The rumors are confirmed: The homepodApple’s most advanced smart speaker.
Apple introduced this on Wednesday The second generation of your HomePodWhich will go on sale in Spain on February 3 for a recommended price of 349 euros, as mentioned in a statement.
The standard HomePod is the first smart speaker with Siri that Apple launched in the market back in 2018. Although the company later launched its smaller and more expensive HomePod mini, it didn’t re-release new models of the main HomePod, wi In fact, it was withdrawn from the market a long time ago.,
The second generation of HomePod now returns to the front door thanks to the new second generation model, which is one of its main features Add Apple Spatial AudioIts available on services like Apple Music platform.
Thanks for this technique, speaker Know your surroundings To detect whether sound bounces off surrounding surfaces such as walls and thus through the 5 tweeters and technology to be able to adapt the reproduction in real time. beamforming To separate and direct the sound to create a more immersive sensation.
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Talking about the rest of the sound features, HomePod has a high excursion woofera motor to move you 20-millimetre diaphragm and an integrated microphone With equalization system.
based on its internal workings Chip S7 Apple’s own development, the same one used by other company products such as the Apple Watch 8 and which allows for a more complete sound operation than its predecessor.
Apple has also renewed the design of HomePodAlthough it maintains the same line that already characterized its first smart speaker and its smaller successor, the HomePod Mini.
The American company also highlights integration with other products in its ecosystem such as the iPhone to answer calls directly, the Apple TV 4K to reproduce television sound and even the search function To locate other nearby devices by using .
Among its most outstanding functions are: voice recognition, with which it detects alarms such as smoke and carbon monoxide and sends notifications to the user’s iPhone; temperature and humidity sensors; integration with IoT through the Casa App; and compatibility with open standard Substance.
The novelty comes in the list just a day after the company launched additional 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pro and Mac mini models. New M2 Pro and M2 Max processors Aimed at professionals and creative users.
