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Apple’s HomePod has been sitting in limbo for the better part of a year, but a few new clues suggest that it’s on the cusp of launching — and hint at what it can do. To begin with, the HomePod recently received FCC approval. The filing itself doesn’t reveal anything shocking about the device (surprise, […]
Enlarge (credit: Apple) When you say “Hey Siri, give me the news” to your iOS device, Siri will now immediately begin playing a daily news update from a popular news podcast—NPR by default in the United States. Coming shortly before the launch of the HomePod smart speaker, also powered by Siri, this small feature is […]
Have you wondered why it took Apple 3 years to come up with an answer to the Amazon Echo in the form of the HomePod? Apparently, it’s because it wasn’t really meant as an answer to the Echo. Bloomberg sources claim that work on the HomePod started in 2012 as a side project (common at […]
Enlarge / Look at this happy couple enjoying voice commands and high quality audio in their home! (credit: Apple) In a statement to CNBC this morning, Apple said its HomePod smart speaker will be released in 2018, not by the end of this year as originally announced. Here is the company’s statement: We can’t wait […]
We hope you weren’t counting on giving (or getting) a HomePod for the holidays — Apple has delayed the release of the Siri-powered speaker from December to early 2018. In a statement, the company said it needed a “little more time” before the device was ready for its initial release in Australia, the UK and […]
The terribly-named LF-S50G combines a banging speaker with the power of Google Assistant. https://media.wired.com/photos/59a858d6e048a95f9f72e5aa/master/pass/sonyspeaker-FA.jpg Feed: All Latest
Apple unveiled its Siri-powered HomePod speaker hub at WWDC back in June, and despite a hefty $ 350 pricetag and the inevitable comparisons to Alexa devices, it actually sounds pretty good. In the lead up to its release this December, Apple pushed out the hub’s firmware, revealing that it runs on iOS — basically like […]
Enlarge / The hardware Bixby button on the Galaxy S8. (credit: Ron Amadeo) Voice assistant smart speakers are all the rage these days, and if Samsung is good at anything, it’s at doing what everyone else is doing. To join the smart speaker lineup alongside the Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod, and a Microsoft […]
BI Intelligence The following is a blurb from a BI Intelligence research note using exclusive data from our BI Insiders Panel. To access the complete survey results, please subscribe here. Apple finally jumped into the smart speaker market, but it hasn’t inspired the fervor that we’ve come to expect from the iPhone-maker’s new releases, according to exclusive […]
GUEST: Before Apple’s WWDC announcements on Monday, the web was abuzz with rumours that the tech giant would deliver a device that could take on both Amazon Alexa and Google Home. Instead, we got HomePod, which seems to be more of a challenge to home sound system Sonos. The HomePod and new multi-room audio feature […]
