Our Overall Score:
8.8/10
Thanks for checking out our Apple HomePod review. We’re here to give you the best reviews of this product and hopefully leave you confident in whether Apple HomePod is the right product for you, or if there’s perhaps a better alternative out there for a product in the Audio Equipment category.
Latest price search at John Lewis & Partners: £199
The most important part of buying online can be to read reviews and that’s why you’re here. We’ve scanned the internet to find as many Apple HomePod reviews as we can, regardless if they’re good or bad as we want to give you the most truthful and realistic overview of just how good Apple HomePod is. In finding reviews, we discovered that the best and most informative reviews were from customers over at John Lewis & Partners, to read these review just tap on the View Reviews button now.
When it comes to buying products online, whether that’s a TV, clothes, Audio Equipment or even a something like a sofa, there are a general set of guidance or advice that you can follow to help you get the best product for your needs and also the best for your budget. As you can imagine there are tons of different options in the Audio Equipment category and even loads of options of products from Apple so it’s important to take the time to find the right one for you. The four areas that we want to delve in to a little more are the quality, the price of the product, what the reviews are saying about it and then finally we’ll look at an overall score which takes into account the other factors.
Quality of Apple HomePod
Apple HomePod scored an incredible 9.4/10 for quality.
As you’d expect with a lot of products, quality is a very important factor for choosing products in the “Audio Equipment” category. But it’s even more important to consider and get a feel for quality when you’re buying online because you aren’t given the benefit of being able to see and try the item for yourself.
This is of course why we can’t stress enough the importance of reading lots of reviews, as it will really help you to get a good feel for how good the quality is. A top tip when reading the reviews is to use the search function on your browser and search for the word “quality” in the reviews that way you can skip straight to customers that have mentioned about the quality of Apple HomePod.
Once you’ve had a good look over the reviews you’ll have a pretty good indication of how good the quality of Apple HomePod is, but we also have the following factors that you should consider to get an idea of the quality of the product you’re looking at.
- Price: It probably sounds obvious, but there are links to the price you pay and the quality of a product. Try and set your expectations for the quality based on your budget. You wouldn’t expect a Rolls-Royce for the price of a Fiesta so bear this in mind when shopping.
- Specification: It’s a really good idea to look over the product description and specification section of the website, for Apple HomePod you can read the full details on the John Lewis & Partners website where it will give you all the detail you need. It’s useful as you’ll probably already have a good idea of the sort of specs that make good Audio Equipment. Also compare these specs to other similar products that are in the same price bracket.
- Brand: Apple are obviously a strong and recognisable brand for making great Audio Equipment, so you’d expect Apple HomePod to deliver to these expectations. But always consider the brand when you’re thinking about the quality of the product you’re going to buy, and where quality is an important factor to you, look only at those well known brands (of course only if your budget allows).
- Your experience with Audio Equipment: You’ll no doubt have some history with buying Audio Equipment, and you may have even bought products from the same brand, Apple, use this information to your advantage. You’ll probably have a good idea of how good the quality of the product was and any faults or floors you remember from it.
Price analysis of Apple HomePod
Apple HomePod scored highly with 8.7/10 for price in our review.
Price, a hugely important part of any purchase. Price becomes even more of a consideration when we’re shopping online because it’s so amazingly simple to compare the price of several retailers in literally just a few clicks. In fact you don’t even need to do that, we’ve run price comparisons for you in order to find the best price. The lowest price we’ve managed to find Apple HomePod for is just £199 over at John Lewis & Partners.
There’s a lot of geeky analysis to be done on price, but what we find most effective and informative is to look at 3 different figures when comparing products and that is the average price, the most expensive and the cheapest. This gives you a really good feel for what the normal product would cost but also giving you an idea of just how cheap you can find it or the opposite, just how expensive some are. It’s also useful to look at the average of the products that fit in the same category as well as products from the same brand. So we’re going to look in more detail now at the price of Apple HomePod.
Prices of products in the Audio Equipment category
We thought it would be useful to spend a bit of time exploring the price of Apple HomePod and seeing how it compares to other similar products. And also seeing how much variance there are in prices of products in the Audio Equipment category. To do this we looked at all of the products over at John Lewis & Partners, there were a total of 74 products in the Audio Equipment, and of these 74 products the average price was £436.51, making Apple HomePod below average at £199. We also looked at the cheapest option in the same category which was just £14.99 whilst the most expensive was £3499.99. So you can see there’s a huge variance in the price of products in this category, as an indication there were 147 products less expensive and 82 more expensive than Apple HomePod in this category. So we thought it would be worth going into a bit more detail and looking at the prices of products from Apple.
Prices of products from Apple
So the average price of the 153 products available from Apple was £273.24, making £199 below average against the other products from the same brand. With the most expensive product from them coming in at £4899.00 and the cheapest at £7.49. We thought a good next step would be to look more specifically at products from Apple that fit in to the category of Audio Equipment rather than looking at all their products.
