Apple HomePod Mini orange

Apple liefert ein kleines Geschwisterchen zu seinem HomePod und macht damit Amazons Echo Dot und Googles Nest Mini Konkurrenz. Wir testen den kleinen Smart Speaker und zeigen dir, ob sich der HomePod mini für dich lohnt.

The HomePod Mini excels in the audio department despite its small stature, but it falls over in terms of connectivity - not just the smart devices it can control, but the smartphones and services it's compatible with.

If you’re a dedicated Apple and Siri user, the HomePod Mini makes for a solid choice, but if you’re willing to try Alexa or Google Assistant, there are better values out there.

A speaker this size just shouldn't sound as good as the Apple HomePod Mini does. With poise and balance, this speaker can handle everything you throw at it, delivering impressive room-filling volume, too. It's a decent smart speaker, too, controlling anything in your Home app with ease, while the new Thread hub lets you attach some smart peripherals directly. This speaker is still a little Apple centric, and it would be nice to have Spotify better integrated. That said, for £99, this smart speaker is brilliantly priced and sounds better than any of its similarly-priced competition.

The HomePod mini improves on the original HomePod in a lot of ways. Audio quality is very good for a $100 speaker, and Siri is a lot more capable than it was back in 2018. If you’re in Apple’s ecosystem and want a speaker that’s both tiny and sounds good, the HomePod mini is a solid option.