Apple Launches $99 HomePod Mini With Big Sound and Siri Smarts
The Siri included in HomePod Mini can recognize the voice of every person in your home and access your phone's iPhone apps or send messages. It can also provide you with personal updates.
HomePod Mini's intercom can also send messages to other HomePod Mini in other rooms. It also works on other Apple devices and services. These messages can be auto-played on HomePod mini and AirPods, while other devices such as iPhones and CarPlay receive notifications of such messages.
As always, Apple has taken care of privacy in the HomePod mini. The company will only protect your audio if you allow it. Your personal updates will be provided to you at home and everything will be encrypted. The device will work with Apple Music, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn.
In the future, it will also support Pandora and Amazon Music. Volume, play and pause can be controlled with the controls on the backlit touch sensor in the HomePod mini.
The HomePod Mini supports 360-degree sound and can be connected to many HomePod mini. The HomePod Mini has an Apple S5 chip that enables computational audio. This means that the speaker has constant loudness. And adjusts the dynamic range in real-time.
Later this year, it will be able to work with U1 UWB on iPhones and find out when your phone is next to the HomePod mini.
The HomePod mini will be available in white and space gray. Pre-orders for HomePad Money will start at $99 from November 6, while delivery will begin on November 16.
