How would an OLED screen be an improvement over an ipad 8th generation? I'm debating on what to upgrade to but I mainly use my ipad for reading comics nowadays. Movies/TV are for the big screen.

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iSnow 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They have better blacks and no light bleed. The colors are more vivid and spectral too. That's cool for watching movies in the dark

However, whether you really notice a difference reading on the thing I kinda doubt.

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orloffm 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's not. OLED screens use PWM, i.e. they are switching to almost black 256 times a second. That's tiresome for the eyes. Especially when you read from it with artificial lighting which is dim, that makes those black periods long and noticeable. Yes, recent iPhones sometimes don't go full black, but that's only for near-100% brightness.

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kccqzy 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

And furthermore Apple’s OLED screens tend to have more color reproduction issues. I don’t have an iPad any more but gather a group of people using OLED iPhones. Use light mode and open the Settings app at the same time. You will see that different OLED screens render the same white menu items differently. Some will have a yellowish tint, others an unpleasant green tint. This happens regardless of whether one turns on or off TrueTone. This has been going on since the very first OLED iPhones. The old LCD iPhones never had this problem. It is highly subjective but it bothers me way more than a 60Hz refresh rate.

In general display technologies are highly subjective. Besides LCD versus OLED, there are people who love nano texture and there are people who hate them. There are people who absolutely need 120Hz and there are people who can’t tell the difference between 60Hz and 120Hz. It’s a shame that we can’t customize the display technology exactly as we want.

	▲	fmajid 27 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Nano texture was the entire reason I upgraded to an iPad Pro M4. The camera on the long edge is a major regression as far as I am concerned, however. The only drawback is fingerprints are harder to remove,you really need that special microfiber cloth or one of the cheap Chinese clones.
	▲	RASBR89 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		LCD iPhones defo had this. I thought it was to do with panel supplier

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blfr 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I own no iPads but all my screens are OLED and I would never buy anything else. The true black is an absolute killer feature. It makes the device just a glowing wonder at night, magical feeling, no way to overstate it.

OLED + dark mode after sundown are awesome. On Android we also get the extra dim mode which makes it perfect for lights-out.

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nogridbag 3 hours ago | parent [-]

For nighttime viewing with my Pixel 8 Pro (OLED), I wish I could make the screen even dimmer at night. The extra dim mode barely does anything.

	▲	tosser811 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I use GrapheneOS on my Pixel and it gets very dim. Also, I have the night mode (orange tint) cranked way up - something that the stock OS should allow you to do.