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sprint teams up with Spotify and NAB's its own version of the HTC One I'm Jeff Bakalar in for Bridget Carey this is your cnet update there's quite a bit of mobile news to cover in today's run down let's start things off with sprint the third place mobile carrier made a deal with the streaming music service Spotify customers of the family plan will get a six month free trial of the mobile version of Spotify and then after that they can pay for it at a discounted rate that starts next week on May 9th Sprint will also start selling a special version of the HTC One m8 smartphone that will have better audio quality but the name is kind of a mouthful it's called the HTC One m8 Harman Kardon just rolls right off the tongue the Harman Kardon brand is a maker of home audio products in case you were wondering the phone is set to support HD audio formats and can enhance details of music that are lost during audio compression basically it means that the music on there will have six times as much data as it does on a CD it will include a special Harman Kardon earbud and that will value at one hundred and forty dollars the phone hit stores next week also on May ninth for the second year in a row Nintendo is bailing on a traditional III press conference opting for a change of pace in the way the company delivers news to its fans followers and partners Nintendo will hold a series of events at e3 2014 instead Nintendo calls the strategy a quote-unquote proven tactic but I was there last year and I found their presidents to be a bit underwhelming we'll have to see how this year goes acer has introduced a new line of PCs and a powerful Chromebook the products include a switch 10 which is a hybrid tablet laptop with a detachable screen an iconia 17 android tablet a 23 inch aspire u5 all-in-one and an intel core i3 Chromebook overnight Apple cut a hundred dollars off the cheapest macbook air and upgraded the processor across the board the 11.6 inch macbook air now starts at nine hundred dollars while an entry-level 13.3 inch model will go for eleven hundred dollars the processor upgrade will push the air to a one in 4 gigahertz core i5 up from 1.3 this isn't a major update so it's still possible the macbook air will get a total redesign at some point soon after months of speculation Lucasfilm and Disney have announced the cast of Star Wars Episode seven topping the bill our actors reprising their roles from the original trilogy Harrison Ford will play han solo Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker and Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia newcomers to the series include Andy Serkis Oscar Isaac and girls star Adam driver that's your tech news update you can head on over to cnet.com for more details from our Studios here in New York I'm Jeff Bakalar