HTC One (M8) for Sprint is using Harman/Kardon speakers

10 April, 2014

HTC's affair with Beats ended a while back, but is the smartphone maker courting another popular audio company? Harman/Kardon is a hi-fi company that makes anything from headphones to car audio and it seems that Sprint's HTC One (M8) has BoomSound speakers manufactured by just that company.

It seems that units sold by Sprint already have the speakers in them, but HTC hasn’t closed the deal completely, which is why the company isn't bragging about the special speakers just yet.

Harman/Kardon option in the Settings menu of a Sprint HTC One (M8)

XDA Developers user Rydah805 posted a screenshot featuring a Harman/Kardon option in the settings menu. We'll have to wait until HTC closes the deal to find out if it has any plans to use H/K speakers on other smartphones, especially other One (M8) phones.

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Reader comments

Anonymous
11 Apr 2014
3GV

i listened to this today on full volume with my iems no distortion great

MasEnha
11 Apr 2014
9xx

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MasEnha
11 Apr 2014
9xx

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