iPadOS 17.5 hints at OLED iPad Pros, new Apple Pencil with squeeze function

10 April 2024
Apple will likely announce new OLED iPad Pros, a new iPad AIr, and Apple Pencil 3 in May.

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  • 11 Apr 2024

What are they doing to combat the flickering of OLEDs?

    Sam888, 10 Apr 2024Will there be iPad Mini ??? New iPad Mini was supposed to be released at the end of last year, but was pushed back for March 2024. Well it missed it. It looks like it may "possibly" come in late May. Also it looks like Apple has now downgraded the iPad Mini. It was supposed to come with a recycled M1 Chipset (great) but new rumours suggest it's going to come with a much slower and cheaper chipset (overclocked A16). The screen fix is a given, and slightly larger size still seems like it's happening. But display upgrades seem to be pipedream. So no 120Hz, no OLED, and no +1000 nit brightness, or other notable upgrades.

    It's a shame.
    The leaked iPad Mini 7 was almost great, not bad or even meh. But the new rumours show a very meh device at a higher cost, making it an almost bad purchase. It might be a smarter idea to buy the first-gen iPad Pro (M1) from the Used Market instead. I really really do prefer the size and portability of the Mini, but can't stand for getting ripped off. So yah.

      Darth Caesium, 10 Apr 2024That 27" 5120×2880 studio display deserves to have QD-... more2k nits is overrated, 1k nits is more than enough and 90% of hdr content is graded for 1k nits and lower. Most newer HDR content is just SDR content in an HDR container. I think better full field/50% brightness is more important for HDR impact, especially in high APL scenes like during the daytime.

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        • 10 Apr 2024

        Will there be iPad Mini ???

          jiyen235, 10 Apr 2024>be apple >make a revolutionary Mini-LED display for... moreThat 27" 5120×2880 studio display deserves to have QD-OLED. Give me that and 2000nits peak brightness (as opposed to 1600nits on the MiniLED), thinner bezels, LTPO, 120Hz refresh rate and good response times, and I'd get that in a heartbeat bo matter the price. I don't even use Apple products, but this would go so well with my PC setup. Especially now that Linux has HDR support, colour profile management, explicit sync, and excellent fractional scaling, there shouldn't be any major teething issues on this. Sure, I'd probably need to get a Thunderbolt-to-DisplayPort adapter, but that's the only real hurdle.

          Unfortunately, what would be a problem with the hardware side of things is that the PenTile subpixel layout would destroy pixel clarity to be much worse than the old display's perfect one, and there would likely be PWM dimming with no option to use DC dimming.

            Squeeze function?
            More like bent detection.

              >be apple
              >make a revolutionary Mini-LED display for iPads with 2596 zones on a 12.9 inch screen
              >ditch them for OLEDs soon after

              >Also Apple
              >Charge 5k USD for a 5k display that has 576 zones on a 27 inch display
              >???
              >profit

              Seriously, I believe their iPads' display cost more than the Studio display. And some people actually bought that thing like bruh just get an iPad and have fun

                No way! Only took them a decade.

                Can't wait to see OLEDs on imacs though

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