Travel Technology – Apple HomePod Mini
Time for some more Travel Technology – this week, looking at Apple’s minuture speaker – The HomePod Mini. Is it worth the asking price just to play music and ask it to find where your phone is, or is there a lot more to this speaker?
What is it?
Apple’s HomePod Mini is a miniaturized version of their HomePod. It was released in November 2020 and has been on my radar for some time to take a look at.
The device is a mini version of Apple’s Smart Speaker, allowing you to stream music from it, interact with it and generally enjoy music in your home.
It is 8.4cm tall and 9.8cm wide, available in white or black, coming in at 345g. The speaker features a single full-range driver inside, powered by a neodymium magnet and two force-cancelling passive radiators. For voice commands, a three-microphone array is designed to listen for Siri commands, and a fourth microphone that faces inward isolates sound coming from the speaker…