Apple has announced three novel colors for itsHomePod minismart speaker : blue , yellow , and orangish . The novel colors are useable immediately , and join the existing white and quad gray for a total of five color choice .
But raw HomePod mini colors is n’t the only audio announcement Apple made in its“Unleashed ” upshot on October 18 . There ’s also a brand new Apple Music level that ’s half the price of the individual plan .
The $5 Apple Music Voice Plan
Now , Apple is adding a young more affordable option . The Voice Plan costs $ 4.99 a month and is meant to be used with Siri as your only mean value of begin up new euphony . Apple will offer a spare trial that you may start entirely with Siri , by allege “ Hey Siri , start my Apple Music Voice trial . ”
Using Siri , you ’ll have accession to the full Apple Music catalogue of 90 million songs , play list , writing style stations , and wireless . You ’ll get the algorithmic personalized play list like Chill Mix , New Music Mix , and Get Up ! Mix , too , but you will believably not be able to make and preserve your own custom playlist .
To that end , Apple is adding one C of new mood and activity playlist optimise just for voice . You ’ll be able to say “ act as something chill ” or “ act the dinner party party playlist , ” for exercise . Apple Music already has many such playlists , but with a whole program build around Siri voice control , it needs to have hundreds more .
Apple Music ’s Modern $ 4.99 Voice Plan will be useable later this fall in 17 countries : Australia , Austria , Canada , China , France , Germany , Hong Kong , India , Ireland , Italy , Japan , Mexico , New Zealand , Spain , Taiwan , the United Kingdom , and the United States .
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What youdon’tget with the Voice Plan
In gain to drop out on the full app experience , with the power to browse the whole catalogue and create custom play list , Voice Plan user will miss out on a few other exchange premium feature . They wo n’t get Spatial Audio or Lossless Audio , ca n’t see words , and ca n’t watch euphony video .
