Apple does not abandon the idea of a premium speaker in its catalog and the new HomePod with a better processor and better sound would be ready to be sold in 2023.
Gurman said it, and when he says something, you have to listen to him. The new HomePod will arrive in 2023, and it will do so with a very similar appearance to the current one, with the S8 processor, the same that will bring the new Apple Watch Series 8 that we will see later this year. This S8 processor will be very similar to the S6, as is already the case with the S7 processor of the current Apple Watch Series 7. To get an idea, the HomePod mini’s processor is the S5, and the S6 is 20% more powerfulso the S8, while it looks like it, will be a huge improvement on the second-gen HomePod.
The new HomePod, internally dubbed the B620, will have the same S8 processor as the upcoming Apple Watch s8 series, and will be more like the original HomePod in size and sound quality than the HomePod mini. It will also have a new screen at the top which might even have multi-touch functionality.
Just because it’s closer to the original HomePod than the HomePod mini in sound quality doesn’t mean it has the same sound quality as the original HomePod. The new S8 processor, much more powerful than the A8 of the original HomePod, can give it a good jump in quality on the speaker sound. Apple has allowed a small speaker like the HomePod mini to push the boundaries of its hardware in terms of sound quality thanks to the built-in S6 processor, so why not do the same with the new HomePod? Will there be different colors available? Will it be the same price as the original? We will have to wait until 2023 to see it.
