If you’re looking for the iPad Air to feature OLED, you’ll have to be patient and wait a long time. Here, we tell you what we know as of mid-2024
Those from Cupertino are clear, They want to move to an OLED screen on the entire iPad range After releasing this screen quality in the latest iPad Pro, according to recent information from The Elec, Apple is offering it. include lower “spec” OLED for iPad Air and on the iPad mini. Specifically, this improvement would be obvious to improve sales of the intermediate iPad model. It’s all based on the fact that historical sales of the Air model were better than the Pro model when they still had the LCD panel.
The next step for OLED is the iPad Air
It’s something natural at Apple. OLED arrived on the Apple Watch and then on the iPhonebetween the iPhone Pro, they moved on to the regular iPhone, then to the iPad Pro and naturally it will reach the iPad Air. At the beginning of March, we told you about a report prepared by the Omdia firm which assures that Apple will bring OLED to other iPad models and the next one will be the iPad Air. Concretely, the OLED of the iPad Air will have a single battery to give maximum importance to the iPad Pro with a tandem of two batteries.
The difference between the tandem structures lies in the electroluminescent layers and reduced power consumption.. Examples of single-battery OLEDs can be found in the latest OLED-equipped iPhones, although the technology will surely continue to advance and the one included in the iPad Air could change at the last minute.
When will the iPad Air with OLED be released?
At the earliest, this will happen in 2026.. Let us remember that iPad Air hasn’t been updated since 2022. Two years later it was updated with a new M2 chip and that will probably be sometime in 2026. get a new chip and specs that come close to but don’t surpass an iPad Pro.
Taiwanese media outlet ET News was clear in late 2023 that Apple would bring OLED to a number of products, including this year’s iPad Pro and then the iPad Air.
On the other hand, The iPad that could be updated in 2024 would be the iPad mini which could include an A17 chip. Recall that the current one has an A15 Bionic chip. On your screen, there would be no major changes. We are sure that the OLED of the smallest iPad will not arrive before the iPad Air.
As Apple has already accustomed us this year, it is likely that those from Cupertino will jointly launch an iPad Pro and an iPad Air for this year 2026. It would be like a stellar presentation as is the case with the iPhone but with a lower launch frequency. If you are looking for the iPad Air with OLED, you will have to wait and be patient for a long time if we take into account that it takes an average of 2 years to launch a new iPad. In addition to OLED, What other features would you like to see in the next iPad Air? It will be interesting to see what chip Apple plans to put in one of the most powerful tablets on the market.
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