iPad 3 could get OLED screen
The iPad 2 went on sale in mid-March, which means that the Apple device has been on shelves for just over two months, which is ages in Apple Gossip Time (AGT). Clearly, it was only a matter of days before iPad 3 rumors began spinning through the blogosphere.
Here's one of the first: The iPad 3, or whatever Apple decides to call the next iteration of its top-selling tablet, will feature an organic light-emitting diode screen. (.)
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The scuttlebutt comes courtesy of a reporter at the tech site OLED-Info.com (of course), who says Apple exec Tim Cook recently visited South Korea, and chatted with Samsung reps about using that company's AMOLED displays on the iPad 3. "[T]he iPad 3 will launch towards the end of 2011 (by then Samsung's Gen-5.5 plant will have a 48,000 monthly substrate capacity), and Apple offered an advance payment for the displays," OLED-Info.com says.
End of 2011? Well, that sounds awful early to us. Plus, Samsung has vehemently denied the rumor. As Charlie White notes over at Mashable, Samsung AMOLED could be a pretty good choice for Apple.
"An OLED iPad could be thinner and lighter, with blacker blacks, more vivid colors, faster response time and wider viewing angles," he . "If Samsung can overcome the disadvantages of OLEDs, such as higher power consumption with light-colored images (such as web pages) and somewhat limited lifespan (although that鈥檚 been drastically improved recently), an OLED-packing iPad could be on the way sooner than anyone thought."
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