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Report: Apple to Release 5th-Gen iPad Air With OLED Display Next Year

Vol Braakzakje said:
Interesting. I think it is really important to think about how you use the iPad. OLED is probably better if you do a lot of movie watching at night in bed.
Mini LED is better if you use your iPad primarily at day time, as the higher brightness will be much more useful than the darkness of oled.

Gives people a choice, which is good imho. I’d still go for the mini led because I need the iPad in bright light.
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The trouble is for watching video on it I want the larger screen, and they don’t give you the choice of a large screen OLED.
 
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Like people already said, OLED and mini LED are both good techs; I guess its a question of likes or choice now, but for me mini LED rocks for HDR movie watching by far !
 
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I think they’re ultimately going to go from LED to MiniLED to MicroLED for all iPads. Really don’t see OLED happening or think that would make sense. I could be wrong, but I’d be baffled if they released an OLED iPad — especially after debuting a MiniLED model.
 
collin_ said:
I think they’re ultimately going to go from LED to MiniLED to MicroLED for all iPads. Really don’t see OLED happening or think that would make sense. I could be wrong, but I’d be baffled if they released an OLED iPad — especially after debuting a MiniLED model.
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MicroLED is basically vapourware for the foreseeable future.

I’d be surprised if Apple DIDN’T go OLED with the Air next year.
 
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Vol Braakzakje said:
Interesting. I think it is really important to think about how you use the iPad. OLED is probably better if you do a lot of movie watching at night in bed.
Mini LED is better if you use your iPad primarily at day time, as the higher brightness will be much more useful than the darkness of oled.

Gives people a choice, which is good imho. I’d still go for the mini led because I need the iPad in bright light.
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Have you ever said your iPhone with oled display is dim? I haven’t.
oled is the superior display. Mini led is still an lcd panel. it can’t get to the same depth/contrast as a million plus individual light source display can get.
The only thing that can top oled is micro led and that could be another 3-5 years off.
120 hz refresh oled panel would be much better than a mini led panel by far. Now how apple plays off oled to mini led I’m not sure. I think they might change all to oled and mini led was a small transition into micro led after the oled phase.
 
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Shirasaki said:
Well, some YouTubers would argue iPad Air screen is better than higher end iPad Pro now. :rolleyes:
Apple seems to agree that burn in is terrible.
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As an Air 4 user, I can argue with any and all of those YouTubers. The current Air 4 panels are dark grey at best, if you are lucky enough not to have any light bleed. I have compared my iPad Air 2 vs Air 4 side by side with the same settings and Air 2 blacks and whites both look much better, whereas Air 4 whites are more yellow and blacks are somewhat “warm” = washed out. A reasonably good OLED panel should take care of both of these issues.
 
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alpi123 said:
Depends on the use. Both can be good or bad.

miniLED is brighter but has blooming, and in the end, it's still an LCD panel. The contrast ratio is standard unless viewing HDR content.

OLED has true blacks, a 1:infinity contrast ratio, and no blooming, but can suffer from burn in and PWM (some people are sensitive to it).
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A burn in on modern OLEDs is really rare, unless you literally spend hours with a static screen. 🤷🏻‍♂️
 
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I seriously doubt that they will release it next year. It will probably be release the year after that. This year, another Pro was released. Next year will be the iPad Mini. And then then the iPad Air.
 
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Air 4 whites are more yellow and blacks are somewhat “warm” = washed out. A reasonably good OLED panel should take care of both of these issues.
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I wouldn't count on it. I have an iPhone 7, X, and 12 mini. The 12 mini's OLED is far warmer than the 7 and the X, which both are surprisingly similar in color temperature. I think Apple's deliberately calibrating their newer displays to appear warmer for some reason. It looks very unnatural, especially layered on top of True Tone (and Night Shift at night).
 
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Vol Braakzakje said:
Interesting. I think it is really important to think about how you use the iPad. OLED is probably better if you do a lot of movie watching at night in bed.
Mini LED is better if you use your iPad primarily at day time, as the higher brightness will be much more useful than the darkness of oled.

