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Apple Unveils HomePod Wireless Speaker With Siri

Apple Unveils HomePod Wireless Speaker With Siri

Posted June 5, 2017 at 7:35pm by iClarified
Apple today unveiled HomePod, a new wireless speaker with Siri.

Designed to work with an Apple Music subscription for access to over 40 million songs, HomePod provides deep knowledge of personal music preferences and tastes and helps users discover new music. HomePod features a large, Apple-designed woofer for deep, clean bass, a custom array of seven beam-forming tweeters that provide pure high frequency acoustics with incredible directional control and powerful technologies built right in to preserve the richness and intent of the original recordings.

“Apple reinvented portable music with iPod and now HomePod will reinvent how we enjoy music wirelessly throughout our homes,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. “HomePod packs powerful speaker technology, Siri intelligence and wireless access to the entire Apple Music library into a beautiful speaker that is less than 7 inches tall, can rock most any room with distortion free music and be a helpful assistant around your home.”


Apple Unveils HomePod Wireless Speaker With Siri


HomePod is designed for voice control with an array of six microphones, so users can interact with it from across the room, even while loud music is playing. By saying, “Hey Siri, I like this song,” HomePod and Apple Music become the perfect musicologist, learning preferences from hundreds of genres and moods, across tens of thousands of playlists, and these music tastes are shared across devices. Siri can also handle advanced searches within the music library, so users can ask questions like “Hey Siri, who’s the drummer in this?” or create a shared Up Next queue with everyone in the home. HomePod, Apple Music and Siri deliver the best music experience in the home that streams ad-free directly to HomePod.

As a home assistant, HomePod is a great way to send messages, get updates on news, sports and weather, or control smart home devices by simply asking Siri to turn on the lights, close the shades or activate a scene. When away from home, HomePod is the perfect home hub, providing remote access and home automations through the Home app on iPhone or iPad.

Apple Unveils HomePod Wireless Speaker With Siri


Audio Innovation and Advanced Technologies
At just under 7 inches tall, HomePod represents years of hardware and software innovation:

● Apple-designed upward-facing woofer, paired with the custom A8 chip, enables bass management through real-time software modeling that ensures the speaker delivers the deepest and cleanest bass possible, with low distortion;

● Custom array of seven beam-forming tweeters, each with its own amplifier, provides well-balanced smooth timbre as well as precise directional control of a multitude of beam shapes and sizes;

● Apple-designed A8 chip provides the brains behind the advanced audio innovations;

● Automatic room-sensing technology allows HomePod to quickly learn its position in a room, whether it’s in a corner, on a table or in a bookshelf, and within seconds, is perfectly optimized to deliver an immersive music listening experience wherever it is placed;

● Six-microphone array with advanced echo cancellation enables Siri to understand people whether they are near the device or standing across the room, even while loud music is playing;

● Siri waveform appears on the top to indicate when Siri is engaged, and integrated touch controls also allow easy navigation;

● Automatic detection and balance of two speakers using both direct and reflected audio to deliver amazing audio wirelessly for an even more immersive experience; and

● Easy setup that is as intuitive as setting up AirPods — simply hold an iPhone next to HomePod and it’s ready to start playing music in seconds.

Security and privacy are fundamental to the design of Apple hardware, software and services. With HomePod, only after “Hey Siri” is recognized locally on the device will any information be sent to Apple servers, encrypted and sent using an anonymous Siri identifier.

Pricing and Availability
HomePod will be available for $349 (US) in white and space gray starting in December initially in Australia, the UK and the US.1 HomePod is compatible with iPhone 5s and later, running iOS 11.


Apple Unveils HomePod Wireless Speaker With Siri
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Ace*
Ace* - June 5, 2017 at 10:25pm
They really are just floundering about with their design now... And the name? HomePod?? Lol. They're just trying to get their hand into whatever market had already been created out there. With this product it's Sonos and amazon's Alexa. Apple better dl somethings innovative quick, they are way behind Amazin in the game of ai. And the apple self-driving car tech? Started about 8 years after Google.
Timmyboy
Timmyboy - June 5, 2017 at 9:38pm
Who on earth would buy this and would want to see this ugly design in their room everyday?.. So ugly garbage
James
James - June 5, 2017 at 8:47pm
Little disappointed. With Sonos adding Alexa support who would pay for this at $350?
radfan957
radfan957 - June 5, 2017 at 8:07pm
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