A month after their official unveiling at the Welcome Home event, Apple’s HomeView smart display and the new Apple TV 4K are now on sale.
The company is now also accepting preorders for the first products in its Home Collection, a lineup of co-branded smart home accessories built in partnership with LG and Schneider Home.
Apple’s first smart display goes on sale
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Apple sells the HomeView in two versions for the same $299 price: a tabletop model and a wall-mounted one. The wall-mounted HomeView needs a separate mounting kit, which starts at $59.95. So, if that’s the one you ordered, you will have to shell out extra to set it up.
The tabletop HomeView comes in silver, starlight, rose pink, and space gray colors, while the wall-mounted version is limited to silver and space gray.
Both HomeView models pack a 7-inch touchscreen and use Apple’s A18 chip. They can recognize up to six people in a household by face and switch to their personal home screen.
The tabletop model packs two full-range drivers, a downward-firing woofer and two passive radiators in its base. This allows it to deliver better sound quality than the wall-mounted unit. The latter only has two full-range drivers.
Siri AI is available on HomeView at launch, but in beta and only in English for now. Canadian French support will follow.
HomeView launches today in the US, U.K., Canada, Australia, India, New Zealand, Singapore and South Africa. It’s not available in the EU yet.
If you preordered HomeView back in October, your unit should be on its way or ready for pickup. And you can also find it on sale at Apple Stores and authorized resellers starting today.
Read: 7 Apple HomeView features and catches worth knowing
The new Apple TV 4K is faster, smarter and a lot pricier
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The fourth-gen Apple TV 4K is also in stores today. Debuting four years after its predecessor, it runs on the A19 chip. Apple claims it delivers up to 50% faster CPU performance and up to 2x faster graphics than the A15 Bionic-powered model it replaces.
The bigger change is Siri AI. The new Apple TV has three far-field microphones, so you can talk to Siri without picking up the remote. Apple says echo cancellation isolates your voice from whatever’s playing in the background.
Siri AI launches in English in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, India, New Zealand, Singapore and South Africa.
Other specs include Wi-Fi 7, Gigabit Ethernet, HDMI 2.1 and Bluetooth 6. The Siri Remote looks the same but adds Find My with Precision Finding and a built-in speaker. That means you can finally track it down when you can’t find it on your couch.
You can also build a four-speaker surround setup with HomePod mini 2 or second-gen HomePod pairs.
Unfortunately, the new Apple TV 4K comes with a steep price hike. There’s now only a single 128GB model, which is available for $299. That’s more than double the $129 starting price of the previous Apple TV 4K.
Apple’s first co-branded Home accessories open for preorder
Alongside the HomeView, Apple started accepting preorders for its smart home accessories in the Home Collection lineup. Made in partnership with LG and Schneider Home, they are meant to work closely with the HomeView and integrate seamlessly in your HomeKit setup.
Every Home Collection product pairs directly with the Home app. No LG account, no Schneider app, no extra cloud service to sign up for. They also support newer Apple Home features, like Adaptive Temperature on the thermostats.
The full lineup of products is as follows:
- LG Video Doorbell: $249.95
- LG Indoor Cam: $199.95
- LG Outdoor Cam: $299.95
- LG Floodlight Cam: $399.95
- LG Smart Deadbolt Lock: $349.95
- LG Smart Thermostat: $199.95
- Schneider Home Smart Thermostat: $199.95
Do note that preorders ship in December, with some accessories not arriving until early 2027.
Rajesh has been writing about consumer technology for over a decade, with a strong focus on iPhones, Macs and Apple’s ecosystem. He enjoys digging into Apple software updates, hardware changes, and discovering new Mac apps that make work faster and more enjoyable.
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