Facebook Portal Mini - Smart Video Calling 8” Touch Screen Display with Alexa - White

I keep this in my kitchen, great for music, Youtube videos, Whats ap chats and so much more. I bought one for my Mom for Christmas and my husband bought one for me. Great gifts!! We love them!

This is such a useful product and the kids love it!!!

Unable to face time after one month and unable to use the product.

Just a really bad sign that the first time I tried to place a call, the device froze and crashed, requiring me to unplug it from power and restart it. When I tried again, the video call connected, and I saw my own video and the other persons video, but the other person couldnt see my video. I ended up placing the call through Facebook Messenger on my computer. The choice of photos in the rotation is also somewhat inscrutable. I suppose its not surprising that the Facebook team didnt specifically deprioritize pictures of my ex (and us together), but it seems to be prioritizing them. Also disappointing that they dont offer more options in terms of photo libraries to use (eg, Google Photos, Dropbox). Another very frustrating UX bug is logging into Spotify. My Spotify account password is a random string of 36 characters--a pain to type in on the keyboard. Okay, so Spotify could use a code-based linking flow (and that would be on them, not on Facebook), but they do offer a login with Facebook flow, which Id previously enabled and use on my phone. Great, I thought. But nope: It takes me to a web-based flow where I need to log into Facebook with my Facebook credentials. This is where Facebook needs to control the UX: They control the browser, and their OS knows that Im trying to authenticate on Facebook. And Im logged in to the device with my Facebook account, so it should prompt me to complete the web-based login with the already-logged-in device account. