The first reviews of the updated HomePod say the new smart speaker sounds excellent but doesn’t break much new ground. Compared to Apple’s original smart speaker, the second-generation HomePod is more ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The original HomePod was Apple's answer to the smart speaker trend. It offered Siri built into it, excellent audio quality, and a sleek design ...

Reviews are in for the new large HomePod, with them saying that while Siri is faster, and it has a similar sound, a high price make it hard to justify the product for round two. Apple reintroduced the ...

While its mesh outer shell mimics the full-size HomePod, that’s pretty much where the visual similarities stop. The HomePod Mini is a globe-like build with a flat top and bottom — somewhere in size ...

It's been almost two years since Apple's first smart speaker, the original HomePod, was rather unceremoniously put out to pasture. At the time, many believed it was a strategic move, leaving the much ...

Apple’s HomePod was a bit of a tough sell when it launched in 2018. The $350 speaker (now selling for $300) was far more expensive than the Amazon Echo or Google Home, and Siri was less capable and ...

Apple's second-generation HomePod will start arriving to customers and launch in stores this Friday. Ahead of time, the first reviews of the smart speaker have been shared by select media publications ...

-Apple's Homepod was a bit of a tough sell when it launched in 2018. The $350 speaker was far more expensive than the Amazon Echo or Google Home. And Siri was less capable than Alexa or Google ...

Welcome to the dark night of the smart speaker. A few years back, the category felt inevitable — and, frankly, why not? We’ve smartened our phones and watches. Why shouldn’t our homes be the next step ...

As resurrections go, no one is going to write a holy tome about the return of the Apple HomePod. Before it was announced alongside the new MacBook Pro this month, the second coming of Apple’s smart ...

The HomePod mini is perhaps the Siri smart speaker that Apple should have done sooner, but it's certainly the one you should buy now, even with some limitations. Where the original HomePod was quite ...

Apple’s $99 smart speaker - the HomePod mini - is on sale now. Two years on from the full-fat Apple HomePod that wowed us with its amazing audio performance but felt slightly underbaked in on the ...