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Bob Dylan called it, you guys: the times they are a-changin. Increasingly, more people are sharing and listening to music and video via their phones’ – often craptastic – built-in speakers. For this reason, the music industry is placing a higher emphasis on song mixes tailored specifically for smartphone playback. Yet even with Taylor Swift’s diminutive dynamic range, there still persists a series of reasonably understandable limitations inherent to a pocket sized speaker that will almost undoubtedly leave the listener wanting something more out of their TayTay listening experience. In response, HTC debuted BoomSound on the One M8. It’s purpose was to project as much volume from a tiny speaker as possible.

It doesn’t take a mid-life crisis to find yourself stuck in a rut. When life loses its sheen, you gotta shake up the humdrum and add some glitter to that old-hat, right? For example, the late (admittedly not-so-great) John DeLorean was sick of opening car doors the old fashioned way, so what did he do? Two words: gullwing doors. Let’s be a tad more modest and look instead at the HTC One M9 and it’s Motion Launch functionality. Motion Launch is HTC’s system of finger + motion gestures, aimed at imbuing your phone experience with a touch more panache. Keep reading to find out how to customize