Top Stories: Apple HomeView, New Apple TV and HomePod mini, and Sold-Out iPhone Duo

It was different brainsick engaged week for Apple, headlined by Tuesday seeing the institution instrumentality the wraps disconnected of respective home-related products arsenic portion of a "Welcome home" motorboat wave.


And arsenic if that wasn't enough, Friday saw the commencement of iPhone Duo pre-orders with transportation estimates rapidly slipping by months amid its popularity and evident merchandise shortages, portion we're looking guardant to adjacent much products launches aboriginal this month, truthful work connected beneath for each of the details!

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Apple Announces 'HomeView' Smart Home Hub

Apple's long-rumored astute location hub is yet official, with Apple debuting the $299 HomeView arsenic portion of its "Welcome home" merchandise motorboat this week.


Apple HomeView features a 7-inch Liquid Retina show and Siri AI support, and it's disposable successful some tabletop and partition mounted versions. The instrumentality is capable to admit aggregate users and set its presumption of accusation depending connected however acold the idiosyncratic is from the screen, and it supports Photos faces, Apple Music playlists, FaceTime calls, and more.

Pre-orders are underway present with a motorboat coming connected November 13.

New Apple TV 4K Announced With A19 Chip, Updated Siri Remote, More

While the Apple HomeView was the header attraction of this week's introductions, the Apple TV container besides got its archetypal update successful 4 years with the unveiling of the fourth-generation Apple TV 4K.


The caller container gets a large upgrade to the A19 chip, which provides Siri AI enactment and improved performance. A caller Siri Remote (also disposable separately for older boxes) includes Find My enactment with Precision Finding and a talker to let it to marque itself heard erstwhile lost. And for times erstwhile you privation to usage Siri without the remote, the container itself besides present includes microphones for hands-free Siri AI.

The caller container comes with a important terms hike to $299, and it's disposable for pre-order present up of a November 13 launch.

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

Apple's 3rd home-related merchandise announcement for the week was a new HomePod mini equipped with Siri AI, caller colors, and improved audio experiences. The ‌HomePod‌ mini 2 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.

The HomePod mini 2 is priced astatine $149 and is disposable for pre-order present up of an October 30 launch. Siri AI won't beryllium disposable astatine launch, however, arsenic it volition travel successful a aboriginal bundle update.

iPhone Duo is Sold Out for Christmas arsenic Shipping Estimates Slip to 2027

Apple began accepting iPhone Duo pre-orders successful a fig of countries astatine 5 a.m. Pacific Time connected Friday, with transportation estimates starting to gaffe wrong minutes if not seconds. Within fractional an hour, transportation estimates successful the U.S. ultimately stabilized astatine precocious January 2027, a three-month delay.


In remains to beryllium seen however much, if any, banal Apple volition person astatine its retail stores for walk-in purchases connected the October 23 motorboat date, and scalpers are already selling disconnected aboriginal pre-orders for arsenic overmuch arsenic $5,000.

Apple Inviting Media to October 28 'Launch Experience'

After antecedently reporting that Apple was planning a two-day merchandise showcase successful Los Angeles connected October 27 and 28 for prime contented creators and members of the media to acquisition adjacent much upcoming Apple products, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman present says Apple has begun explicitly inviting members of the media to the lawsuit for October 28.


We're expecting to spot respective much products motorboat connected either October 27 oregon 28, including caller high-end 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook models with touchscreen OLED displays, caller iMac and entry-level MacBook Pro models based astir the M6 chip, and a caller iPad mini with an OLED display.

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