The iPad mini is also on the OLED screen. Will you buy it this time?

At the beginning of this month, Apple officially held an Apple special event, bringing new products of the iPad series, and officially released the new iPad Air and the new iPad Pro.

Now, as time goes on, more information about iPad series products has appeared.

It is reported that a report from IT Home shows that:

Apple seems to be planning to gradually switch all iPad products to OLED display, and the M4 iPad Pro just released is the first trial product.

Samsung Display is accelerating the expansion of its IT OLED business. Recently, it has begun to develop the corresponding OLED panel for the iPad mini. However, the development project is at an early stage, and the industry expects its mass production target date to be 2025.

Samsung Display started developing 8-inch OLED samples for iPad mini at Apple's request last month. After the initial samples are developed in the first half of the year, we will be able to enter the mass production development stage within the year.

It is reported that the iPad Pro is equipped with a double-layer serial OLED display screen, which has two light-emitting layers, which can extend the service life of the screen.

However, for cost control and other reasons, the subsequent iPad mini and iPad Air may not adopt this technology, but are equipped with a single-layer OLED panel, and may not support ProMotion.

In fact, Apple's OLED screen adaptation plan was mentioned in the previous disclosure, that is, Apple plans to apply OLED display technology to nine new devices by 2027.

Among them, after introducing OLED display on iPad Pro, Apple plans to apply this technology to iPad mini and iPad Air in 2026.

The new generation iPad Air may retain a 10.9-inch display screen, and the screen size of the iPad mini will increase from 8.3 inches to 8.7 inches. In 2027, Apple is expected to apply OLED display technology to a 12.9-inch iPad Air model.

At the same time, the news also mentioned that Apple is expected to upgrade the OLED panel of the iPad Pro in 2027, which is expected to reduce the power consumption by about 20%, and enable Apple to realize the technology of offline camera on the iPad for the first time.

In a word, the time information mentioned in the two disclosures is roughly similar, and both mentioned that the iPad mini and iPad Air equipment will be equipped with OLED panels.

Based on this, it can be basically determined that Apple will apply OLED screens for a wider range of iPad product lines in the future, but whether the high refresh rate will be applied to the whole line is still uncertain.

However, even if Apple will apply OLED screens for the iPad mini series, it seems that the new products of this series coming this year cannot be carried for the time being in terms of research and development progress, and more upgrades focus on performance.

Referring to the previously exposed list of unpublished Apple device chip identifiers, it shows two devices equipped with A17 series chips, which may be the highly anticipated iPad mini. The two models will be the seventh generation iPad mini that supports Wi Fi and Wi Fi+cellular network configurations.

According to the disclosure, it may be equipped with A17 Pro chip or a different version of A17 chip.

By contrast, the iPad mini devices currently on sale are equipped with A15 bionic chips, while the previous disclosure mentioned that A16 chips are expected to be equipped in the next generation upgrade.

Therefore, if the chip information displayed in the explosion is accurate, the actual performance upgrade is also of concern.

As for the specific launch time of new products, the seventh generation iPad mini may not be launched until the end of this year. In other words, this new product will not be seen at the Apple World Developers Conference (WWDC) next month, and interested users need to wait for a while.