HomePod (2023)

Apple's original smart speaker is back - and better than ever

- Rob Mead-Green

> £299 > FROM apple.com/uk > FEATURES 4-inch high-excursion woofer, 5x horn-loaded tweeters, 4x microphones for far-field Siri, multi-room audio with AirPlay, Spatial Audio, Bluetooth 5.0, Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n), Thread, Ultra Wideband chip, 168x142mm, 2.3kg

Llike the follow-up to the first Stone Roses album, HomePod aficionados had almost given up on its second coming following Apple’s ditching of it in 2021; its focus shifting to the HomePod mini instead. Only now we have this; the all-new second-gen HomePod and, boy, was it worth the wait.