Apple launches a new product HomePod with ultimate features

California, January 24: Most famous company for mobile manufacturing, Apple Inc., is coming with a new product ‘HomePod’. Apple has announced it will release the HomePod on February 9th and that preorders for the device will start this Friday, January 26th. The smart speaker will initially go on sale in the US, UK, and Australia. It’ll then arrive in France and Germany sometime this spring.

The company’s first smart speaker was originally supposed to go on sale before the end of 2017, but it was delayed in mid-December. That meant Apple missed a holiday season where millions of smart speakers were sold — but the market for voice-activated speakers is clearly just getting started. And at $349, Apple’s speaker is playing in a very different market than Amazon’s and Google’s primarily cheap and tiny speakers.

The HomePod supports AirPlay 2, which allows multi-speaker audio streaming. It uses the Apple A8 chip and the Siri software. A touchscreen atop the device displays a dynamic waveform, similar to the one displayed on other Apple devices when Siri is activated. It also allows the user to adjust playback volume and to play and pause playback.

It features seven tweeters in its base and a four-inch woofer towards the top. Six microphones around HomePod’s center gauge the acoustics of the room; software directs parts of the mix to various speakers for improved sound quality and separation.