{"id":245800,"date":"2018-01-23T16:56:01","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T14:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=245800"},"modified":"2018-01-23T16:58:34","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T14:58:34","slug":"apple-homepod-speaker-launch-date-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/245800-apple-homepod-speaker-launch-date-set.html","title":{"rendered":"Apple HomePod speaker launch date set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple will start taking online orders for its HomePod smart speaker from 26 January, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-apple-homepod\/apple-launches-homepod-smart-speaker-sales-from-january-26-idUSKBN1FC1SX\">Reuters reported<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The device was originally set to release in the US during December for $349.<\/p>\n<p>The HomePod is around seven inches high and features seven beam-forming tweeters, each with its own driver.\u00a0The tweeters have precision acoustic horns, and directional horns.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker also has a 4-inch upward-facing woofer with a dynamic equaliser to ensure the sound is free from distortion.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gadgets\/238610-why-apples-homepod-lost-out-to-the-amazon-echo.html\">Why Apple&#8217;s HomePod lost out to the Amazon Echo<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple will reportedly start taking online orders for its HomePod this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":214094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[605,43696],"class_list":["post-245800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gadgets","tag-apple","tag-apple-homepod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245800"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245804,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245800\/revisions\/245804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}