Apple HomeView Smart Hub to Ship in Mid-November in Four Colors

Apple’s all-new smart home hub, the HomeView, will ship around mid-November, roughly a month after its unveiling at Apple’s " Welcome home " October 13 event, according to Bloomberg ‘s Mark Gurman. HomeView concept image Writing in the latest edition of his Power On newsletter, Gurman said the HomeView, "at least as of now," will follow the launch of the new Apple TV 4K and new HomePod mini models, which will arrive to customers and in stores on October 30. The HomeView will be positioned as the Siri command center of an Apple-powered home, pairing a display with an A18 chip.

It will come in two versions, including a countertop model with a metal speaker base, offered in space gray, silver, starlight and pink, and a wall-mounted version with a flat, square base, limited to space gray and silver. The HomeView will offer better sound quality than the new HomePod mini, according to Gurman. The device is controlled primarily by voice, though its screen supports touch input.

It supports a limited selection of Apple applications, and there will be no dedicated App Store for it. The HomeView name first appeared in a trademark filing by a shell company, a discovery reported on Friday by and credited by Gurman. The "view" part of the name reportedly reflect how the device is meant to be used, in the sense that it’s a display that people look at and control mainly with their voice.

Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman today reported that the Apple home hub – set to be announced on October 13 as part of Apple’s ‘Welcome home’ event experience — will be called the HomeView. The brand would obviously sit alongside the company’s existing HomePod brand for smart speakers.

Gurman also reported on a few other new tidbits for the device, including the news that while it will be announced on Tuesday, it probably won’t be released until the middle of November … more…. Report: Apple ‘HomeView’ smart home hub will ship in November, come in four colors, A18 chip.

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