The New Apple TV 4K, With an A19 Chip and Siri AI, Also Arrives Friday at $299
MacRumors said the fourth-generation set-top box, announced Oct. 13 and on preorder since mid-October, adds Find My on an updated Siri Remote, 128GB of storage, and four-speaker surround sound with HomePod mini 2.
By the Bay Area Brief staff · Edited by Seamus McKenna · · 3 min read
Downtown San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley from the hills. Photo: Michael from San Jose, California, USA / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 (cropped, resized and color-graded). Archive photo of the area; not a photo of the events in this story.
Apple is scheduled to start selling a fourth-generation Apple TV 4K on Friday, November 13, the same day as HomeView, MacRumors reported, citing the company’s mid-October announcement and preorder listing.
The new model adds Siri AI, an A19 chip, an updated Siri Remote with Find My, and support for four-speaker surround sound with HomePod mini 2, according to MacRumors. It comes with 128GB of storage and is priced at $299. Both the Apple TV 4K and HomeView were announced on Oct. 13 alongside the HomePod mini 2, which launched Oct. 30, the site said. Preorders have been open since mid-October.
This account follows MacRumors’ reporting of Apple’s product pages and announcement. An official Apple Newsroom URL for the TV model did not load in this newsroom’s check, so specifications here are attributed to MacRumors.
Sources
This article is an original summary based on the following reporting. We encourage readers to visit the original sources for full coverage.
The day's Bay Area housing, business and neighborhood news, plus the world headlines that matter, in one short email. Free, and you can unsubscribe anytime.
We use your email only to send the Brief. Details in our privacy policy.
Cupertino-based Apple announced a new iPad mini with a larger 8.5-inch OLED display, an A20 Pro chip, water and dust resistance and a landscape front camera. It starts at $699, with preorders on Oct. 28.
Apple's 27.2 updates landed Monday. Siri AI can now recall past conversations and now works in French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish, though it still isn't available in the EU or mainland China.
Google said the Gemini app is rolling out globally on Apple CarPlay starting Wednesday, letting iPhone users talk with Gemini Live from the car display after earlier support on Android Auto.
The new gemini-decision-1 model scores up to 1,000 closed-set questions on one multimodal input in a single pass, Google said, with 150-250 millisecond end-to-end latency and no output tokens billed.
