Not seeing a compelling reason to move up from my series 4 yet. I think I''ll be okay with hanging on another year to see what the 7 brings.
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Leaker Suggests MicroLED Apple Watch Not Coming This Year
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Hopefully we can stop writing about baseless MicroLED rumours on iPhone for the next 2-3 years. At the rate things are going there wont even be a MicroLED Apple Watch in 2022. Which puts MicroLED iPhone at least 2025 at the earliest.
I mean there is another 2 - 3 year to go on leading edge OLED before they are running out of things for serious improvement. Lower Energy usage, thinner display, longer lifespan are on the Samsung OLED roadmap.
As a matter of fact I am wondering if MicroLED would even make sense at all as OLED continues to mature.
I mean there is another 2 - 3 year to go on leading edge OLED before they are running out of things for serious improvement. Lower Energy usage, thinner display, longer lifespan are on the Samsung OLED roadmap.
As a matter of fact I am wondering if MicroLED would even make sense at all as OLED continues to mature.
My Series 4 lasts nearly 48 hours all the time and it's a day 1 purchase.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see multiple features upgrades relegated to later years. While I’m sure we’ll see a new iteration of products with some improvements, the state of global trade and limitations on working conditions will surely decrease the number of new features we see, in Apple’s or any other products.
Why are people so obsessed with sleep tracking? If I’m tired all day I didn’t sleep enough. If I’m not tired I slept enough. I’m more interested in making the watch as thin as a normal watch, more watch face customizations, faster system updates, faster music/podcast sync, brighter display, on-device Siri, etc.
Apple Watch is so far head of the comp that they don’t need to do much to it each year. Better battery life is all i want.
some explanation of the MicroLED tech in the original article would be useful. How is it different from LED and what would be the advantages of using it?
I'm waiting for the bezel to vanish, or virtually vanish.
Hoping MicroLED would mean something like a 1mm area around and the pixels actually waterfall off all the sides.
Not that we want content around a curve, but with images on the screen or just aspects of the UI, it would be lovely to see.
Hoping MicroLED would mean something like a 1mm area around and the pixels actually waterfall off all the sides.
Not that we want content around a curve, but with images on the screen or just aspects of the UI, it would be lovely to see.
Here's the quick and dirty.
Similar technology:
- LED - Backlighting tech used in conjunction with LCD. LED does not produce an image.
- MiniLED - Backlighting tech used in conjunction with LCD. MiniLED has many more smaller pixels than LED and is associated with Full Array Local Diming. Can produce better contrast, more accurate colors, deeper blacks. MiniLED does not produce an image.
- OLED - Image producing screen tech. Each pixel is self emssive and can be turned off or on, thus giving almost infinite contrast and true blacks from pixels being off. the "O" in OLED stands for organic. The Achilles heel of OLED is the RGB pixels don't age at the same rate. The blue ages quicker.
- MicroLED - Image producing screen tech. Similar to OLED in that each pixel is self emissive so achieves the same benefits. Pixels are inorganic (GaN primarily) and don't suffer from the downsides of OLED.
One week: MicroLED this year! Official leaks!
next week: actually no. No it’s not.
the next next week: coming next year. Official leaks!
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Leaker discloses that a nuclear fusion powered iPhone isn't coming this year either
Sleep tracking can possibly alert to underlying health concerns or problems, not to mention being a good way to provide a journal to your doctor.
That's a lie.
I have a series 5 so no it’s not a lie
Was the same on two Nike watches and my current SS model
So yeah don’t say somebody is lying when they have the device
With 58% left currently with no workouts
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Because more data allows you to figure all sorts of fun things out. How does drinking coffee impact my sleep? How about drinking lots of water? Even though I got 8 hours of sleep, did I get less REM sleep? What caused that? Oh hey it seems I sleep better every Saturday than I do Tuesday... I usually drink Tuesday after work, maybe thats it?
Those sorts of things can all be deciphered with sleep data, and it makes a big difference. I am sleeping much better than I used to since I really started regressing my fitbit data and habits.
I wouldn’t compare LED, you should be comparing OLED, which is what Apple utilizes for Watch displays. But here are a few major differentiations with micro LED.
- Wider color gamut
- Significantly brighter over OLED
- Uses less power draw, as it’s more efficient, resulting in extended battery light.
- Also, it’s reported that it will significantly reduce any type of ‘image retention’ versus OLED ‘burn-in’.
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Thanks! That's the kind of info I would have wanted to see in the article itself. Items 2 and 3 would be important in my view. Not so much for item 1 - I doubt there would be much (if any) noticeable difference. Regarding item 4, has burn-in been an issue for Apple Watches?
My S4 LTE runs fine and doesn't really need to be upgraded....waiting for a facetime camera or multi-day LTE battery life to sell me on a new one. I do like the new titanium finishes though
There are very few cases of image retention for the Apple Watch. I’ve maybe come across maybe two cases in the Apple Watch forum over the last three years where somebody experienced image retention. With the display primarily being in the off position, it’s not much of an issue. Stagnant displays indicating the same information is problematic for OLED over the course of extended usage with the display on.