Apple HomePod mini 2 acknowledged to be arriving in 2025, along with one maxi enhance
- Anticipated to launch sooner than the iPhone 17
- New Wi-Fi chip that’ll even be throughout the subsequent Apple TV
- More than likely obtained't be known as Mini 2: Siri Boogaloo
What’s obtained two thumbs and has a minor little bit of experiences regarding the HomePod mini? The reply is me. A model new report says that Apple is engaged on a refreshed mannequin of its smallest good home speaker, and that it should arrive sooner than the iPhone 17.
The HomePod mini was launched in November 2020 and aside from plenty of new color decisions, hasn’t been refreshed since.
That isn’t primarily a nasty issue: in our HomePod mini analysis we gave it 4 stars for its spectacular sound and naturally, it nonetheless sounds the similar in the intervening time. Nevertheless throughout the thrilling world of Bluetooth and wi-fi audio system 4 years is a extremely very very long time, and the HomePod would possibly do with on the very least a refresh to keep up it current.
What’s occurring with the HomePod mini?
The model new report, from Bloomberg, says that Apple is working by itself Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chip with help for on the very least Wi-Fi 6E. That chip is destined for plenty of items – iPhones, iPads and Macs – and it is going to be coming first to a refreshed HomePod mini and Apple TV 4K. Supplied that the annual iPhone launch is on a regular basis in September, which means a launch some time sooner than that.
Particulars of various enhancements to the mini are fully absent. Nevertheless the report states that Apple is making the enhancements as part of its wider good home refresh: it has been lagging behind rivals for a while now and 2025 is the beginning of the battle once more.
Earlier tales have revealed completely different good home plans for 2025 and previous: the long-rumored and often leaked HomePod with touchscreen present, which could correctly be marketed additional as a sensible home hub (or soundbar) than a sensible speaker; a similar HomePod with an old-iMac-style present on an arm, in all probability a robotic one; and a sensible home security digicam, at current tipped for a 2026 launch with product sales expectations throughout the tens of tens of hundreds of thousands.
