Wearable devices with OLED displays

In recent years OLED technology has emerged as the leading display technology for wearable devices - mostly fitness bands and smartwatches, 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:

Apple Watch Series 10

The Apple Watch Series 10 is the company's thinnest smartwatch yet, while still adding new features and having a 18-hours battery life. It's available in two sizes: 46 mm (416x496) or 42 mm (374x446), and the OLED display offers up to 2,000 nits of brightness. Apple says that the new display is up to 40% brighter when viewed at an angle. The new Apple watch adds new AI features and sleep apnea notifications

The Watch Series 10 starts at $399, and will ship on September 20, 2024.

Read the full story Posted: Sep 10,2024

Garmin Instinct 3

Garmin's Instinct 3 outdoor smartwatch offers an AMOLED display (1.2" 390x390 or 1.3" 416x416), up to 24 days of battery life on a single charge, and a MIL-STD 810 toughness rating, as well as water resistance at up to 100 meters and a host of sport modes and health monitors.

The Instict 3 AMOLED starts at $449 and will launch globally soon.

Read the full story Posted: Jan 09,2025

IMNO AIR 3

INMO's AIR 3 AR glasses are based on Sony's 0.44" FHD (1920x1080) OLED microdisplays. The company says that the AIR 3 uses the company's own optical display engine, and its advanced array waveguide technology. The microdisplays offer a 36-degrees field of view, 120Hz refresh rate, and a brightness of 600 nits.

The INMO AIR offers 3DoF smart ring integration and a 16MP ultra-wide camera. The says it will sell the AIR 3 glasses for 4,299 yuan (around $615).

Read the full story Posted: Dec 03,2024

Coros Pace Pro

The Coros Pace Pro is a multi-sport smartwatch that offers a 1.3" 416x416 1,500 nits round AMOLED, 20 days battery life (daily usage in smartwatch mode), improved sensor array with high accuracy heart health and SpO2 (blood oxygen) sensors.

The Coros Pace Pro is now shipping for around $350.

Read the full story Posted: Oct 31,2024

Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2

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+.

Samsung Galaxy Watch Active 2 photo

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.

Read the full story Posted: Aug 06,2019

Casio PRO TEK WSD-F30

Casio's PRO TEK WSD-F30 is an Android Wear OS based smartwatch that sports a round 1.2" round 390x390 AMOLED display with a monochrome transparent LCD on top that can be used to conserve battery life (up to a month with wireless off). It features a MIL-STSD-810 certification, GPS, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi.

Casio PRO TEK WSD-F30 photo

The WSD-F30 is now shipping globally for $549.

Read the full story Posted: Sep 01,2018

Fossil Q Men's Explorist

Fossil's Q Men Explorist is a Google Wear OS smartwatch that features a 1.4" 454x454 AMOLED (produced by BOE), an activity and sleep tracking and an (estimated) 24-hours battery life.

Fossil Q Men's Gen 3 Explorist photo

Read the full story Posted: Sep 01,2017

Samsung Gear Live

The Gear Live is Samsung's first Android Wear smartwatch. The watch has the same display used in the Gear 2 smartwatch (1.63" 320x320 Super AMOLED, 275 PPI). Other features include a 1.2 Ghz CPU, 512MB of RAM, 4Gb of storage, LTE, heart rate monitor and a 300 mAh battery. The Gear Live is dust and water resistant.

Read the full story Posted: Jun 26,2014

Samsung Gear Fit

Samsung's Gear Fit is a smart band wearable device that is aimed towards "active consumers". This is the first fitness band to include a flexible OLED - a curved 1.84" (432x128) Super AMOLED one, in fact.

The Gear Fit includes four fitness monitors (pedometer, exercise, heart rate, and sleep) enabled by three sensors (accelerometer, gyro and hear rate) and can also show mobile phone notifications (messages, e-mails, calls, etc.). The Gear Fit includes a 210 mAh battery, which should be enough for 3 to 4 days.

Read the full story Posted: Feb 25,2014

Samsung Gear 2

The Gear 2 is Samsung 2nd-gen smartwatch. Compared to the original Gear, this watch is lighter, offers a better battery life (2-3 days), has a new design and runs the Tizen OS (as compared to Android). The display is the same 1.63" 320x320 (275 PPI) Super AMOLED display. Other features include a 1Ghz dual-core CPU, 4GB of internal memory, 512MB of RAM, infrared, S Voice, heart rate sensor and a 2MP camera (720p video support).

Samsung Galaxy Gear 2

The Gear 2 was shipping starting at $299. Samsung also offered the Gear 2 Neo which is pretty much the same device only without a camera.

Read the full story Posted: Feb 23,2014