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HomePod mini

£99 FROM Apple, apple.com/uk FEATURES S5 chip, AirPlay 2, full-range drive with dual passive radiators, 360° sound, 4x microphones for far-field Siri, stereo pair capable, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0, Thread network tech, Ultra-wideband chip, 97.9x84.3mm

They say a week is a long time in politics. If so, then three years is a lifetime in tech, something that feels particularly true for Apple’s HomePod. The £279 smart speaker was announced in 2017, arrived in 2018 to a flurry of positive reviews about its incredible sound quality and then more or less sank without a trace, overwhelmed by a tsunami of cheaper, inferior-sounding speakers featuring Amazon’s Alexa

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