A team of researchers in South Korea has developed a new type of transparent OLED technology that could help improve future augmented reality (AR) glasses, smart windows, vehicle displays, and other advanced electronic devices. The research was led by Professor Yongtaek Hong and his team at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Seoul […] The post Transparent OLED advance could …
TL;DR: Always-on displays don’t drain your phone battery because they rely on two hardware advancements: OLED panels and LTPO technology. OLEDs save power by physically turning off pixels to display black backgrounds. Meanwhile, LTPO allows the screen’s refresh rate to drop to 1Hz, preventing the CPU from constantly waking up. I often glance down at my phone sitting on my desk. The screen is tech…
I say this as someone who is deathly afraid of spiders: the idea of OLED burn-in shivers my spine more than any eight-legged freak could. The only real downside to owning an OLED display is the slight (yet still very real) chance it could develop permanent image retention. If you take the right precautionary steps, though, you can more or less banish burn-in fears.
I bought my first OLED TV back …
