Apple introduced the $99 HomePad Mini with better sound and Siri Smart

 

Apple introduced the 3.3-inch-tall HomePad Mini. Apple introduced this new smart speaker with built-in Siri Smart. This device can control your smart home and automatically connect to the Home app. The Siri built into the HomePad Mini can recognize the voice of everyone in your home and can access your phone's iPhone apps or send messages. It may also provide you with personalized updates.

HomePad Mini's intercom can also send messages to other HomePad Minis in other rooms. It also works with other Apple devices and services. These messages can be auto-played on HomePad Mini and AirPods, while other devices such as iPhones and CarPlay receive such message notifications.

Like the HomePod, HomePod mini is meant to work with Apple Music, but it also supports podcasts, radio stations from iHeartRadio, radio.com, and TuneIn, with support for some third-party services such as Pandora and Amazon Music.

Two HomePod minis can be paired together to create a stereo pair with left and right channels for rich sound, and multiple HomePod minis can work together throughout the home to stream music to multiple rooms. Two HomePod minis can be paired, but HomePod mini can't be paired to HomePod.

Inside, the HomePod mini is equipped with an S5 chip, which is the same chip that was first used in the Apple Watch Series 5. The S5 chip works with Apple-designed software to analyze the music that's playing to optimize for loudness, adjust dynamic range, and control driver and passive radiator movement in real time.

As always, Apple has taken privacy into account in HomePad Mini. The company will only store your audio if you allow it to. Your personal updates will be delivered to you at home and everything will be encrypted. The device will work with Apple Music, iHeartRadio, radio.com and TuneIn. In the future, it will also support Pandora and Amazon Music.

HomePad Mini can control volume, play and pause with controls on the backlit touch-sensitive touchpad.

This HomePad Mini supports 360-degree sound and can be connected to several HomePad Minis. The HomePad Mini has an Apple S5 chip that enables computational audio. This means that the speaker has constant loudness. and adjusts the dynamic range in real time. Later this year it will be able to work with U1 UWB in iPhones and detect when your phone is near the HomePad Mini.

HomePod mini is designed to fit anywhere in the house. Its elegant shape is wrapped in a perfectly seamless mesh fabric that’s virtually transparent to the sound passing through it. A backlit touch surface on the top provides quick control.

The HomePad Mini will be available in white and space gray colors. Pre-orders for the HomePad Mini will begin on November 6 for $99, while delivery will begin on November 16.HomePod mini works effortlessly with your Apple devices. Pick up an incoming call from your iPhone, listen to music on your Mac, or upgrade your TV experience by taking the sound from your Apple TV to the next level — they all connect to HomePod mini.

If you’re enjoying music or a podcast and have to head out, you can continue to listen on your iPhone without missing a beat. Hand it off simply by bringing your iPhone close to HomePod mini. And coming soon, you’ll experience the feeling of your iPhone and HomePod mini connecting virtually as the sound transfers.

Siri does everything like there’s nothing to it.

 

Siri is your do-it-all intelligent assistant that puts HomePod mini at the center of your family’s activities. Whether you need a hand with a wide variety of everyday tasks, want easy control over your smart home accessories, or simply want to hear your favorite song — just ask Siri.