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Apple started using OLED screens in the iPhone X back in 2017, and before that, in the first Apple Watch. And the Touch Bar, of course (RIP). But it\u2019s been slow to move away from LCD elsewhere, like its iMacs, MacBooks, standalone displays, and iPads. I want OLED on all those things, but if the iPad Pro gets it first, as rumor has it, then that\u2019s fine by me.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
There\u2019s no product where the use of an LCD panel bothers me more than my 11-inch iPad Pro. It\u2019s got a nice-looking screen so long as I\u2019m looking directly at it. Go a little off-axis, though, and the screen gets way dimmer. That\u2019s true of my laptop, too, but I\u2019m always sitting directly in front of that screen, and almost always looking at a browser window with text in it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Contrast isn\u2019t an LCD\u2019s strong suit either, and the gray-black of the letterboxing and shadows when I\u2019m watching movies and shows bothers me more than it probably should. That doesn\u2019t matter if I\u2019m just reading, but if I\u2019m playing a game \u2014 especially something like Resident Evil Village<\/em>, which I\u2019m sure will run on the next iPad Pro \u2014 or watching a movie, the added deep blacks of OLED would look nicer. And in a dark horror game, it\u2019d be easier to spot things with the extra contrast. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n OLED would mean other things, like an always-on iPad screen. That could open up a version of iPhone\u2019s StandBy mode that turns the iPad into a true blue smart display (something that\u2019s been rumored before), actually unlocking a niche for the iPad that it really could use.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Assuming an OLED upgrade means more than just a nice screen for the next Pro model, I\u2019d sell my M1 iPad Pro in a heartbeat to buy it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n It sounds like I might have my wish soon. This morning, Bloomberg\u2019<\/em>s Mark Gurman reiterated in the subscriber Q&A section of Power On <\/em>something he\u2019s said in the past: that Apple has a new OLED iPad Pro coming next year. And in that last update, he called it the \u201cfirst major overhaul in half a decade,\u201d in the form of an 11-inch model and a 13-inch one, and I hope that\u2019s true because it needs it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Ming-Chi Kuo echoed that later in the day in a Medium post that Apple will mass-produce two OLED iPads using the same LTPO tech that gives both Apple Watches and newer iPhones their 1Hz to 120Hz variable refresh rate. Kuo added they\u2019ll outperform the Mini LED iPad Pro in \u201cdisplay performance and power consumption.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] Apple started using OLED screens in the iPhone X back in 2017, and before that, in the first Apple Watch. And the Touch Bar, of course (RIP). But it\u2019s been slow to move away from LCD elsewhere, like its iMacs, MacBooks, standalone displays, and iPads. I want OLED on all those things, but if …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}