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Apple to Use 'Best OLED Panels on the Market' for Upcoming iPad Pro
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Meh. My 13-year old iPad 2 is still running great. Fast and snappy and the (original!) battery still runs for many hours. Of course, it's running iOS 6.1.3...
Many people arguing for MacOs on an iPad probably have a laptop and simply want the flexibility to run both, especially on the 12.9 Pro … so it deserves “Pro”.
If they can’t improve battery life so that the 12.9” lasts 12-15 hours, the shift to OLED won’t get me to upgrade from my M1 12.9”.
People want a lot of different things that would compromise on Apple's core beliefs as an experiences company.
That’s being tech illiterate of the vast advantages OLED has in response time, contrast, and overall picture quality relevant for the core functions of an iPad and its accessories such as an Apple Pencil (lower latency due to the OLED screen for example).
Apple uses OLED screens from Samsung and this size is already available and in several competitor's devices.
Nothing. Lots of other notebooks have OLED screens already in all sizes, 13"-16". My girlfriend has a Asus Vivobook which costs 1/4th of a MacBook Pro and has a vastly superior 120Hz OLED screen. Apple is simply selling an inferior product because they can get away with it.
The screens will come from both LG and Samsung (with LG likely supplying the most), and there are exactly zero competitors in this space that are using the dual-stack screen tech that is rumoured to be in the new iPad Pro. Up until now, the expensive dual-stack screens have only been used in low volume niche applications.
AFAIK, no laptops use dual-stack OLED either.
However, it still remains to be seen if the rumours are actually true, that Apple will be strictly using dual-stack OLED for this purpose.
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Just amazing how many apple engineers comment on here these days on how to run a company.
Software and Ai with take all your business on the OLED screen you can bet on that!
Not a thing. Lasting years and years maybe not but will see in time what happens.
Think screen savers all over again. May not see it in a blink of an eye.
Milli-seconds.
Not a thing. Lasting years and years maybe not but will see in time what happens.
Think screen savers all over again. May not see it in a blink of an eye.
Milli-seconds.
Without Jonny Ive, I doubt it. The competition has surpassed apple, Google has a 12" pixel book, it is lighter and thinner than the current MacBook Air and it is using an Intel processor. It has about a 10h battery life but with a future Qualcomm processor it can beat apple silicon.
No, fading is not a statical event. The color shift is due to different color emitters fading at different rates. One benefit of dual later OLEDs is that they don’t have to drive each emitter as high to get a typical level of brightness. that cuts down on emitters fading. This is also why they are more resistant to burn-in.
When the emitters in an OLED panel are driven to high brightness levels, they have a tendency to fade over time and become less bright. that can cause the color to shift if the blue pixels fade faster. When larger areas of the screen are running bright for extended periods of time, those areas can appear as dimmer patches In the same of the graphic that was showing on the screen. The classic is a logo of a TV channel.
Your phone screen is only bright for relatively short periods and then it goes darker. They tend to shut down the screen brightness to save battery. People don’t tend to use their phones for hours on end with the same UI on the screen. That is more of the pattern for laptops and to a certain extend iPads.
These OLEDs are rumored to feature dual layers of OLED emitters (RGB pixels). With twice the emitters, each emitter only has be be driven half as hard to produce a similar brightness level. that makes them less prone to fading.
I think the iPad Airs are going to be your best bet in this new line. They are likely to retain the traditional IPS LCD screen.
“There is a possibility that the 11.1-inch iPad Pro will be in short supply at launch because Apple has been dealing with light leakage issues that are not impacting the 12.9-inch model.”
How is that possible? Are not OLED screen pixels lit up and dimmed individually? So, if there is no lighting from the side, like with LCD screens, what is the source of this leakage? 🤔
How is that possible? Are not OLED screen pixels lit up and dimmed individually? So, if there is no lighting from the side, like with LCD screens, what is the source of this leakage? 🤔
there are quite a few people who do professional work on an iPad. They are not necessarily doing development work but they are doing work. I’ve used an iPad Pro as a work computer while traveling. I haven’t seen any ads by Apple in years claiming that you can replace a computer with an iPad, but if they do put out such ads, I’m sure that the use cases are feasible for an iPad. You may not want to work on one, but that doesn’t mean that others don’t.
Burn in cannot be bend by hardware but walkaround by software with pixel shifting
They have to drive it otherwise whats the point for contrast level and accuracy feom dual layer?!
So no, physics cannot be bend , after 2 years of use a brand new dual layer will always have perfect blue compared to the used one side by side
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Maybe the 11 ipad pro is not using oled or maybe its about the smaller ipad air in reality or this is just a rumor
That's not necessarily accurate as far as tablets as Apple forces Samsung to not skip on capabilities they skip on the manufacturing of the "same" OLED panels for competitors such as Dolby Vision HDR + HLG support.
Just like their phones.
There's more to the size and panel type of a panel; there is HDR capabilities and meeting a particular standard of other capabilities that leads to many defects or incompatible panels for the final target product are just as important