OLED technology enables the world's best displays, and as OLEDs can be made flexible, light, thin and highly efficient, these displays are taking over many markets such as smartphones, TVs, VR and wearables. Another field where OLED displays are being adopted is the tablet market.
AMOLED displays traditionally found it more difficult to penetrate the tablet market as larger displays are more expensive to produce. But this is changing as OLED displays production costs are coming down. Samsung is leading the OLED tablet market, and its high-end Galaxy Tab tablet models are already using OLED displays. For more information and our news coverage on OLED tablets, click here.
Following is a list of tablets with OLED displays:
Samsung's Tab S7 Plus sports a 12.4" 1752x2800 (266 PPI) 120hz HDR10+ Super AMOLED display. Other features include a Snapdragon 865+ chipset, 6/8 GB of RAM, 128/256 GB of storage and a dual camera setup.
The Tab S7 Plus is now shipping starting at around $900.
Lenovo's Pad Pro tablet features a 11.5-inch 90Hz HDR10 1600x2560 AMOLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 chipset, 6 GB of RAM, 128 GB of storage and a microSDXC slot.
The Pad Pro will ship by June 2021 for around $400.
Huawei's second-generation foldable smartphone, the Mate X2, features an inside-folding AMOLED display, a 8-inch 90Hz 2480 x 2200 one. There is also an external 6.45-inch 1160 x 2700 90Hz (240Hz touch sampling rate) AMOLED display.
Huawei says that the foldable screens adopts a "magnetically-controlled nano optical layer" to reduce reflection and glare (the company says reflectivity is <1.5%, compared to >5% in the Galaxy Fold 2). The cover is plastic (and not UTG like in Samsung's latest displays). Huawei also developed a new hinge design and materials that enable the phone to be closed without a gap, while the OLED itself is not completely folded to minimize creasing.
Lenovo's Tab P11 Pro is a mid-range Android tablet that sports a 11.5" 2560x1600 500-nits OLED display, a Snapdragon 730G chipset, 128GB of storage, a microSD slot and a large 8,600 mAh battery. There's an optional keyboard, pen and kickstand pack that will cost an extra $100.
The Tab P11 will launch by the end of 2020 starting at $499.
BBK's S5 Pro is a high-end education tablet aimed for kids that sports a 11-inch 2368x1728 AMOLED display. The tablet sports a pop-up front facing 16MP camera that support gestures and the tablet includes "AI intelligent tutoring" and a large library of over 140,000 educational videos.
The S5 Pro is now shipping in China for around $700.
Samsung's Galaxy Tab S6 tablet features a 10.5" 2560x1600 Super AMOLED display with an in-screen fingerprint sensor, a snapdragon 855 chipset, 6GB of RAM, 128 GB of storage, dual camera setup and a redesign S pen. Samsung offers a new keyboard cover for the new tablet.
The Tab S6 is now shipping, starting at $649 for the Wi-Fi model.
Samsung's Galaxy Tab S5e is a light and thin tablet - it is Samsung's thinnest tablet yet at 5.5 mm. The tablet features a 10.5" WQXGA (2560x1600) Super AMOLED display with a 81.8% screen-to-body ratio.
Samsung's Tab S53 offers mid-range performance with a snapdragon 670 octa-core chipset, 4/6 GB of RA and 64/128 GB of storage (with a microSD slot). The 7,040 mAh battery provides up to 14.5 hours.
The ALLDOCUBE X is a high-end tablet designed for movies and music that features a 10.5" 2560x1600 Super AMOLED display. The tablet features a mediaTek MT8176 CPU coupled with a IMG Power VR GX6250 GPU and high-end AKM Hi-Fi Audio.
The ALLDOCUBE X runs on Android 8.1 and comes with 4GB of RAM, 64 GB of storage and a MicroSD slot. There's also fingerprint scanner, a large 8,000mAh battery. The ALLDOCUBE X is now shipping globally via AliExpress ($245) or Amazon ($285). Note: affiliate links to Amazon and AliExpress.
Royole's FlexPai is a foldable smartphone/tablet device that has a 7.8" 1920x1440 AMOLED display, when unfolded. The display folds outwards, and when folded the device has three different displays (front, back and spine). The FlexPai is based on a Snapdragon chipset, has two cameras, a microSD slot and a fingerprint sensor. The device uses the company's unique Android-based Water OS that automatically adapts different viewing modes for different folding angles and user scenarios
The Developer Mode FlexPai was available from Royole for $1318 (128GB model) in December 2018, but is no longer so.
Samsung's Galaxy Book2 is a Windows 10 2-in-a laptop / tablet device that 12" 2160x1440 Super AMOLED touchscreen, a Snapdragon 850 chipset, 4GB of RAM and 128GB of SSD storage.
