wouldn't upgrade to recent models, given Apple's not offering anything substantial software compatibility difference.
 
Apple could adopt OLED, but I seriously doubt they will.

Based on the OLED predictions that get pushed out every other month, OLED seems to be a Plan B in case things don't mature enough with mini LED.

Many people are comparing first gen mini LED with relatively mature OLED. There's plenty of room for improvement.
 
Hate to admit it but mini LED is still not able to replace OLED unless micro LED comes. But Samsung didnt want to develop and manufacture double stack OLED so how would they gonna use OLED?
 
Oled iPad 🤢🤮 one yellow tint, off axis colour shift device is enough for me, no thanks.
 
LOL! The fan club members are arguing about this unsubstantiated rumor as though it was news. Hey people, it isn’t even fake news. It is merely an unsubstantiated rumor, and that is all. Don’t get your panties in a wad over MR click-bait.
 
boak said:
The tech evolution is more like LCD -> mini-LED -> OLED -> micro-LED, right?
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OLED is entirely different evolution, it is organic LED, that's why they have problems with burning out over time. MicroLED wouldn't have this problem because it uses inorganic LED.

It's LCD > miniLED (backlighting powered by miniLED inside LCD) > microLED, entirely LED-powered, no backlight. That's why microLED will have true blacks compared to OLED, there will be no two separate components; one for LED and one for backlighting.

Scott6666 said:
I thought OLED had burn in issues so mini-LED would be better.
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miniLED is just LCD panel with backlighting powered by smaller LEDs. It doesn't complete with OLED.

MicroLED is what completes with OLED because the LED is what powers the whole panel with no backlighting required.
 
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MikhailT said:
OLED is entirely different evolution, it is organic LED, that's why they have problems with burning out over time. MicroLED wouldn't have this problem because it uses inorganic LED.

It's LCD > miniLED (backlighting powered by miniLED inside LCD) > microLED, entirely LED-powered, no backlight. That's why microLED will have true blacks compared to OLED, there will be no two separate components; one for LED and one for backlighting.


miniLED is just LCD panel with backlighting powered by smaller LEDs. It doesn't complete with OLED.

MicroLED is what completes with OLED because the LED is what powers the whole panel with no backlighting required.
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I feel completed now thanks.
 
jmgregory1 said:
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.
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one more said:
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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Agreed, still super expensive at the moment but it wouldn’t uprise me if apple are thinking ahead to that. They say at least 5 years before it becomes consumer level, but I would probably give it a decade tbh. Maybe apple can shave a few years of that… a boy can dream
 
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