Apple’s original smart speaker is back – and better than ever

> £299 FROM apple.com/uk FEATURES 4-inch high-excursion woofer, 5x horn-loaded tweeters, 4x microphones for far-field Siri, multi-room audio with AirPlay, Spatial Audio, Bluetooth 5.0, Wi-Fi 4 (802.11n), Thread, Ultra Wideband chip, 168x142mm, 2.3kg

The HomePod delivers your tunes with real gusto, sounding loud and punchy

Pair two HomePods together and you can use them as right and left speakers in your home setup.

Like the follow-up to the first Stone Roses album, HomePod aficionados had almost given up on its second coming following Apple’s ditching of it in 2021; its focus shifting to the HomePod mini instead. Only now we have this; the all-new second-gen HomePod and, boy, was it worth the wait.