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CTOnews.com January 18, Apple officially released the new HomePod this evening, priced at 2299 yuan, and will be officially released on Friday, February 3, starting with orders today.

Apple officials said the new HomePod "brings breakthrough sound quality and smart experience", showing outstanding sound quality, enhanced Siri features and a safe and secure smart home experience.

CTOnews.com learned that HomePod (second generation) supports iPhone SE (second generation) and subsequent models or iPhone 8 and subsequent models running iOS 16.3 or successor systems. At present, Apple's official detailed interpretation has also come, let's take a look.

This powerful intelligent loudspeaker uses a beautiful and iconic design to bring users a new generation of acoustic experience. HomePod brings together a number of innovative Apple technologies and Siri intelligence to provide advanced computing audio technology to support the playback of immersive spatial audio tracks, presenting an unprecedented listening experience. HomePod brings convenient new ways to manage daily tasks and control smart homes, and users can use Siri to create smart home automation features that can be notified when smoke or carbon monoxide alarms are triggered at home, or check the temperature and humidity of the room-all of which can be done without hands.

The new HomePod can be ordered online or through Apple Store App from today and will go on sale on Friday, February 3.

"with our professional audio technology and innovation, the new HomePod can present a mellow bass, a natural alto and a clear and delicate treble." Greg Joswiak, senior vice president of global marketing at Apple, said, "with the popularity of HomePod mini, we are seeing a growing interest in HomePod with larger size and stronger acoustic performance. We are pleased to bring a new generation of HomePod to customers around the world."

Graceful design the appearance of the new HomePod is composed of seamless transparent mesh and backlit trackpad, and the beautiful design complements all kinds of spaces. The HomePod is available in white and a new midnight look, the latter is made of 100% recycled fabric and is equipped with the same color braided power cord.

The HomePod is beautifully designed and consists of a seamless transparent mesh and a backlit trackpad. The strong acoustic performance HomePod presents outstanding sound quality, the bass is mellow and deep, and the high frequency is amazing. A custom-developed high-amplitude subwoofer, a powerful motor-driven diaphragm with an astonishing amplitude of up to 20mm, a built-in bass equalizer microphone, and an array of five beamforming tweeters at the bottom to create a powerful acoustic experience. The S7 chip combines software and system sensing technology to provide more advanced computing audio, giving full play to the full potential of the acoustic system and presenting an unprecedented listening experience.

High-amplitude subwoofer, powerful motor, built-in subwoofer microphone and beamforming five-tweeter array work together to create a powerful acoustic experience. Using indoor space sensing technology, HomePod can identify the sound reflected from nearby surfaces, determine whether it is close to surfaces such as walls, and adjust the audio in real time. The beamforming array composed of five tweeters uses precise pointing control to separate and orient direct sound and ambient sound, allowing users to indulge in clear human voice and mellow instrumental music.

Users can listen to tens of millions of songs in the Apple Music music library and enjoy spatial audio through a single HomePod or a stereo combination of two HomePod. Users can learn about all kinds of music through Siri and search for music by artist, song, lyrics, age, type, mood or activity.

Multiple HomePod brings a better experience two and more HomePod or HomePod mini can unlock a series of powerful features. With the spaced playback technology that supports multi-room audio, users can play the same song on multiple HomePod, or play different songs on different HomePod, or even broadcast messages to each room by saying "Hey Siri" or touching and holding the top of the HomePod.

Users can also put two HomePod together to form a stereo combination. The stereo combination can not only separate the left and right channels, but also play dual-channel audio harmoniously, creating a wider and more immersive sound field than traditional stereo loudspeakers, showing an outstanding listening experience.

Users can use two HomePod to form a stereo combination to create a broader and more immersive sound field. Seamlessly integrate the Apple ecosystem using ultra-wideband technology, users can transfer any sound played on the iPhone, such as favorite songs, podcasts, and even calls directly to HomePod. Anyone in the room can hold the iPhone close to the HomePod, and playback suggestions automatically appear on the iPhone screen, making it easy to control audio playback or get personalized song and podcast recommendations. HomePod also recognizes the voices of up to six users, making it easy for all family members to listen to private playlists, set reminders and calendar events.

HomePod's "find" function allows lost devices to play sounds and help users locate Apple devices such as iPhone. Users can also ask Siri for the location of their friends or family (they need to choose to share their location in the "find" App).

Anyone in the room can hold the iPhone close to the HomePod, and playback suggestions automatically appear on the iPhone screen, making it easy to control audio playback or get personalized song and podcast recommendations. Smart home must rely on voice recognition function, HomePod can hear smoke or carbon monoxide alarm sound, after identifying such sounds, send a notification directly to the user's iPhone. The new built-in temperature and humidity sensors measure the indoor environment, allowing users to set automation, such as closing the curtains or turning on the fan when the room reaches a certain temperature.

With Siri, customers can control a single device without having to do it, or create scenes, such as having multiple smart home devices start working at the same time in the morning, or setting up recurring automated operations such as "Hey Siri, open the curtains at sunrise every morning". When users use Siri to control accessories such as heating that cannot be turned on or off with the naked eye, or when they control accessories located in different rooms, HomePod will issue a new confirmation sound. Reproduced environmental sound effects such as ocean, forest and rain will be further integrated into the experience, allowing customers to add new sounds to scenes, automation and alarms.

Users can also visually manipulate, view, and manage accessories in the redesigned home App. Home App offers new categories such as "environment", "light" and "security", as well as a new multi-location view that makes it easy for users to set up and control smart homes.

Users can intuitively manipulate, view, and manage accessories in the redesigned home App. Matter supports the Matter connectivity standard launched last fall to ensure that smart home products maintain the highest level of security when working across ecosystems. Apple is a member of the Connectivity Standards Alliance (Connectivity Standards Alliance), which works with other industry leaders to maintain the Matter smart home connectivity standard. HomePod can connect and support Matter accessories, act as a home hub, so that users can be remotely controlled when they are away from home.

Customer data belongs to private property and the protection of customer privacy has always been a core value of Apple. Communication between all smart home devices is always encrypted end-to-end, including content recorded by the HomeKit security video camera, which cannot be read by Apple. When using Siri, the request audio is not stored by default. These features ensure that users' privacy at home is guaranteed.

HomePod and Environmental HomePod are committed to minimizing the impact on the environment, using 100% recycled gold in the plating layers of multiple printed circuit boards (for the first time for HomePod) and using 100% recycled rare earth elements in speaker magnets. HomePod meets Apple's stringent energy efficiency standards and is free of mercury, brominated flame retardants (BFR), polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and beryllium. The redesigned packaging materials no longer use plastic film, and 96% of the packaging materials are fiber-based, bringing Apple closer to the goal of completely removing plastic from the packaging by the end of 2025.

Apple has achieved 100% carbon neutrality in global corporate operations and plans to achieve 100% carbon neutrality in the entire supply chain and all product lifecycles by 2030. This means that every Apple device sold, from parts manufacturing, assembly, transportation, user use, charging, to equipment and material recycling, will achieve a net zero climate impact.

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