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we checked out the Harman Kardon HTC One m8 at the sprint launch event yesterday but conditions weren't great for a proper hands on thankfully Sprint and HTC were good enough to send us our very own Harman Kardon Edition HTC One m8 review unit for a second pass today join us for an unboxing and first look so you probably remember the HTC One I made from our full review and comparison coverage just a few weeks back and if you haven't checked those out the link to the full review is in the description unboxing this device which is exclusive to Sprint in the United States by the way is kind of a pleasant surprise we're not used to seeing additional color variations come this soon after a flagship launches but that's exactly what we have here with this black version it's still aluminum even if it feels a little more slick in the hand than the gunmetal on our other unit but solid black with some nice champagne trim around the camera and also on the boom sound speaker grilles up front it's a little easier to see smudges but otherwise the hardware is identical to what we've seen up to this point down at the bottom is the Harman Kardon branding calling out the principal focus of this device it's a smart phone made to deliver a very special acoustic experience that starts with the bundled Harman Kardon earbuds which HTC says are worth a hundred and $49 retail it's a huge value considering most of the time we're happy just to get the crappy OAM branded but this special acoustic experience continues in the software there's new tech here so of course there are new brand names clarify and live stage we'll get into this more in a future video but these bring new means of decoding and presenting compressed audio basically delivering much more realistic sounding mp3s according to Sprint and HTC the software is also putting sprint music plus and Spotify in the foreground which is no accident in what Spotify calls the biggest deal it's ever done it's providing premium Spotify access free to Sprint customers on a family plan for six months with a discounted rate thereafter the special edition Harman Kardon One m8 will be available May 9th for $230 on contract a $30 premium / the standard model and once again it's exclusive to Sprint will be going more in depth with this phone over the next week or so as we go ears on be sure to let us know in the comments what you're most interested in learning about the device and we'll do our very best to cover it until then this has been michael fisher with PocketNow follow subscribe like and please share this video if you did enjoy it thanks for watching