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Smart home devices combining a touchscreen with voice-assistant and hub functions, used for media, control of connected devices, and video calls.
Apple's wall-mounted HomeView ships without a power adapter and needs 20W USB-C power, while the tabletop box includes a 30W adapter. Both versions cost $299, so a $59 mount, per 9to5Mac, lifts the wall unit to $358 before any adapter or cable.
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HomeView, Apple's $300 hub, has twice the RAM of Amazon's $180 Echo Show 8 and a smaller 7-inch screen. The extra $120 buys silicon and memory, while Pocket-lint's spec list gives the Echo the larger display and a Zigbee radio.
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports Apple's smart home hub has a square 6-inch display, no battery and no buttons, in countertop and wall-mounted versions. HomeKit teams should plan for a shared screen that stays at its outlet and serves whoever walks up.
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Apple's smart home hub, reportedly due October 13, may come in Silver, Space Gray, Starlight or Rose Pink, according to the leaker pdfu. Accessory makers can plan around its looks from the leaks so far, but what it will control has not been reported.
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MindBase runs its own inference on an in-house LLM, which is how Anker gets to promise no monthly fee. The cameras that feed it are orderable now, while the hub still carries no price and no ship date.
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Ternus told his first keynote as chief executive that the ideal AI device already exists. The hub Apple insiders expected instead has been waiting on an assistant Apple leases from Google and cannot yet sell in the EU.
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Bloomberg reports that Apple's square smart display is being tested in employees' homes and could be announced as soon as next month. Its front-facing camera personalizes the screen for whoever is looking at it.
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Ugreen's three-tier hub line tops out at a Jetson Thor box rated up to 2,070 TOPS. Its cheapest model charges roughly seven times more per TOPS than that flagship does. All three are currently half price.
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