So far, in terms of tablets, only a selection of iPad Pros have made the upgrade to OLED panels, but it looks like that will change soon.

Last month, Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reported that the iPad mini 8 will come with the screen technology upgrade and could arrive “as early as next year”. Now a reliable leaker has backed up both the screen technology and timeframe, narrowing down the release window to the back end of 2026.

On Weibo, Instant Digital writes that the iPad mini will indeed be the first to get the OLED treatment with the iPad Air seeing “no movement yet” (an inexact translation from Google Translate, but it certainly gets the meaning across).

This is a big upgrade. Each pixel on an OLED panel is self-lit, ensuring perfect contrast and the kinds of deep, inky blacks that LCD

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