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HTC One M8 Harman/Kardon Edition: unboxing & extended hands-on (Video)

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Michael Fisher

We checked out the Harman Kardon HTC One M8 at the Sprint launch event in NYC yesterday, but with all the hubbub on the show floor, conditions weren’t great for a proper hands-on. Thankfully, Sprint and HTC were good enough to send us our very own review unit for a second pass today, so we thought we’d take the opportunity to churn out a nice luxurious unboxing and hardware tour! You probably ...

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Remember when smartphones came with a ton of accessories?

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Michael Fisher

Nobody likes a cheapskate. It’s why we have fun derogatory labels like “tightwad” and “skinflint” for those friends of ours who insist on dividing the bar bill by how many mozzarella sticks they actually consumed, rather than by the cost of the plate. Whatever other merits they might have, penny-pinchers just aren’t fun to have around. That’s no less true in the case of huge multinational corporations than with people. But where a cheap social friend is pretty easy to jettison when he gets annoying, it’s a little harder to make up for the ...

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HTC One: Premium Unboxing and Hardware Tour (Video)

Posted on March 12, 2013 by Michael Fisher

Sometimes, the word “unboxing” alone just doesn’t fit. It’s too cursory, too flippant. De-boxing videos used to be a novelty, but now everyone does them for products ranging from dumbphones to screen protectors. And while all unboxings are fun in their own peculiar way, some devices call for more. A high-end smartphone, after all, deserves a high-end unboxing – doesn’t it? Introducing a new kind of package-shedding video: a “premium” unboxing. We weren’t in a rush for this one, as literally thousands of sweaty fingers all over the ...