Amazon Echo (4th Gen) vs Apple HomePod mini

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Echo (4th Gen) compared with HomePod mini

	AmazonEcho (4th Gen)	AppleHomePod mini
Overview
Released
Released	October 2020	November 2020
Sound
Type
Type	Speaker	Speaker
Channels
Channels	Stereo	–
Dolby Atmos
Dolby Atmos	No	No
Drivers
Drivers	One 3.0″ (76.2 mm) upward-firing neodymium woofer and two 0.8″ (20 mm) tweeters	Full-range driver and dual passive radiators, with a custom acoustic waveguide for a 360° sound field
Audio formats
Audio formats	Dolby processing for stereo sound	–
Room tuning
Room tuning	Automatically senses the room's acoustics and adjusts playback	Computational audio for real-time tuning
Connections
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi	Yes	Yes
Bluetooth
Bluetooth	Yes	No
AirPlay
AirPlay	No	Yes
Voice assistants
Voice assistants	Alexa	Siri
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi	Dual-band Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac (2.4 and 5 GHz); eero Built-in mesh extender; Zigbee, Matter and Thread border router; Amazon Sidewalk	802.11n Wi-Fi; Thread; Ultra Wideband chip for device proximity
Bluetooth
Bluetooth	A2DP (to and from the speaker) and AVRCP; direct control of Bluetooth Low Energy Mesh devices	Bluetooth 5.0 (RTINGS found no Bluetooth audio playback)
Ports
Ports	Power; 3.5 mm audio jack (The Verge)	Power only (20 W adapter included)
Streaming
Streaming	Amazon Music, Apple Music, Spotify and others through Alexa; Bluetooth	AirPlay from iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Mac; Apple Music, Apple Podcasts, third-party music services, TuneIn and UK radio stations by voice
Multi-room
Multi-room	Multi-room music with compatible Echo devices; stereo pair with a second Echo; home cinema with a compatible Fire TV	Multi-room audio with AirPlay; stereo pair with a second HomePod mini
App
App	Alexa app (Fire OS, Android and iOS)	Home app on iPhone or iPad
Design
Weight
Weight	0.97 kg	0.345 kg (better)
Controls
Controls	Buttons for volume up, volume down, microphone off and action (The Verge); AZ1 Neural Edge processor	Backlit touch surface (tap to play or pause, double-tap to skip, triple-tap to skip back, touch and hold for Siri, + and – for volume)
Microphones
Microphones	Button disconnects the microphones	Four-microphone design for far-field Siri
Size
Size	144 × 144 × 133 mm	84.3 mm high, 97.9 mm wide
Colours
Colours	Charcoal, Glacier White, Twilight Blue	White, Yellow, Orange, Blue, Midnight
In the box
In the box	Echo (4th Gen), 30 W power adapter, quick start guide	HomePod mini, 20 W power adapter, documentation