Today, April 10, Sprint
is offering the new HTC One M8 in its retail locations.
While that should help spur sales, there also might be another reason to start
giving this Sprint carrier variant of the One M8 a little extra attention, as some
evidence suggests that Sprint’s got a special version of the One M8 with Harman/Kardon audio enhancements.
While
@evleaks started the rumor overnight, it was on an XDA-Developers thread wherethe story really came together. First users attempted to confirm the news,
claiming that this wasn’t going to be some future release from Sprint, but the
Harman/Kardon stuff was baked-in to the One M8 already at the carrier, and
Sprint has just been quiet about promoting this arrangement.
That was
soon backed up by evidence from the phone itself, where a hidden
“support_harman” flag in a configuration file enabled new settings for extra
Harman/Kardon audio processing.
The
software bit definitely seems to be in place, but we can’t say yet if the
changes extend to the hardware itself – whether or not the Sprint M8 uses the
same speakers as other models, or if it has special Harman/Kardon hardware to
compliment the software.
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| And here are the screenshots! |
In all
likelihood, Sprint will come clean and announce the Harman/Kardon tie-in
shortly; though there may be issues we’re unaware of delaying the news. At that
point, look for the feature to be remotely enabled on existing Sprint One M8
models.
Our article on Harman/Kardon audio processing is coming shortly.
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