Apple announced an all-new home product a month ago, and it’s now starting to arrive to customers. It’s Friday, November 13, in Australia and New Zealand, which means it’s the HomeView launch day.
Customers who pre-ordered Apple’s new home hub will soon be sharing pictures and first impressions on the MacRumors forums, Reddit, Instagram, and other social media networks. If you got a HomeView, let us know what you think in the comments below.
Apple sees HomeView as the center of the home, and functionally, it’s a cross between a small iPad and a HomePod. It has a 7-inch square display and the tabletop model has a speaker base, though there’s also a wall-mount version.
With a camera and voice recognition, it can identify up to six people in a home, showing personal information customized to each user. There is no HomeView App Store, but it has pre-installed Apple apps and can show widgets from your iPhone. It can be used for making video calls, watching videos, viewing calendar events, getting the weather, listening to music, and controlling smart home devices.
It is built around Siri AI, Apple’s smarter voice assistant that debuted in iOS 27. The HomeView is priced at $299, but if you want the wall-mounted version, you need to buy extra mounting hardware.
There are no Apple Stores in New Zealand, so customers in Australia will be the first to walk into an Apple Store to purchase the new device. We are not expecting shortages.
The new Apple TV 4K is also launching on November 13, and it can be purchased for $299. The latest Apple TV has an A19 chip, 128GB of storage, Wi-Fi 7 support, and the option to connect four HomePods for surround sound. It also supports Siri AI.
HomeView is launching in Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, the UK, and the United States. It is not available in the European Union because Siri AI is unavailable.
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