Apple’s HomePod mini sold out on its first day. Apple’s all-new HomePod mini can no longer be preordered for delivery on its November 13th launch date.
HomePod mini is designed to fit anywhere in the house. Its elegant shape is wrapped in a perfectly seamless mesh fabric that’s virtually transparent to the sound passing through it. A backlit touch surface on the top provides quick control.
Anyone who wanted a HomePod mini as soon as possible should have ordered it Friday morning. A few hours later, and the Space Gray version of this $99 smart speaker is sold out until December.
And the White version is longer available for delivery on November 16, the earliest day it reaches customer hands. But the extra wait isn’t long, as this version can be delivered as soon as Nov. 17.
HomePod mini currently isn’t listed as available for pickup in Apple retail stores during launch week.
MacDailyNews Take: While it’s good news that Apple’s HomePod mini sold out on first day, there’s no telling just how many HomePod mini units Apple had on hand, but now that the company has more data on demand, they can get their HomePod mini suppliers to work on quickly replenishing supply.
Does anybody know if HomePod mini can be used in conjunction with FaceTime on an iPad in the manner of a loud speaking telephone so that a group of people in a room can make a FaceTime call?
I tried it, and the echo was terrible for the people I was FaceTiming. I gave up on using the HomePod to amplify FaceTime, and we just did it on the phone.
I’m curious to find out what people think of this one.. I have four HomePods paired and, I like them but don’t think they’re the greatest thing like many do.. Just wondering how these are going to sound given the size.
Well, they are what they are: small speakers. You can only get so much out of it. I reckon a pair of these in stereo will do fine at short listening distances. I had Bose MusicMonitors for a while. Each speaker was also a single full range driver + dual passive radiators. The sound was good for the size, although not the clearest, and bass adequate at close range. I think Apple will do some computational things to get the most out of it. Don’t expect something super amazing out of a single driver, so if you do get it I think a stereo pair would get the most out of it.
Home Pods are essentially unusable at a party, since every damn time someone asks Hey Siri for a particular song, the device then forgets the rest of the playlist it was previously playing.