This is what people say every single year and yet it keeps improving and getting better, every year. LMAO!
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Next Major Apple Watch Ultra Upgrade Rumored to Be MicroLED Display Technology
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Could someone explain why this is better than OLED? I know that OLED can be a battery drain with current versions, but OLED is getting better as well.
It seems like we hear rumors of OLED coming to Apple iPad displays, but now it seems MicroLED is the next wave? Confused
It seems like we hear rumors of OLED coming to Apple iPad displays, but now it seems MicroLED is the next wave? Confused
Always the next versions will have MicroLED, I await the MicroLED cleaning cloth.
And still barely one day battery life. Honestly, I’m tired of the “next upgrade”. I buy food like clockwork because I need it. I don’t want gadgets to become same for me.
Don’t let the haters hate, if you’re happy then who cares!
I believe this is better because of burn-in in OLED, but honestly if there's a single product that should suffer from burn-in, it's the Apple Watch, and it doesn't. I'm also confused...
Apple has an amazing product with 36 hour battery life called the Apple Watch Ultra, and they think you're gonna love it.
Seriously though, clearly Apple has achieved what they consider to be their targets for battery life. It's been this way the last several generations. I don't see them changing that until new battery tech becomes available.
The Apple Watch Ultra is just not for me. (I’ve worn one and it was too encumbering for me — but I loved the larger screen and I can certainly see outdoorsmen and mountain climbers, et al. loving it.)
But you point out that the Ultra has 36 hours of battery life.
The non-Ultra new Series 9 Apple Watches have, at 18 hours, half the battery life of the Ultra.
I highly doubt Apple has found the “sweet spot” for battery life on the regular Apple Watch because short battery life is the number one complaint I hear and read about the “iWatch.”
Like I said, 24 hours completes one full day of sleep/wake activity monitoring.
Couldn’t they have given it even one minute more battery life than the 8?
Point is, I would’ve traded in every new (and upcoming) capability of the new Series 9 and readily bought a new one that only had substantially longer battery life.
(A dead battery equals zero features and capabilities.)
Because of this — and speaking only for myself — I‘ll be sticking with my 8 and won’t be buying a series 9.
(P.S. The Apple Watch used to be thicker and I didn’t hear any complaints. Battery tech has advanced since then, so a slightly thicker Series 9 would’ve afforded longer battery life.)
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OLED is still better. No blooming and infinite contrast. I don't see Apple downgrading on it's flagship.
OLED has burn-in which can NOT be fixed or improved. Max brightness is also a problem as well.
OLED has perfect blacks and, yes, higher contrast, but far lower brightness.
And despite what you read from reviewers who spend a short amount of time reviewing OLED TVs and other devices, OLED still has screen burn-in issues.
And as far as the O in OLED, the organic materials do degrade over time. (I’ve seen used OLED displays where ALL the organic material has left pixels the whole screen over and these dead pixels don’t illuminate at all. Color is all screwed up. It makes the skin and the colors on The Simpsons look normal.)
Not so with micro LED.
Like OLED, micro LED offers self-illuminating pixels for each individual pixel, which can each be turned off, yielding perfect blacks. And perfectly isolated as well, so zero blooming. And much brighter.
The only place I can see micro LED improving after this, is, perhaps, separate lighting of each R, G and B sub-pixel.
(And that would only be appreciable to the eye on a GIGANTIC screen.)
OLED will be obsolete and micro LED will replace it. (But it can’t be soon enough.)
btw, manufacturers have tried displays that added a Y sub-pixel for yellow to RGB or a W for pure white, but after this brief experiment, they’ve all been discontinued and returned to RGB.
No one has yet improved upon Red, Green and Blue sub-pixels in color quality and picture quality.
(But I’m certainly open to it.)
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Apple Watch feature requests:
• No iPhone dependency. Ideally, standalone, although it could have Mac dependency.
• 12 MP camera to read QR-codes and more.
• Safari as standard visible application (not hidden as now is).
• No iPhone dependency. Ideally, standalone, although it could have Mac dependency.
• 12 MP camera to read QR-codes and more.
• Safari as standard visible application (not hidden as now is).
Don't think the watch really needs it. But it is an important step to bring this technology forward and it is easier to bring it to a smaller device with also lower sales volume. It does have the potential to be at least as good as OLED, but without its drawbacks.
On a device like the “iWatch” (OK, OK, it’s Apple Watch — distinctive Brand, I know…distinct and original…just like…iPod…) screen size is critically important.
I’d upgrade from my Series 8 to a 9 for a larger display.
Or significantly longer battery life (alone).
Either/or — or both.
This entire article hinges on the subjective definition of ‘major upgrade’ and adds nothing we haven’t heard before, recently, and from equally reliable sources. </grump>