HomePod Deals | Apple Discontinues Orginal HomePod

Apple announced via TechCrunch this evening that the ‌HomePod‌ will be discontinued and will continue to be available while supplies last through the Apple Online Store and Apple Retail Stores.

‌HomePod mini‌ has been a hit since its debut last fall, offering customers amazing sound, an intelligent assistant, and smart home control all for just $99. We are focusing our efforts on ‌the HomePod mini‌. We are discontinuing the original ‌HomePod‌, it will continue to be available while supplies last through the Apple Online Store, Apple Retail Stores, and Apple Authorized Resellers. Apple will provide ‌HomePod‌ customers with software updates and service and support through Apple Care.

 

HomePod Guide

HomePod, which Apple worked on for years before its introduction in 2017, is intended to reinvent how you enjoy music in the home.

The HomePod is the perfect way to enjoy your music at home. It produces a dynamic sound that wraps around you with high-quality acoustics.

Together with Apple Music and Siri, HomePod creates an entirely new way for you to discover and interact with music at home. And HomePod can help you with everyday tasks – from adding shopping or making phone calls, controlling lights, locks, or your thermostat – all via just a few words spoken.

HomePod offers room-filling sound, impeccable bass, and crystal clear treble. It features an advanced AirPlay audio streaming technology with spatial awareness to automatically adjust the sound for its environment.

HomePod detects its location to your home, so if you plug it into a wall outlet near a corner on one side of the room, it’ll bring deeper tones to where they are needed (i.e., from the left or right) and also bring up softer sounds definitively where appropriate (like directly in front).

The HomePod features a six microphone array with an internal bass microphone, which analyzes and counterbalances the room’s impact on the bass response, presenting harmonious, constant sound. An efficacious machine pushes the diaphragm to provide amazing bass even at low volume.

HomePod Sound Quality

HomePod is filled with high-level hardware committed to fulfilling the greatest achievable quality of sound. There’s a seven beam-forming tweeter array at the base, respectively, with its own personal driver. Precision horns direct audio from the speaker’s center out through the bottom with something Apple says is “tremendous directional control.”

Overhead the tweeters, a six-microphone array allows the HomePod to hear spoken Siri commands even while loud music is playing. Above the microphones, the 4-inch upward-facing Apple-designed woofer sits with a robust motor working hard to provide deep bass. The speaker uses automated bass emendation powered by a low-frequency microphone and active software modeling to retain sound distortion-free at all volume levels.

HomePod Capabilities

The HomePod deals with a lot of processing power for a speaker, and Apple says it’s possibly the “biggest brain ever” made into a speaker. The A8 chip commands capabilities like real-time acoustic modeling, buffering, mixing direct and ambient audio, and multi-channel echo cancellation.

HomePod utilizes spatial awareness to effectively identify the room around itself, automatically correcting and adjusting audio to fully benefit its surroundings to fill a room with sound despite where it’s placed. The HomePod also uses a high-level algorithm to constantly analyze what’s playing, dynamically tuning low frequencies for a smooth sound.

HomePods can operate together as a stereo pair for an even more satisfying sound since the 11.4 updates. AirPlay 2 can still manage multiple HomePods in different rooms with ease. AirPlay 2 is also available on televisions and third-party speakers.

The configuration of two HomePods is not exactly true stereo sound, as they don’t work in the right and left channel configuration.

Alternatively, the two HomePods work mutually to detect and balance one another to produce stereo-like sound. The HomePods show up as a single speaker system, which is new since Big Sur updates.

Siri Integration 

Siri, the home assistant, has never been better. Siri isn’t limited to playing music and answers questions encompassing an extensive range of topics from any person without sound, with Siri functionality not restricted to a particular user.

When the primary user is not home, Siri access is limited to Apple Music. Don’t worry; Siri can’t send messages from another person when you’re away. 

Weather

• “Do I need an umbrella today?”
• “How’s the weather this week?”

Find places

• “Where’s a great place to eat Pizza?”
• “What time does the gas station close?”

Get directions

• “Give me walking directions to school.”
• “What’s the best way home?”

Latest News and Sports

• “What football games play today?”
• “What’s the news for today?”

HomePod as a HomeKit Hub

HomePod, like the iPad and Apple TV, serves as a HomeKit hub. As a HomeKit hub, HomePod enables remote access for HomeKit devices, enabling them to be managed when a user is away from home.

Through Siri integration, HomePod can control any user’s HomeKit devices, comparable to what’s possible on both the iPhone and iPad.

How to set up HomePod

1. Hold your iPhone or iPad near your HomePod.
2. Tap Set Up.
3. Select the HomeKit Room you want to use for HomePod (if you have one set up).
4. Determine whether or not you want to enable Personal Requests (allow Siri to read your Messages, Reminders, and Notes whenever your iOS device is connected to the network.)
5. Tap Agree to agree to the terms and conditions.
6. Tap Transfer Settings to use your iCloud account, Wi-Fi, and other appropriate settings from your iPhone to configure your HomePod.
7. Enter your Apple ID Password.
8. Follow along with Siri to get started and play your first song. (Which also sets up the acoustic model for your room.

As of March, there haven’t many HomePod deals, and being that Apple has discontinued the Homepod. The ‌best HomePod‌ deals you can find are for $299.99.

Best Buy HomePod Deals 299$

eBay HomePod Deals 399.99