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Apple HomePod: The 3 best Alternatives

  • Mar 18, 2024
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The HomePod is the first smartspeaker, you can use Apple's voice assistant Siri. However, there are a number of Alternatives that work with your iOS devices. The three best Alternatives, we introduce you to here.

The classic HomePod-Alternative: Amazon Echo

The Amazon Echo laid the Foundation for an entirely new set of technology products: the so-called Smart speakers. Equipped with the in-house voice assistant Alexa, the Echo has mastered an impressive amount of commands and is likely to be so until today, is the first choice for many users.

  • The voice control Alexa is pretty Mature and can respond to various questions and tasks. For knowledge questions, Alexa will consult mostly Wikipedia, also, you can add a App additional skills, English Skills called.
  • Of course, you can use the Amazon Echo as a wireless speaker. The quality ranges from a quiet background sound, crisp bass, you may not expect. In contrast to the HomePod, you can play music from Spotify, which is likely to be for many users, a major plus point.
  • The Amazon you get in different versions. The cheapest variant starts at a price of 99 euros and therefore costs only a fraction of the HomePods. The small Amazon Echo Dot, the via Bluetooth or the AUX with stand-alone speakers, it costs only 49 Euro. You want to have a good integrated sound, you can the Echo Plus for 149 euros grab.
Alternative for Apple HomePod: Amazon Echo
(Image: Amazon)

Google Home - Best Voice Assistant

Google has launched the Google Home own Smart Speaker on the market with both Android as well as iOS devices compatible.

  • The voice control of Google, it turns out that in many Tests as very Mature. Here is the small Speaker has the nose in front of Alexa and Siri.
  • The built-in speaker in the Google Home offer like the Amazon Echo for a quiet background music, and even play a little clearer. Playback of Spotify is also on Board. To the sound quality of the HomePod is also the Google Home not but.
  • 149 Euro you have to be for the Google Home put on the table. He costs as much as the best Amazon Echo, but still less than half of Apple's HomePod. When you purchase you can choose between the colors Black, brown, grey and rose. The paper is White in all cases.
Google Home with a good voice assistant
(Image: Google)

An Alternative to the HomePod: Sonos unites Alexa and Siri

You want to definitely use the Apple voice control Siri, you are not set nevertheless on the HomePod. The Smart Speaker by Sonos, you can control both Alexa as well as with Siri. Which wizard you want to use, you decide, respectively, spontaneously over the response.

  • Thanks to Alexa, you have in the Sonos devices, a tried and true voice control on Board. The reliably fulfilled the most important tasks and can even per App expand. Siri you may have to use in addition, to iOS for this, but a device with the Speaker connected.
  • Of course, you can also use the Sonos Smart Speaker as a wireless speaker. You can buy several of the devices, to connect them and in the apartment to distribute. As the playback sources of the classical services such as Spotify, Apple, Music and co. can use. Also the Sound from the Video-Streaming services such as Netflix or YouTube, you can easily transfer.
  • The most popular Smart Speaker by Sonos is currently the Sonos One. 205 Euro you have to pay currently for the device.
Sonos One: Siri and Alexa integrated
(Image: Amazon/Sonos)

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