For its Apple Watch Series 10, Apple is reportedly banking on new OLED screen technology. However, there is no need to expect a visual evolution: this essentially technical change would rather offer better energy efficiency, and therefore increased autonomy.
If it takes care to correct the craziest bugs in its current Watch Series 9, Apple is not losing sight of the development of its future exciting connected device. Expected at the start of the 2024 school year alongside the iPhone 16, the Apple Watch Series 10 would benefit from new OLED screen technology intended to boost its autonomy.
Towards greater autonomy?
As reported The Elec, Apple would indeed adopt a new LTPO TFT OLED panel for its new Apple Watch. Behind this somewhat complex name is an OLED screen combining LTPO (low-temperature polycrystalline oxide) and TFT (Thin-film transistor) technologies to improve energy efficiency without reducing display quality.
In detail, we nevertheless learn that the LTPS technology previously used on the Apple Watch would still be used, but marginally, only on the non-visible parts of the screen.
A technology also expected on the iPhone 16 Pro
This new technology would not, however, be exclusive to the Apple Watch Series 10. According to Apple Insider, Apple would also extend it to its future iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max. Subsequently, these LTPO TFT OLED screens would even be adopted on all iPhone 17s, expected next year, always with the objective of improving energy efficiency… and by extension, the autonomy of the equipped devices.
Finally, note that this information has a good chance of being correct, because if The Elec is sometimes wrong in its predictions relating to future Apple products, the media is rarely wrong when it comes to the integration of new technologies into them. In this area, his careful observation of supply chains often allows him to hit the mark.
Source : Apple Insider
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