Apple Announces $149 HomePod Mini 2 With Siri AI, 'Sound Glow', and Four-Speaker Surround Sound

Apple today announced a caller HomePod mini equipped with Siri AI, caller colors, and improved audio experiences. The caller ‌HomePod mini‌ has an S10 spot that supports precocious computational audio, and Apple says it optimizes dynamic range, loudness, and acoustic show successful real-time.


A Sound Glow diagnostic turns the ‌HomePod mini‌'s apical into a "visual canvas" that glows and animates successful sync with music, reacting to bass and treble. It uses colors generated from the song's medium artwork for a unsocial acquisition for each song.

Four HomePod minis tin beryllium paired unneurotic to make a four-speaker situation dependable with the latest Apple TV 4K, which Apple besides announced today. The speakers and the ‌Apple TV‌ are capable to admit their presumption successful the country and levels are calibrated to the space. The ‌HomePod mini‌ besides works arsenic a talker for the Mac.

‌Siri‌ AI volition beryllium disposable successful a aboriginal bundle update, and volition enactment erstwhile the ‌HomePod mini‌ is paired with an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone oregon iPad. It volition beryllium capable to admit up to six users by dependable and link to their instrumentality for personalized accusation similar Messages.

As with the anterior mentation of the ‌HomePod mini‌, the caller exemplary is capable to service arsenic a location hub and power astute location devices. It supports Sound Recognition and tin perceive for fume oregon c monoxide alarms, sending an alert if 1 is detected.

The ‌HomePod mini‌ 2 comes successful pink, green, blue, white, and midnight and volition motorboat connected October 30. It's priced astatine $149.
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