Facebook Portal Mini – Smart Video Calling 8” Touch Screen Display with Alexa – Black
$164.48
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Portal Mini from Facebook is smart video calling with Alexa Built-in. Easily video call friends and family on their smartphones and tablets with Messenger or WhatsApp, even if they don’t have Portal. Enjoy an effortless video calling experience for large groups with Messenger Rooms, which lets you start or join calls of up to 50 people. Smart Camera pans and zooms to keep up with the action, and automatically adjusts to keep everyone in view. Smart Sound enhances the voice of whoever is talking, while minimizing background noise. Portal is private by design and all calls are encrypted. You can easily disable the camera and microphone, or block the camera lens with a single switch. Experience even more together with the ever-growing AR experiences library on Portal. Become some of your children’s favorite storybook characters with Story Time, where well-loved tales come to life with music, animation and immersive effects. Display your Instagram and Facebook photos directly to your Portal with the mobile app. You can even share photos during calls. With Alexa Built-in, you can ask a question, set a timer, add items to your shopping list, control your smart home and more. Facebook Live makes it easy to broadcast hands-free to family, friends and fans. With additional account activations, you can enjoy music, videos, news, games and more from our growing list of partners including Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio and the Food Network. You can also work smarter from home with partners like Zoom and Workplace from Facebook.Portal needs a wireless internet connection and AC power. Screen images simulated. User experience may vary. Additional registration, terms and fees may apply.
Easily video call with friends and family using your Messenger or WhatsApp account, even if they don’t have Portal.
Keep up with the action. Smart Camera automatically pans and zooms, keeping everyone in frame while you move and talk freely.
Hear and be heard. Smart Sound enhances your voice while minimizing unwanted background noise.
Easily disable the camera and microphone, or block the camera lens with a single switch. All Portal video calls are encrypted.
See and do more with Alexa Built-in. Control your smart home, listen to your favorite music, watch the news, get the weather, set a timer and more.
Enjoy all the features on our most compact device. With an 8” display, Portal Mini feels at home anywhere.
Become some of your children’s favorite storybook characters as you read along to well-loved tales with music, animation and immersive AR effects.
Listen to your favorite music and streaming apps like Spotify or Pandora, display your photos from Instagram and Facebook, broadcast with Facebook Live, and more.
Work smarter from home with partners like Zoom and Workplace from Facebook. Connect with co-workers even if they’re remote.
13 reviews for Facebook Portal Mini – Smart Video Calling 8” Touch Screen Display with Alexa – Black
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Jonathan Butler –
“Portal” between Families
We bought the portal mini, as it was the cheapest of the options. We wanted the portal for the wide angle lens and for the stories feature. Our primary use was to help the kids connect to their grandparents who live far away.This Device has been a social life saver during Covid 19.We live far away from our families so having an easy way for our kids to visit with their grand parents, aunts, uncles and cousins has been great for them. my 3 and 5 year old have learned how to use it and call all their favs. When you set up the portal (using a face book account) you can set the people you want to be callable on the device. This prevents your kids from calling your old college room mate or other random people that you are “friends” with on facebook. It really is easy for kids to use.The smart tracking camera is cool, not perfect. Callers without the portal have no control over the focus feature of the portal camera. So they get random zooming in whenever the camera senses motion.I hope they continue the wide angle lens on the newer portals. I think this is the best feature as it really allows you to feel like you have a guest over for dinner as apposed to the narrow view of a phone camera.The wide angle lens is a necessity for kids and a stationary device.It has no battery at all so it must be plugged in. This is a pro and a con. For kids, it keeps them from dragging it all over the house and abandoning their relatives to stare at the ceiling in a random room. But it also means if you want to take a conversation from the living room into a story time in a bed room, you have to hang up and call back after it bootes up again.The stories feature is cool, but if you have the portal and the person on the other end of the call does not, they don’t see the words to the story. This is a selling point to buy one for the grand parents. But since it’s not as portable as a cell phone, grand parents may prefer to use their phone.The “stand” that comes built in is not great. It sits at a slight up angle. Which is fine most of the time. This stand is also part oft he the power cord, so you can’t take it off. You can set it flat on the edge of the device, but it could get bumped and fall forward.It is also a great digital picture frame! it automatically shows pictures from your facebook account ( the one you used to log onto the device). You can limit the pictures to different albums etc. The pictures show up as a screen saver after a few minutes of inactivity.It does work with Alexa with some nice features compared to the amazon echo we have in the house. It will add things your shopping list and show you the list at the same time. It will also tell and show the weather. I’m sure these features work the same or better on amazon screen devices.
