After many technology companies have entered the smart speaker market, there is news that Facebook is ready to go. It plans to release a smart speaker in May. However, according to the latest report, this product will be postponed until October this year.
According to Taiwan media, citing sources in the supply chain, Facebook's 2018 orders were cut by 20%, but remained unchanged in 2019. Previous reports said that Facebook will release smart speakers at the F8 conference in May, but After Facebook leaked the privacy scandal of users in the near future, this made Facebook have to slow down.
It is reported that Facebook has prepared a number of smart speaker products, one of which is codenamed Portal, which can perform face recognition through a wide-angle camera.
Finally, it is worth mentioning that the source also revealed that Apple also cut down the homePod half of the monthly orders from 500,000 units to 200,000 units.
