The next iPad Pro models are rumored to adopt near bezel-less displays without any Home buttons, featuring Face ID biometric authentication with landscape support, a brand-new Magnetic Connector for third-party accessories, support for an updated Apple Pencil with seamless AirPods-like Bluetooth pairing and more.
That massive 6.5-inch OLED panel adorning a 256-gigabyte edition of the new iPhone XS Max amounts to nearly one-fifth of the phone's total bill of materials, according to estimates by TechInsights in their teardown of the handset.
The 6.5-inch custom-built OLED panel in Apple's new iPhone XS Max has earned the “Best Smartphone Display Award” with near perfect calibration and performance, according to display testing and calibration experts over at DisplayMate Technologies.
Apple's prematurely published (but now pulled) sitemap brought us all sorts of goodies this morning, including a tidbit which strongly indicates that Apple Watch Series 4 will indeed come in new 40mm and 44mm sizes. And now, an alleged front panel for the unreleased wearable device has leaked out, all but confirming the new Series 4 hardware sizes.
An extensive barrage of tests conducted by experts over at DisplayMate has shown that Samsung's recently unveiled Note 9 flagship smartphone rocks the best mobile display.
A tiny icon previously discovered in iOS 12 beta 5 has corroborated rumors that have been calling for a nearly bezel-free iPad with no Home button, and now a new discovery suggests this year's iPad Pro will almost certainly sport the same rounded corners as iPhone X.
Samsung Display last week announced a new type of OLED panel that the South Korean display maker says is virtually “unbreakable”. To illustrate the point, they released an interesting video showing a sheet of flexible OLED panel withstanding some heavy hammering.
The new panel is verified by Underwriters Laboratories, an official testing company for the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the United States Department of Labor.
Samsung may use it in Note 9, which will be announced on August 9.
The way this new flexible OLED panel has been realized is by leveraging an unbreakable substrate with a fortified plastic window securely adhered to it, as opposed to having a glass-covered window like you see on today's screens which often breaks when severely impacted.
Here's that reliability test video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_innzQWrAE
Underwriters Laboratories has found the new panel to pass durability tests based on US Department of Defense military standards. It withstood a waist-high 1.2-meter drop 26 times in succession, as well as temperature tests at 71 degrees and -32 degrees.
Even after a subsequent drop test administered at 1.8 meters (nearly 6 feet) above the ground—higher than the US military standard— it operated normally with no sign of damage.
On paper, it's better than Gorilla Glass 6—a major improvement over its predecessor, the new Corning glass can survive 15 drops from a height of 1 meter (3.2 feet) without shattering.
Samsung did not detail how scratchable its newly-launched plastic screen is.
In addition to smartphones, the new strengthened OLED panel should be used in other electronic products such as display consoles for automobiles, mobile military devices, portable game consoles and tablet PCs aimed at education.
Apple currently buys all its OLED panels for iPhone X from Samsung Display, but other suppliers are expected to jump in within a year or two. It's unclear if Apple plans on using this “unbreakable” screen given it's been using cover glass protection for iPhones from US-based Corning Glass, in which it invested $200 million in May 2017.
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Learn how to take advantage of Apple's True Tone technology that makes images on your Mac's Retina display and Touch Bar appear more natural.
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