by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/17/2013 12:00 PM EST
Posted in Podcast , Surface , Haswell , CPUs , Nexus 4

It's the calm before the storm. The coming weeks are full of big announcements from smartphones to PC components, leaving us to talk about everything we can before the onslaught. We discuss Intel's TV strategy, Microsoft's Surface Pro, the Pebble smartwatch, the removal of unofficial LTE support from the Nexus 4 and Broadcom's LTE baseband. We also set expectations for performance and power consumption on Haswell. Finally, we touch on the recent controversy surrounding range testing Tesla's Model S.

The AnandTech Podcast - Episode 16
featuring Anand Shimpi, Brian Klug & Dr. Ian Cutress

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Total Time: 1 hour 29 minutes

Outline - hh:mm

Microsoft's Surface Pro - 00:00
Setting Haswell Expectations - 00:24
Intel's TV Initiative - 00:31
The Pebble Smartwatch- 00:51
Nexus 4 Removal of LTE - 1:04
Broadcom LTE Baseband - 1:06
Controvery Surrounding Range Testing Tesla's Model S - 1:13

As always, comments are welcome and appreciated. 

BlackBerry under embargo? by Fiercé on Sunday, February 17, 2013
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.
Fiercé
RE: BlackBerry under embargo? by Brian Klug on Sunday, February 17, 2013
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
Brian Klug
RE: BlackBerry under embargo? by tipoo on Monday, February 18, 2013
Does anything under embargo start with PS and end with 4? :P
tipoo
IHS Thermal Interface Material by Communism on Sunday, February 17, 2013
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.
Communism
RE: IHS Thermal Interface Material by ImSpartacus on Monday, February 18, 2013
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.
ImSpartacus
RE: IHS Thermal Interface Material by Ian Cutress on Monday, February 18, 2013
We have labs?!? :D
Ian Cutress
RE: IHS Thermal Interface Material by Communism on Monday, February 18, 2013
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.
Communism
Display calibration by Hybridtechz on Sunday, February 17, 2013
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
Hybridtechz
RE: Display calibration by Brian Klug on Sunday, February 17, 2013
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
Brian Klug
RE: Display calibration by Hybridtechz on Monday, February 18, 2013
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
Hybridtechz
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