HomePod will be available in mainland China and Hong Kong starting Friday

Following HomePod’s launch inwards the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, United Mexican States in addition to Spain, Apple announced yesterday that the Siri-powered wireless speaker volition last available inwards mainland China in addition to Hong Kong starting this coming Friday, Jan 18.

According to the company, the New Artist of the Week plan on Apple Music provides novel talent amongst a prominent platform across greater China for their travel to last discovered.

Since launching inwards 2015, Apple Music has featured the debut releases of pop novel artists coming from all over Asia, amongst music spanning a broad multifariousness of genres in addition to languages. New artists from mainland China include Corsak, Chace, Lucie Cheung, Gong, Dean Ting in addition to Lu Xianghui.

Popular playlists include The A-List International Pop, Today’s Hits, Best of the Week, The A-List Mandopop in addition to Mandopop Replay, containing recent Mandopop hits from the by v years.

With AirPlay 2, HomePod supports stereo pairing in addition to multi-room good which permits you lot to simultaneously post perfectly synced good to multiple HomePods, Apple TVs, AirPlay-compatible Smart TVs in addition to other AirPlay speakers. Apple’s mentioned a few AirPlay-supported apps, including QQ Music, DeDao, iHuman Story, Dragonfly FM in addition to Penguin FM inwards mainland China, every bit good every bit Spotify, KKBOX, JOOX in addition to Podcast inwards Hong Kong.

HomePod features an Apple-designed woofer for deep, build clean bass along amongst an array of 7 beam-forming tweeters that render high frequency acoustics amongst directional control. Similar to Amazon’s Echo, a built-in array of vi microphones ensures HomePod understands you lot fifty-fifty when it’s playing music at loud volume.

Marketing boss Phil Schiller was quoted every bit saying:

HomePod is the perfect wireless speaker for music lovers. It delivers an unmatched music listening sense amongst high-fidelity good wherever it is placed in addition to creates a novel vogue to abide by in addition to interact amongst music using Siri.

We’re excited to pick out HomePod to our customers inwards mainland China in addition to Hong Kong markets. We can’t await for them to sense how nifty it sounds inwards their home, nosotros mean value they are going to dearest it.

HomePod is likewise a HomeKit hub that appears every bit an good root inwards the Home app on your iOS device or Mac, in addition to every bit such tin last used inwards your custom automation scenes.

HomePod is available inwards White in addition to Space Gray. The speaker requires whatever iOS device from iPhone 5s, iPad Pro, iPad Air, iPad mini ii or the sixth-generation iPod touching onward.

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