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:
Samsung's Galaxy Watch Active is an Tizen-OS based smart watch and fitness tracker that targets fashion-forward consumers. The Galaxy Watch Active sports a 1.1" 360x360 AMOLED display, a 1.15Ghz dual-core CPU, 768MB of RAM and 4GB of internal storage.
The Galaxy Watch Active has an accelerometer, gyroscope, barometer, heart rate monitor and an ambient light sensor.
The fourth-edition of Apple's smartwatch features a 1.57" 394x324 LTPO AMOLED display (1.78" 448x368 on the larger 44mm version). The watch is based on a dual-core 64-bit CPU and an array of sensors including a new ECG monitor.
The Watch Series 4 is now shipping, starting at $399 (note: affiliate link to Amazon)
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 will ship by the end of September 2019 starting at $399 (GPS only) or $499 (GPS + Cellular).
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.
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 Band 4 is a fitness tracker that features a BOE 0.95" 240x120 AMOLED display a built-in microphone, an optional NFC and an improved 6-axis accelerometer.
The Mi band is now shipping for around $25 in China (and $45 in the US).
The Oculus Quest is a stand-alone VR headset that features dual 1440x1600 72Hz AMOLED displays, an on-board Qualcomm snapdragon 835 chipset, 64/128 GB of memory and 6 degrees of freedom head and controller tracking.
The Oculus Quest is now shipping starting at $399.