Of the 1 products from Apple in the Audio Equipment category, the average price is £199.00 making Apple HomePod below average at £199. Again we looked at how much price can vary and found that the cheapest product to fit this criteria was £199.00 and the most expensive was £199.00 so there are again a lot of varying prices with the products. In fact to be precise we found 0 products from Apple that were more expensive and 0 that were cheaper.
Reviews of Apple HomePod
Apple HomePod scores 8.3/10 for customer reviews.
Reviews are really the most valuable part of your online shopping, they’re giving you the next best thing to being able to actually try the product for yourself. You’re not relying on a manufacturers sales description telling you just how good their product is, you’re getting genuine feedback from actual users of the product. We can’t stress enough how important it is that you spend some time reading the reviews of Apple HomePod over at John Lewis & Partners, click on the “view reviews” button now to read them.
Below is a video we found for Apple HomePod over on YouTube.
Overall score
Apple HomePod got an amazing overall score of 8.8/10 in our review.
This figure takes into account the various criteria that we’ve covered above, the price, the quality and the customer reviews, in order to give you an overall score. This overall score of 8.8/10 then gives you a really easy figure to use for comparison purposes if you’re then going on to read any of our other reviews of Audio Equipment.
As you’ve already seen in the pricing section there are absolutely loads of different options from Apple so take your time to read the reviews, do your homework on setting a budget and seeing how the price of Apple HomePod stacks up against your budget and make sure you also set yourself a list of “must-haves” so you know that this product ticks all your boxes.
More info: Apple HomePod
- Brand: Apple
- Model Number:
- EAN: 190198504517
- Description: Stupendous sound with powerful bass from a beautifully compact speaker Awe-inspiring choice of music with Apple Music Siri is your on-call assistant at home Control your smart home devices Simple, instant set up HomePod is a breakthrough speaker that senses its location and tunes the music to sound amazing wherever you are in the room. Together with Apple Music, it gives you access to over 45 million songs. And with the intelligence of Siri, it’s a helpful home assistant for everyday tasks, and for controlling your smart home accessories; all with just your voice. Welcome HomePod. Audio by Apple With a precision-designed speaker system, Apple audio tech and advanced software powered by Apple’s A8 chip, you’ll get supreme sound wherever you place it. Bass is deep and rich while mids and trebles are brilliantly detailed. It senses its location and optimises settings for amazing, immersive audio wherever you are in the room. The HomePod sound rocks the house. Apple Music & Easy Streaming With Apple Music (subscription required) you have access to over 45 million songs, virtually every song you could think of. And by voice interacting with Siri, it learns your tastes and can help you discover great new music. Friends connected to your Wi Fi network can stream their music straight to your HomePod. And you can also AirPlay other content from iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV and Mac. Hey Siri, play 90s hip-hop Hey Siri, play TED Talks Daily podcast Airplay 2 for Multi-room Music With Airplay 2 you can link up multiple HomePods or other Airplay 2 compatible speakers to enjoy multi-room music. Play different songs in different rooms in the house or the same track throughout the home. Or tell Siri to move the song from one speaker to another as you move about the house. Assistant at Home As well as playing music, the HomePod can keep you up to date with news, traffic, sport and weather. It can set reminders and tasks and send messages. All with just your voice. Hey Siri, remind me to water the plants Hey Siri, add apples to the shopping list Activate your Smart Home It can help you control your smart home too; a wide range of smart home accessories are compatible with Apple’s HomeKit platform. Just add the device to the Home app on your iOS device to get started. Automatic Set-up Just plug in the HomePod and your iOS device will detect it. Its array of six beamforming microphones is precision tuned to hear your voice with ease, even over loud music. Aesthetic Design Wrapped in a seamless mesh fabric designed to enhance acoustics and aesthetics, the HomePod is an icon of functional minimalism that fits anywhere. Tap the top of HomePod to play, pause, skip songs or adjust volume, and touch and hold to talk to Siri. System requirements : iPhone 5s or later, iPad Pro, iPad (5th generation), iPad Air or later, iPad mini 2 or later, or iPod touch (6th generation) running iOS 11.2.5 or later 802.11 Wi‚ÄëFi Internet access Apple Music subscription for full music functionality Click here to learn more… Siri works with Apple Music. Subscription required for Apple Music. Only HomeKit-enabled devices can be controlled by HomePod. Not all features are available in all areas. Features and product availability are subject to change. A Smart Speaker is a platform that can run 3rd party Apps. 3rd party content providers may remove Apps from the Smart platform or stop supporting them at any time, and we cannot guarantee an App’s availability. When new Smart products are launched, there may also be a delay before certain Apps become available. Availability of Apps is not included within the terms of the manufacturer’s warranty, or the John Lewis 2-year Guarantee for audio visual products, or the 5-year Guarantee for TVs.
- Product ID: 23236810913
- Category: Electricals > Hi-Fi, Audio & Speakers > Speakers
- Colour: Space Grey
