Facebook Portal Plus - Smart Video Calling 15.6” Touch Screen Display with Alexa - Black

Great product, video calling my friends is fun, specially when my mom and my sister live far away

For many of you the reason why you buy this is for an easy way to do a Facebook LIVE but now they have removed that app and you cant even use it for the reason why it was made. I contacted PORTAL, which has now separated off from Facebook and they said it wasnt their department. Ive tried reaching out to Facebook but they have not replied. if you buy it for ZOOM or for Workplaces then go for it, but the main reason why most people buy this device it can no longer provide that service. If I could return it I would!

I bought it for my grandma, now she can see pictures of the whole family and all the kids can upload photos anytime via Facebook, we can video call her via Facebook or whatsapp any time and it is great for her!! I love it.

Excellent, we love our Portal plus. The camera is sharp and the sound is great. I use it for meetings and calling family and friends. The packaging is excellent, it protected the portal so well and very sleek design. it came with no damage at all. I highly recommend this product

Aside from the amazing video and audio quality, I love the zoom in/out feature which follows my children’s movement around the room. An amazing investment!!

Does require reasonable upload speed in order for picture quality to be good (say 5MB+ or so). If you or the other user has DSL, picture quality will be bad.

Ive been with my momma for a number of months helping her to transition to a retirement community & working through some medical challenges. Ive been in the habit of tucking her in each night. Now its time for me to go home. I purchased this so that we can connect each night at bedtime. I especially love how it is voice controlled. All she has to do is tell it to call me. I got the biggest size so that its more life size... This will bring us both a lot of comfort, connectedness. Night times can be a challenge for her, this will help so much cuz Im just a video call away!

Cannot make calls to a computer without installing messenger first, unlike current way where you can without issues, also, even after installing it, they will keep getting the call on their phone instead of the computer. Also called to a tablet, and seems rotation wasnt working, tried multiple times and kept having issues, returning it, seems a great idea, but far from mature :( Added a picture of how it looks on a tablet. Update: I kept it and bought one for my mom, seems thats gonna be the only way to check how it works when you call portal to portal, seems calling a phone or a tablet is not the ideal way to use this, I was hoping it would just call any other messenger no matter where it was installed (PC/tablet) without issues, so far not that good, not ideal to buy a portal to each one of the people I wanna talk to, but at least will try it, I was expecting something better than Skype, but not so far. I like the video and sound of the device, not that many apps so far, but as I saw it advertised, I think it is more focused to be a video chat approach like Skype, will try with 2 portals and see how it works.

I love the way the camera follows you around. I bought one for my daughter also, and she can carry on a conversation while preparing her dinner. Its almost like being in the same room with her. The picture quality is great. I also like that I can have it show me the news if I miss it on television.

Love the size for video calls. Easy to see everyone in the room. Video calls are nice quality. Love it for talking to kids that are far away. Hate that can’t rename Alexa on this device ( grandsons name is Alex - makes it difficult to say his name, also it picks up to many cues from the tv ). Difficult to adjust volume for Alexa. Either too loud or too quiet. Strange as it is fine for video calls. Sometimes it overhears something and makes calls out of the blue. I keep the microphone and camera off and covered unless using. For video calls I would give it five stars. Love it for that.