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 mostly using AMOLED displays. Other companies are also introduce AMOLED displays in tablet devices. It is reported that Apple will release its first OLED iPad at 2024.
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Following is a list of tablets with OLED displays:
NEC's Lavie Tab T14 is a large Android tablet, that offers a 14.5" 120Hz 1876x3000 AMOLED display, an 8-core MediaTek Dimensity 9000 chipset, 12GB of RAM, 256 GB of storage and eight JBL speakers.
The Lavie Tab T14 is now shipping in Japan for around $950.
Huawei's MatePad Pro is a 13.2″ flagship HarmonyOS 4 tablet, that offers a 13.2" 144Hz 2880 x 1920 flexible AMOLED display (with the highest screen-to-body ratio in the industry at 94%), a Kirin 9000s chipset, 12/16 GB of RAM, 256/512/1024 GB of internal storage, and a high-end cooling system.
The MatePad Pro is now shipping in China, starting at around $700.
Samsung's Galaxy Tab S9 series, made out of 3 devices (Tab S9, Tab S9 Plus, Tab S9 Ultra) are all based on AMOLED displays. The Tab S9 offers an 11" 120Hz 1600x2560 AMOLED display, the S9 Plus offers a 12.4" 120Hz 1752x2800 AMOLED and the S9 Ultra offers a 14.6" 120Hz 1848x2960 AMOLED display. The tablets are all powered by a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, and are all dust and water resistant.
The Tab S9 series are now shipping starting at $799 for the Tab S9.
Lenovo's Tab Extreme is a premium tablet that offers a large 14.5" 3K 120Hz AMOLED display, Android 13 OS, 8-core Mediatek Dimensity 9000 chipset, 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.
Lenovo did not yet announce the price or availability of the Tab Extreme.
Lenovo's Pad Pro 2022 tablet features a 11.2" 120Hz 1536x2560 AMOLED display, a MediaTek 1300T chipset, 6/8 GB of RAM, 128GB of storage and a microSDXC card slot.
The Pad Pro 2022 is now shipping, starting at $330.
Huawei's MatePad Pro 11 tablet (2022 edition) offers a 11" 120Hz 2560x1600 AMOLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 or 888 chipset, 8/12 GB of RAM, 128/256/512 GB of storage and a dual camera setup.
The MaePad Pro 11 started shipping towards the end of 2022.
Samsung flagship tablets for 2022, the S8 series, include two versions with AMOLED displays. First up is the Tab S8+, which sports a 12.4-inch 120Hz HDR10+ 1752x2800 Super AMOLED display, a Snapdragon 8 Gen-1 chipset, 8/12 GB of RAM, 128/256 GB of storage, a microSDXC slot, a dual camera setup, 5G connectivity and Pen S Stylus.
The Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra offers a much larger 14.6" 1848x2960 120Hz HDR10+ Super AMOLED display, and more memory options.
NEC's LAVIE Tab 12 is a large-screen tablet device, that sports a 12.6" 600 nits 2560x1600 OLED display, a Snapdragon 870 chipset, 256GB of storage and 8GB of RAM.
The LAVIE Tab 12 started shipping in March 2022 in Japan.
The Vivobook 13 Slate OLED is a detachable Windows laptop/tablet device that features a 13.3" AMOLED display, Intel chipsets, up to 8 GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD storage.
The ASUS Vivobook 13 Slate OLED is now shipping, starting at $600.
Lenovo's XiaoXin Pad Pro 12.6 tablet uses a 12.6" 2560x1600 120Hz 400-nits AMOLED display (produced by SDC), a Qualcomm Snapdragon 870 chipset, 8 GB of RAM and 256GB of storage.
The XiaoXin Pad Pro 12.6 will ship soon in China for 4,299 yuan (around $670 USD)
