Apple’s second-gen HomePod sounds good and works well, but its high price and Apple-exclusive constraints give it more-limited appeal than other smart speakers.

The upcoming smart home speaker could be Apple’s most significant release of 2025. As usual, the news comes via popular Apple insider Mark Gurman, who believes that Apple plans to enter a new ...

Apple began an all-out attack on home audio last year, announcing the HomePod smart speaker at its 2017 Worldwide Developer Conference. And now, after much anticipation and delay, the HomePod has ...

The HomePod turns your speaker into a home base for all your Apple and smart home devices. After my initial setup of the HomePod, I was tempted to install my old smart light bulbs.

The HomePod turns your speaker into a home base for all your Apple and smart home devices. After my initial setup of the HomePod, I was tempted to install my old smart light bulbs.

Despite Apple's dominance in consumer tech, its smart home speaker strategy is lagging behind Amazon and Google. But the company has a new strategy. Apple, a leader in smartphones, tablets, and ...

The second-generation Apple HomePod has a cheaper starting price than the original while maintaining great sound quality. It also gains new smart home sensors and is fully optimized for Matter ...

In this review of the new Apple HomePod, Consumer Reports says this smart speaker works seamlessly with the company's devices and services and delivers much better sound quality than the HomePod Mini.

Apple revealed that HomePod mini speakers, which first shipped in November 2020, also include a temperature and humidity sensor, which is evidently now being activated with the new smart-home ...

A new study has discovered that most people enjoy smart speakers like Apple's HomePod and see them as having a net-positive impact on their lives. Whether it is Siri on a HomePod mini or Alexa on ...

Apple isn’t new to the smart speaker game, having launched the original HomePod in early 2018. Seen by many as a competitor to lower-price Amazon Echo, Google Nest or Sonos devices, ...