Apple HomePod (second generation)

You’ll be tied into Apple’s ecosystem, but why worry about that when the sound is this good?

SCORE PRICE £249 (£299 inc VAT) from apple.com/uk The second-generation Apple HomePod is exactly the smart speaker you’d expect from Apple: conscientiously premium, beautifully designed and packing innovative tech you won’t find elsewhere. It’s also exclusive in some undesirable ways and not always as useful as you might expect. How you feel about it will depend, first, on whether you’re an iPhone user and, second, how much you’re willing to pay for exceptional sound. The design is minimalist and undeniably stylish, with a rounded barrel shape finished in white or black fabric, capped by an illuminated panel at the top. This is less a screen than a touch panel/ambient colour display, with multi-hued clouds appearing to show activity, and a series of taps to pause/resume playback, adjust the volume, dismiss alarms, skip tracks…

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