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Apple’s New HomeView Smart Speaker Has an Apple Watch-Shaped Screen

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Apple’s New HomeView Smart Speaker Has an Apple Watch-Shaped Screen

Apple's new home hub has Apple Intelligence at its core. Preorders are open now.

Apple has added an entirely new product type to its ever-growing family of devices. The company unveiled the HomeView smart speaker at its Welcome Home event in New York on Tuesday — a long-rumored addition that looks like a hybrid between a HomePod and a giant Apple Watch.

The HomeView’s square screen is a 7-inch Liquid Retina display. This bold design choice will set Apple’s smart speaker apart from its rivals, most of which have rectangular landscape screens. In the display, two full-range drivers will help deliver room-filling Spatial Audio. The device is powered by Apple’s homegrown A18 chip — the same silicon inside the iPhone 16 Series and the MacBook Neo.

Apple’s home hub functions as a central portal for entertainment, connection and controlling your smart home devices, but also for interacting with Apple Intelligence and Siri AI. This builds on the Siri AI revamp that Apple announced back at WWDC in June, which saw the company introduce a more capable, conversational voice assistant that matches up-to-date AI smarts with the company’s privacy and security standards.

“It is little surprise that the HomeView coincides with Apple’s renewed push on Siri AI and Apple Intelligence,” said Ben Wood, chief analyst at FDM CCS, speaking from the company’s New York event. “The company has undoubtedly been waiting for the upgraded Siri experience, given how important the voice interactions are with this product.”

Unlike most Apple devices, which are either designed completely for personal use (like the iPhone or the Apple Watch) or designed to be shared by everyone in the home (the Apple TV and HomePods), the HomeView straddles both worlds.


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