Gives people a choice, which is good imho. I’d still go for the mini led because I need the iPad in bright light.
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I think that's exactly it. OLED is a great choice for most "consumer" uses, and mini-LED for "professional" workflows like photo and video editing.

So if the rumor is true that the iPad Air will get OLED (despite the high-end Pro having mini-LED), then this would be a plausible explanation. It also explains why iPhones have OLED.
 
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Lukomaldini said:
Interesting choice! I think I may prefer mini led to OLED tbh, my brother has an OLED tv and he always worries about burn in to the extent he won’t really watch sports or news channels because of the static content, hes probably over panicking but he doesn’t want to risk it. Me on the other hand with the mini led I don’t have to worry about that, plus HDR looks amazing on the iPad whereas oled can struggle to reach the same brightness. OLED does have inkier blacks but I think the difference is fairly negligible, blooming is there but not in 99% of use cases.

what I think future generation of iPad Pro’s will have is more dimming zones i.e. Currently there are 4 mini leds to a dimming zone, ideally they could go down to 1 led is it’s own dimming zone, bringing it even closer to oled with less blooming etc

just my 2 cents
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I bought an log b8 2 years go and bought a 65” cx last year and ever even think about burn in tbh. I watch all type of content and never had an issue. Who watches only the 24 hour news program for days at a time anyways? Plus best buys warranty covers burn in and is only a few hundred dollars. Plus the image quality is simply amazing, I think people who rag on Oled have no idea what they are talking about. How may oled iPhones have burn in? None I’ve heard of.
 
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Mr. Dee said:
2023 can’t come soon enough. I might even need to upgrade sooner from my 2017 12.9 iPad Pro since it’s starting to show early signs of stage light at the bottom edge.
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My two-months old Air 4 is showing some “stage light” since day 1, but my Air 2’s screen is as good as new. 🤷🏻‍♂️
 
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xpxp2002 said:
I wouldn't count on it. I have an iPhone 7, X, and 12 mini. The 12 mini's OLED is far warmer than the 7 and the X, which both are surprisingly similar in color temperature. I think Apple's deliberately calibrating their newer displays to appear warmer for some reason. It looks very unnatural, especially layered on top of True Tone (and Night Shift at night).
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Try turning off TrueTone of your 12 mini - you will get much cooler whites. 🖐
 
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Try turning off TrueTone of your 12 mini - you will get much cooler whites. 🖐
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I did. It's somewhat better, but when I hold it side-by-side with the iPhone X it still looks worse. The iPhone X with True Tone on actually still looks cooler than the 12 mini with True Tone off. :(
 
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As an Air 4 user, I can argue with any and all of those YouTubers. The current Air 4 panels are dark grey at best, if you are lucky enough not to have any light bleed. I have compared my iPad Air 2 vs Air 4 side by side with the same settings and Air 2 blacks and whites both look much better, whereas Air 4 whites are more yellow and blacks are somewhat “warm” = washed out. A reasonably good OLED panel should take care of both of these issues.
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I believe Apple is counting on micro-LED more than ever, and mini-LED is just a stop gap for the most part. Also, OLED apparently cant reach high brightness easily, which means not very good for HDR contents. As for burn-in, iOS home bar would be that prime target for burn-in as it is mostly staying there the entire time as soon as your device is on. I rarely use my iPhone nowadays (iPad is amazing) so I haven’t seen any sort of burn-in just yet.
 
xpxp2002 said:
Agreed. I’ve been holding off on upgrading my iPad Pro 10.5, but I’ll make sure to get the last one with mini LED so I don’t have to suffer with the PWM on the iPad too.

The PWM on the iPhone X was tolerable, but on the 12 mini has been a lot worse. I miss iPhones with IPS LCDs so much. 😢
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What’s worse, there will be thousands of deniers saying PWM causing eye strain is fake.
I use iPad predominantly now, so I think I’m fine for the most part. I seriously doubt apple will properly address this issue though.
 
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