In recent years OLED technology has emerged as the leading display technology for wearable devices - for fitness bands, smartwatches and VR headsets, due to the great image quality, the low power consumption and to the design possibilities enabled by flexible OLEDs. For more information on OLED displays for wearables, and the latest industry news, click here.
Following is a list of wearable devices with OLED displays:
The Apple Watch Series 5 sports a 324x394 1000-nits always-on LTPO AMOLED display (368x448 on the 44m model), an S5 dual-core chipset, 32GB of storage, GPS, Cellular connectivity (optional), an optical heart sensor and electrical heart sensor.
The Watch Series 5 is now shipping starting at $399.
Samsung's Galaxy Watch Active 2 is a Tizen OS based smartwatch that features either a 1.2" 360x360 or 1.4" 360x360 round Super AMOLED displays, covered with Corning Gorilla Glass DX+.
The Watch Active 2 is based on a 1.15Ghz Exynos 9110 dual-core chipset with 768Mb of RAM (1.5Gb in the LTE models) and 4GB of internal storage.
Xiaomi's Mi Watch features a 1.78" 368x448 Super AMOLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon Wear 3100 chipset, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage. It runs on Xiaomi's own wearable operation system.
The Mi Watch will start shipping in China next week for around $165.
Xiaomi's smart fitness band, the Hey Plus 1S, sports a 0.95" AMOLED display (likely BOE's 120x240 one), 50ATM water resistance, NFC and more.
The Hey Plus 1S will ship soon in China starting at around $25.
Vivo's V17 Pro is a high-end smartphone that features a 6.44" 1080x2440 Super AMOLED full-screen display with an under-the-display fingerprint sensor. The V17 Pro also features a Qualcomm Snapdragon 675 chipset, 8 GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, a micro-SD slot, Quad camera setup and a motorized dual selfie camera.
The V17 Pro will ship by the end of September 2019.
Huawei's Watch GT 2 is a smartwatch based on Huawei's own wearable platform. The watch uses a 1.39" 454x454 AMOLED display (likely produced by BOE) or a 1.2" 390x390 on the smaller version. The Watch GT2 has 4GB of internal memory, GPS and a heart rate sensor.
Huawei will start shipping the Watch GT 2 by the end of October 2019.
Garmin's Venu is a fitness smartwatch that features a 1.2" 390x390 AMOLED display and Garmin's health monitoring sensors and features, including hydration tracking, respiration tracking, stress and menstrual cycle tracking and sleep tracking. The Venu has a built-in GPS and includes Garmin contactless Pay.
The Garmin Venu smartwatche will ship by the end of September 2019 for $399.
Michael Kors' 2019 Access smartwatch range include three smartwatches, the Bradshaw 2, Lexington 2 and the MKGO. The first two use a 1.28" AMOLED display while the MKGO uses a slightly smaller one (1.19"). All of these smartwatches are based on Google's WearOS platform and feature a Snapdragon 3100 chipset, NFC, GPS and a heart-rate sensor.
All three watches will ship by the end of October 2019 starting at $295 for the MKGO and $350 for the other watches.
The Fitbit Versa 2 is a health and fitness smartwatch that features a square 1000-nits AMOLED display (seems to be around 1.4" in size), 24/7 heart rate tracking and built-in Amazon Alexa.
The Fitbit Versa 2 will start shipping in September 2019, starting at $229.
Fossil's 5-Gen Wear-OS smartwatch lineup (called Carlyle HR and Julianna HR) sport a round 1.28" 328PPI AMOLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 3100 chipset, 1GB of RAM, 8GB of storage, NFC, heart rate sensor and a swim-proof speaker.
Fossil's new smartwatches are already shipping for $295.