J. R. –
Perfect video communications for the non techie elderly parent.
This was my last attempt at finding ba video communication device my 93 year old mom could use. iPads video was too complicated for her, with it’s updates and too many features. This device, once setup under their own FB and email is so easy for her. All she has to do is just touch an answer button. Another bonus is that I can send photos of here great grandkids to the device so she has a picture frame also. Video is mostly good though occasionally the internet will cause a short freeze.
Borsalino A. –
Worth the investment!
I initially purchased this for my mother-in-law. She LOVES it. There are so many features, the quality is amazing (both video and audio), and it’s very simple to use. She loved it so much that I bought one for my wife and own mother, and they couldn’t be happier. It’s WAYYY better than using your phone. Wider angle camera, camera follows you when you move, you don’t have to hold the phone to your face the whole time, and it frees up your phone when face timing.
Damian B –
Great except audio.
With 1 on 1 calling it is great. Conference calling with 2 or more the duplexing takes a hug hit. Sometimes the camera goes out and many times the audio is muffled or delayed. Needs more work on conferencing but a great tool for 1 on 1 calls. Family loves it and can keep in touch with the grandkids.
Deena –
Very easy setup
Awesome. Bought it for my mom and dad, I’m sure they’ll like it
Dim lei –
Very nice screen and speaker
I mainly use this product as digital photo frame, and this one is totally good in use because I can flip it to straight when I want to. The Alexa is a little bit slower than echo dot, but it’s still acceptable. Everything is satisfy right now except the video cam. I thought the 13 mega pixel selfie cam is gonna be super awesome, however it looks kinda fuzzy like the iPhone one I normally use. So I will still keep use iPhone for video call due to the conveniency. Other than that I was totally satisfy 🙂
Gina parker –
Been wanting a portal for awhile now and it’s not even working
Not able to set up my portal. Will not let me pass. Logging into Facebook or my WhatsApp app very very faulty. Very pissed. I wasted my money on this. It doesn’t give me the code so I can be able to activate my portal very dissatisfied…
Alusine sesay –
It works great
It’s very nice. We can now video call relatives abroad with ease. The connection is great and the sound or volume is very good and clear. No regret so far it’s worth the price.
Andrew Graham –
Item is not compatible with UK power sources as adapter is a US fitting. Purchase of additional adapter is required. Will not display photos as photo app is not pre installed. Several efforts to download said app have failed.
Dr. Merika –
I loved the original Facebook portal that I had and was sad when it started to lose strength. And I was glad that I could replace it with something similar, even though Meta doesn’t seem to sell these any longer. Thankfully, they still offer help and support. This is the best way to see our grandchildren and be free from holding a small phone. We can use both Messenger and Facebook on this device and it adds a lot to our lives. We have had trouble with the Facebook part, but the Whatsapp setup was quick and thorough, and that is the format that we use the most.
tanrae –
I ordered black and received a white one. Even the sticker on the box said black so would have been a manufacturer error. I like the device a lot – the camera and video display really make it feel more like being there beside the person on the other end of the call. I ended up buying them as gifts for all of my close family members. The only feature I really hate is the plug. It would be great if there was a charging option to be able to move it around more easily, without losing the call. Something for fb to think about for a v2…
Jason Lloyd-Bevis –
Sold in the UK witg wrong connector.Advertised as usb C connector ??Also portal rubber emblem half stuck on.Bought new and sealed .Cant even use it
Sébastien –
Great sound!Great for music and video call on microsoft team