Various uses!Apple's new smart speaker "HOMEPOD Mini" with a lineup of bright new colors

New color HomePod mini

Apple has announced three bold and new colors, HomePod Mini, yellow, orange, and blue.Sales will start for 11,880 yen (tax included) from November.

"HomePod mini is an indispensable smart speaker for iPhone users because it provides a great sound, accesses more than 90 million songs around the world of Apple Music and deeply linked to your Apple device.

HomePod mini with new vivid colors will harmonize in more places, provide all of the overwhelming sound, Siri power, simple and secure smart home control while protecting privacy. "Bob Bob Chards, Vice President of Apple World Wide Product Marketing, states.

A compact speaker that delivers a big sound

HomePod mini provides a rich and delicate acoustic experience by computational audio, achieving the best performance.

In order to achieve a loud sound from such a compact design, Apple S5 chips analyze the unique characteristics of music in cooperation with advanced software.

In addition, the work of optimizing the volume, adjusting the dynamic range, and controlling the movement of the driver and passiveadiator is performed in real time in real time.

HomePod mini full -range driver, high -quality neodymium magnet, pair of force cancellation passive jeeta realizes deep bass and clear high range.

The acoustic wave guide, designed by Apple, leads the sound flow to the bottom of the speaker and resonates the sound from the bottom to achieve a 360 -degree real audio experience.

This design not only maintains richness and clarity, but also makes it easier to enjoy a wonderful sound from any angle by placing HomePod mini everywhere in the room.

By placing HomePod mini in multiple rooms, the user can play the same music in a perfectly synchronized state in the house or play different music in each room.

If you put two HomePod mini in one room and create stereo spare, you can experience more realistic experiences when listening to music.Hearing "Hey Siri" in the three microphone rays, and the fourth inward microphone cancels the sound from the speaker, improving the detection function of Siri's voice request during music playback.

Apple Music Voice on HomePod Mini

HomePod mini provides entertainment that can be enjoyed by everyone because it supports popular music distribution services such as Apple Music, Apple PodCast, Apple Music 1, which has won awards, and popular music distribution services such as Pandora and Deezer.

Apple Music offers more than 90 million songs, has the best music knowledge in the world, and has hundreds of playlists created exclusively for the Apple Music Voice plan, with a connoisseur that creates scenes, 25,000.There are episodes of exclusive radio programs and other original content.

With the advent of this new subscription type, more people will be able to handle this wonderful catalog by just asking Siri.

Ultimate smart speaker for iPhone users

Whether you are listening to music or Podcast, or when you answer the phone, you can take over the audio seamlessly without interruption, just by approaching the iPhone to HomePod mini.

In the iPhone equipped with U1, when the sound is transferred from the device to another device, it has a visual, hearing and tactile effect that makes the device feel physically connected.A magical experience is realized.

If you haven't played anything with HomePod mini, bring your iPhone closer to your speaker, and your listening proposal will be automatically displayed on the iPhone screen, and you can control quickly without unlocking the iPhone.

Powerful and smart assistant

HomePod mini, equipped with a wise Siri, is personalized by iPhone customers and gives a deeply linked experience.Siri recognizes up to six families, adjusting music and Podcasts according to their liking, responding to personal requests such as messages, reminders, memos, calendars, and responding to personal requests such as telephone sending and responding.can do.

Siri can also provide users a personal update so that the brief outline of the day can be understood.You can hear the latest news, weather, traffic information, reminders, and calendars by requesting Siri, "What kind of day is it today?"

A simple smart home control

HomePod mini can easily control smart home accessories, such as lighting, adjusting room temperature, locking doors, setting scenes, and operating device at the specified time with a simple voice command to Siri.

In addition, users can talk directly to various smart home accessories that are compatible with Siri, and have them helped by hands -free.

With the intercom function, you can easily connect at home.In another room, in a specific area, or in multiple rooms in the house, when a user sends an intercom message from one HomePod mini to another HomePod mini, it automatically plays with the HomePod mini specified by the audio message.。

The intercom function is compatible with iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, AirPods, CarPlay, so everyone in the family, on the way back, or from the go, receives Intercom notifications.You can send a com message.

Design with privacy and security consideration

In HomePod Mini, the word "Hey Siri" is locally recognized on the device, or the information is not sent to the Apple server until the user starts Siri by touching.

The request is not associated with the user's Apple ID, and personal information is not used for Apple's advertising purposes or sold to other organizations.

HomePod mini does not know the information on Apple because it processes messages and memo requests on devices in cooperation with the iPhone.

Other features

Expansion of the voice recognition function of multiple users: From the latter half of this year, the response to the speech recognition function of multiple users by Siri will be expanded to all areas where HomePod mini is available, so everyone in the family has their own preference.You will be able to enjoy music that suits you, access your playlists, and use personal requests.

Automatic adjustment of Siri volume: Siri automatically adjusts the amount of voice in HomePod mini according to the indoor environment and the voice volume of the user.

Village Siri's voice option: In the United States, Siri can use more diverse audio options (English), so users can choose the voice to talk to themselves immediately when setting the device first.

Improve the sound of Apple TV 4K: Pairing HomePod mini with Apple TV 4K will achieve a powerful sound experience that is faithful to the original sound and original sound.Using computational audio, HomePod mini always analyzes audio and models performance, providing clearly clear dialogue.

Apple TV control: Siri and HomePod mini can operate Apple TV in a new way.For example, you can ask Siri to turn on the Apple TV, start a TV program or movie, and control playback.

Funny sound: In HomePod mini, if you ask Siri to reproduce the sound of various animals, instruments, and vehicles, you will play a fun and faithful sound.

A new way to control the smart home device: Siri can control the smart home accessories at the specified time, so Siri can turn off after 10 minutes or turn on the entrance lighting at sunset.

"Search": If you ask Siri in HomePod mini, you can identify the place to identify the location of the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, Apple Watch, or AirTag you have forgotten.

Regarding prices and sales, HomePod mini has yellow, orange and blue in addition to white and space gray, and Apple..COM/STORE/JP, Apple Store application, Apple Store directly managed store for 11,880 yen (tax included).

HomePod mini can be purchased by Apple authorized dealers and some telecommunications operators (prices may vary depending on the dealer).

Japan, Australia, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States can purchase HomePod mini in November.

Related information: https: // www.Apple.com/jp/

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