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I've been living with the Google Home Max and Apple's HomePod side by side for almost 6 months, and they both have one major problem

The HomePod — Apple's ... chatting across the room. Other times, Siri will suddenly say things like, "I'm listening," which I know is standard when Siri is activated and then you don't say anything, b... read more

How to get started with a new HomePod, and get more out of it

Yet after that initial setup, it's very unclear what you can ... across the nation there are HomePods in kitchens who are labelled Living Room and plenty of people who neither know nor care. As long a... read more

You Can’t Unhear Apple’s HomePod

Listening to these demos side by side, and even once I got HomePod home and had it play in my living room comparing it to my Sonos Play One and my Amazon Echo, what hit me was once you hear ... Apple ... read more

Apple’s HomePod: What you need to know before buying one

... is available in Apple Stores now across the U.S., U.K., and Australia, and can easily be returned if you’re dissatisfied after auditioning it at your home. We’ll have more to say on HomePod in the ... read more

Inside Apple’s HomePod Audio Lab

The reason we wanted to build that team was certainly for HomePod, but to also to double-down on audio across all of Apple ... hear you even in loud environments. “We went out to hundreds of employees ... read more

Apple HomePod review: The best-sounding smart speaker yet

Apple's HomePod comes with a long list of fine print. If you own an iOS device, subscribe to Apple Music, can live with Siri's limited capabilities ... Whereas I'm always shouting out Alexa's name to ... read more

Apple HomePod Review: Almost love

It is with these major caveats in mind that we dive into my Apple HomePod review ... requires you to wave your phone around the room while it plays a special tone that the speaker can hear and then us... read more

A four-sentence HomePod review (with appendices)

As a smart speaker, it offers best-in-class voice recognition, vastly outstripping the ability of other smart speakers to hear you trying ... very Apple-y. Sound quality and comparatives: The sound th... read more

Apple HomePod vs Google Home vs Amazon Echo: Battle of the smart speakers

Our Apple HomePod vs Google Home vs ... so you can multi-room control sound through TVs or speakers plugged into those devices. Again, this is a cheaper option than Apple’s solution. The problem here ... read more

Apple HomePod — Part 1: Audio Performance

We’re starting with the HomePod’s raison d’etre: audio performance ... and Apple doesn’t get a pass. Sure, you can stream audio from any app to the HomePod via Airplay (Bluetooth streaming is conspicu... read more

HomePod review roundup: not as smart as it could be, but stunning sound

The clear consensus here ... The HomePod sounds far better than the popular smart speakers from Amazon, Google—and even Sonos […] “Hey Siri, play ‘Tusk’ by Fleetwood Mac.” About 2 minutes into the son... read more

Apple HomePod

If you have even more HomePods, or a mix of HomePods and Apple TVs, you can use them as a multi-room audio system—like Sonos—playing music in different rooms, playing it across the ... full and rich h... read more