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• Fiercé - Sunday, February 17, 2013 - link

  Just curious if the new BlackBerry phone is one of the items you're reviewing and are under embargo for?
  
  Or will Mr. Klug only tackle that when it's available in the U.S.?
  
  Won't consider purchasing it until I read a review here. Reply

• Brian Klug - Sunday, February 17, 2013 - link

  We've got a Z10, well Anand does but it might get handed off to me at some point, as usual battery life testing and such takes a while. It's in the pipeline for sure though :)
  
  -Brian Reply

• tipoo - Monday, February 18, 2013 - link

  Does anything under embargo start with PS and end with 4? :P Reply

• Communism - Sunday, February 17, 2013 - link

  At what date can you tell us what Thermal Interface Material the desktop Haswell will have between the die and the Integrated Heat Sink?
  
  Its obvious that this is the easiest way to make Haswell look facetiously better than Ivy Bridge on the desktop. Reply

• ImSpartacus - Monday, February 18, 2013 - link

  I doubt Anandtech will be able to confidently verify the TIM until they have a retail unit in their labs. We'll likely hear from enthusiasts that delid their CPUs long before that. Reply

• Ian Cutress - Monday, February 18, 2013 - link

  We have labs?!? :D Reply

• Communism - Monday, February 18, 2013 - link

  In one of these podcasts at least Anand made it clear that they know this information already but were not allowed to release/leak it yet.
  Hence the asking about what time they are allowed to do that. Reply

• Hybridtechz - Sunday, February 17, 2013 - link

  Hi guys.. You are awesome..incredible focused tech reviews and observations....i would love hearing from you a method to calibrate display on devices...i own a nexus 7 and a nexus 4 and the screens are not calibrated at all...especially the panel on the nexus 4 is a high-end one..but without calibration colors are washed out..it's frustating..can you please talk about this topic in your podcast? Or even better can you write an article regarding this issue? I think a lot of people would appreciate that..and that would be a good method to make people realize how important is this thing and you are the only reviewers who highlight this topic when analysing the display on any kind of device Reply

• Brian Klug - Sunday, February 17, 2013 - link

  This is a big deal that I spent a lot of 2011 dealing with. The problem is that unlike Windows or OS X, there's no easy way to load a LUT onto the device in a standard, OS-unified fashion. There are some things you can do per platform (SoC / OEM) to make this work, for example Francois has been tinkering with display calibration on Android with some apps that require root: https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=su... and there are a few other similar methods, but it depends on the platform and generally is a hack and iterative process (tweak a file, measure, what changed, iterate).
  
  So it's possible, it's nowhere near mature however. I think the ultimate goal is a display colorimeter attached over USB-OTG that will enable end users to do this kind of calibration, since this is a real issue, and OEMs don't want to incur the dollar or so extra on BOM to get it calibrated.
  
  -Brian Reply

• Hybridtechz - Monday, February 18, 2013 - link

  Thanks brian...i beg you to notify readers when something like that will happen....for now, i'll take a look at the app you linked Reply