News on December 17th: Apple released the iPad Air4 this year. It adopts a new design style and introduces a full-screen design. However, unlike the high-end iPad Pro, it uses a power fingerprint unlocking method and a 60Hz refresh rate screen, which also allows Apple's iPad product line has become clearer.
In fact, many users' expectation for the iPad is when to add more advanced screens, such as the OLED screen that has been used on the iPhone for many years. Recently, the Korean media finally got news in this regard. According to news from the Korea Electronic Daily, Apple has placed orders with Samsung and LG to use OLED screens for iPad series products, which will be available in 2022 at the earliest.
Unlike ordinary rigid OLED screens, Apple intends to use thinner hybrid OLED panels on the iPad. This hybrid OLED panel will fully combine the characteristics of rigid OLED and flexible OLED. The price is 3 times more expensive than rigid OLED, but it can bear more Great impact. At the same time, the hybrid OLED panel may be applied with TFE (thin film encapsulation) technology.
In general, thin film packaging technology combined with flexible OLED will reduce the overall thickness without affecting its rigidity. Samsung calls it an ultra-thin panel, and LG calls it an advanced OELD.
Since 2015, Apple has gradually replaced LCD screens with OLEDs in its own products. By 2020, all models of the iPhone 12 series will use OLED screens. It can be seen that the general trend in the future is still OLED. However, Korean media reported that in 2021, Apple will use mini-LED on the iPad as a transition.
