We have been talking for several months about the screen that Apple plans to implement in the next generation of iPad Pro, a display with Mini-LED technology, a screen that could only be used in the iPad Pro that Apple would have planned to launch in the first half of 2021. But, it would not be the only model.
The Elect states that following the launch in the first half of 2021 of an iPad Pro with Mini-LED display, in the second half of the year will launch a new iPad Pro model with OLED screen, being Samsung and LG responsible for the manufacture of these panels.
Mini-LED display would initially be available 12,9-inch model only that Apple would have planned to launch on the market to replace the model it launched a few months ago, so LCD screens would continue to be available in the rest of the models.
By the second half of 2021, Apple would also launch the 12,9-inch iPad Pro with an OLED screen. If we consider that both Mini-LED screens and OLED screens share many benefits over traditional LCD panels such as a higher contrast ratio, higher brightness and better energy efficiency, this news does not make sense.
I highly doubt that Apple will launch a 12,9-inch iPad Pro with Mini-LED screen and a few months later it will launch the same 12,9-inch iPad Pro with OLED screen, since the only thing it would do in confuse users that they intend to acquire an iPad Pro in addition to the discomfort that it would cause among those users who acquire the Mini-LED model when the OLED model was launched shortly after.
Ming-Chi Kuo, one of the analysts with the highest hit rate regarding the rumor mill surrounding Apple, has stated on several occasions that by 2021, the 12,9-inch iPad Pro screen will be Mini-LED, without mentioning in any At the moment the possibility that Apple implements OLED screens and much less that it launches two practically equal iPad Pro in just 6 months.
Without finally the idea of Apple going to use OLED screens, it is most likely that it will only launch a model with this type of screen, a single model in 2021, a model that would continue to use an LCD screen and that by 2022 made the leap to OLED technology.