iPad Pro Said to Adopt OLED Displays in Late 2021 Following Mini-LED Model in Early 2021

[yakapo]

So we will hear a lot from Apple on how amazing mini LED is, to just have it updated later on a year to OLED? That’s a bit strange!

They released a new MacBook Air eight months ago. You need to think like a ceo. What maximizes revenue?

 

[xgman]

Yeah this is odd to say the least. maybe micro costs Apple less until oled does later in the year.

 

[rafark]

So we will hear a lot from Apple on how amazing mini LED is, to just have it updated later on a year to OLED? That’s a bit strange!

I think I read somewhere that mini led is not as good as oled (doesn't achieve the blacks oled has).

 

[klasma]

I'm going to add my own input to this and argue that OLED is better. The iPhone 11 Pros and iPhone 12 Pros are OLED screens that go up to 800 nits of sustained brightness and something like 1200 nits of HDR brightness, which are both brighter than any current iPad screen (the current best iPad screens are around 625 nits of brightness iirc).

Mini LED has contrast zones, which allow for groups of pixels to turn on/off together, which does provide better contrast than current LCD screens. HOWEVER, it's still not as good as the pure black contrast of OLED, which can turn on/off every single individual pixel. Therefore, I think that OLED will get plenty bright enough while offering the best contrast possible.

The only advantage of Mini LED over OLED, to me, is the fact that you don't have to worry about burn-in with Mini LED like you do with OLED. However, Apple's OLED technology seems to prevent burn-in very well. I've seen very few reports of OLED burn-in on Apple devices, even with the iPhone X being 3 years old at this point.

Also Samsung has been putting out OLED tablets for a couple of years now, and they don’t seem to have a lot of problems with burn-in.

 

[justperry]

I’m figuring that the A14 and more efficient mini LED will help with battery life.

Sure, but no big jumps as seen on the Intel to M1 transistion.

 

[Darth Tulhu]

Get ready to cycle your Apple products way more often if Apple decides to use OLED for all their screened devices.

It already started with iPhone. Make sure you're on that iPhone forever (or whatever) plan, or sell it upon every iPhone release, because in two years your phone's screen is going to look like garbage.

Lease everything, own nothing. This is the Apple (iOS) way forward.

 

[ProfessionalFan]

Get ready to cycle your Apple products way more often if Apple decides to use OLED for all their screened devices.

It already started with iPhone. Make sure you're on that iPhone forever (or whatever) plan, or sell it upon every iPhone release, because in two years your phone's screen is going to look like garbage.

Lease everything, own nothing. This is the Apple (iOS) way forward.

My family has a launch day iPhone X and launch day XS that remain perfect to this day

 

[jonen]

I'm surprised there are a handful of people doubting this from the get go. I just bought a 2020 Macbook Air... and then Apple decided to release the M1 6-7 months later. I wouldn't put this type of release past Apple at this point.

Tons of people will probably buy the mini-LED version... and then tons of other people will buy the OLED version later in the year... 😂

 

[Phil77354]

I'm not familiar enough with the various display technologies to have an opinion on OLED vs mini LED, or something else.

I do strongly desire that they keep the same footprint for the 11" model so that the expensive accessories I just purchased for my 2020 iPad Pro will still be usable!

 

[klasma]

Agreed, microLED is just "the best". But we're few years away from iPads rocking it.

MicroLED isn’t free of issues either. One problem is that the color primaries are so narrow (frequency spike) that it amplifies the individual differences in color perception. Meaning for example that what looks like a neutral gray to one person will look less neutral to another person. This is less of a problem with other display technologies because the color primaries spread over a wider frequency range (less “spikey”).

It’s likely we’ll see microLED in TVs first (larger pixels = easier to manufacture), and that’s not yet on the horizon currently. I wouldn’t expect microLEDs on iPads within the next five years or so.

 

[locrumo]

If Apple keeps OLED,Notch,No touchID i will save a lot of money.

 

[klasma]

I'm surprised there are a handful of people doubting this from the get go. I just bought a 2020 Macbook Air... and then Apple decided to release the M1 6-7 months later. I wouldn't put this type of release past Apple at this point.

Tons of people will probably buy the mini-LED version... and then tons of other people will buy the OLED version later in the year... 😂

It’s not implausible that Apple will go with miniLED for the Pros and with OLED for the non-Pros (or vice versa, or 11” vs 13”). That will be easier for them to handle in terms of manufacturing capacities, and they can test both technologies in the market that way.

 

[Neo999955]

It’n not implausible that Apple will go with miniLED for the Pros and with OLED for the non-Pros (or vice versa, or 11” vs 13”). That will be easier for them to handle in terms of manufacturing capacities, and they can test both technologies in the market that way.

That's fair, but seems like a surprising development. I see it more likely Pros go Mini and then in a few years the cheaper lines do right before the pro goes micro. I don't really see why they would bother putting OLED in a non-pro.

 

[manu chao]

No it didn’t retain same processor

Almost the same processor.

 

[Maven1975]

Ugh! My eyeballs hurt just reading this - More PWM without any help in sight - See what I did there? 😩😩

 

[T'hain Esh Kelch]

The original mini-LED rumor stated that it was only the 12,9" model that was getting the upgraded panel. With this rumor, one could speculate that the 11" model would get OLED.

Why? I don't know. But it is possible I guess.

 

[Serban55]

Also Samsung has been putting out OLED tablets for a couple of years now, and they don’t seem to have a lot of problems with burn-in.

Of course even samsung fixed the burn-in after iphone x was release. They copied apple approach to walk around the burn in.
Apple had implemented a feature that would "scramble" static pixels when it detected the user wasn't looking at the display to help prevent burn-in
Not to talk that until iphone x oled had never had 1 mil:1 contrast ratio after even a decade..so we need to thanks apple for that also

 

[Serban55]

I think I read somewhere that mini led is not as good as oled (doesn't achieve the blacks oled has).

Of course not since at oled display where is black is just pixels that doesnt goes on, stays dead. So black level is 0

 

[vegetassj4]

I'm waiting on a plasma iPad to upgrade to

 

[James Godfrey]

I think this teaches everyone, not to wait for what’s coming next as it may well take over a year...

plenty of people put off getting the iPad Pro in 2020 thinking a new one would come in late 2020, that never came, so then decided to wait until March 2021, now if this rumour is any way true they could potentially now be waiting until October 2021.

It holds true if you need it or want it now, get it now... don’t wait unless there are strong leaks of an imminent product launch.

 

[jimmy_uk]

I think this teaches everyone, not to wait for what’s coming next as it may well take over a year...

plenty of people put off getting the iPad Pro in 2020 thinking a new one would come in late 2020, that never came, so then decided to wait until March 2021, now if this rumour is any way true they could potentially now be waiting until October 2021.

It holds true if you need it or want it now, get it now... don’t wait unless there are strong leaks of an imminent product launch.

Agree, hard to do when you've been burned with some of the refresh cycles though.

 

[The Game 161]

Maybe mini led is too costly for iPad line so they will stick with MacBooks for mini led and have iPad pros with oled instead thats only thing I can think of

 

[goobot]

Sounds like a load of bs

 

[Abstract]

This rumour is obviously garbage, but I really hope Apple go with mini-LED and stick with it until micro-LED.

Forget OLED in an iPad. I want to keep mine for 5-6 years, if not longer.

 

[Homme]

I don’t buy this. Sorry