It’s certainly been a long time coming, but according to Mashable, it looks like Apple’s HomePod smart speaker will be available to the public within the next few days, based on the fact that it has just been approved for sale by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Meanwhile, 9to5 Mac...

9to5 Mac reports today that analysts at GBH Insights are saying that Apple’s HomePod smart speaker is finally due to launch within the next 4 to 6 weeks. However, GBH says that Apple faces an “uphill climb” in the crowded smart speaker field, for two reasons in particular. Firstly, GBH...

MacRumors reports that Bloomberg has revealed some surprising secrets about Apple’s forthcoming HomePod smart speaker, which, according to yesterday’s announcement by Apple has been delayed until next year. Judging by the Bloomberg piece, another delay is par for the course for this particular...

If you’ve been planning to buy Apple’s Siri-driven HomePod smart speaker this holiday season, then unfortunately you’re going to be disappointed, as Apple has announced today in the following statement that it has pushed the HomePod release date back to the beginning of 2018. When the HomePod...

According to a new report from Nikkei, via MacRumors, the rumoured supplier for Apple’s forthcoming HomePod smart speaker, Inventec Appliances, has hinted during an earnings press conference that the HomePod might be in short supply at launch. While Inventec Appliances president David Ho did...

BGR writes that developer Steven Troughton-Smith has found details about the iPhone 8’s virtual home button when digging around in the recently leaked HomePod firmware. Troughton-Smith has been doing amazing work uncovering secrets about the forthcoming iPhone 8 from the firmware code, and these...

MacRumors reports today that yet more information about the forthcoming iPhone 8 has been discovered by iHelp BR in the leaked HomePod firmware. According to iHelp BR, code in the firmware referring to “Pearl,” which is the Apple codename for the iPhone 8 facial recognition feature, also has...

The HomePod firmware continues to give up the goodies in terms of secrets about the forthcoming iPhone 8. 9to5 Mac reports that Guilherme Rambo has discovered evidence that the phone will support a new SmartCam scene-selection feature, with the code showing that the new camera app may use...

The HomePod firmware continues to reveal more juicy details about the forthcoming iPhone 8, with MacRumors reporting today on yet more secrets uncovered in the code by developer Steven Troughton-Smith. Most importantly, Troughton-Smith has seen no information whatsoever that might point to the...

As hard as Apple tries to keep details of the forthcoming iPhone 8 under wraps, there’s always someone resourceful enough to manage to unearth secrets in the strangest places. Over the weekend it was reported that developer Steven Troughton-Smith had found details about the HomePod’s LED matrix...

BGR writes that app developer Steven Troughton-Smith, who is known for digging around in code to find interesting snippets of information, has been up to his old tricks again and has discovered some code that reveals the possibility of the forthcoming HomePod having an LED matrix display...

So who's planning on buying the Apple HomePod when it comes out later this year?

9to5 Mac reports that Amazon’s senior VP of Devices, David Limp, has been talking about the threat, or not, to Amazon’s Echo from Apple’s newly announced HomePod. Talking to USA Today, Limp said that it should certainly be possible for Siri and Alexa to talk to each other, although he wasn’t...

Pretty much all the details about Apple’s new wireless smart speaker had already leaked ahead of time, but the company was still keeping us all guessing about the name. When Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing, Phil Schiller, announced that it would be called “HomePod” it was a...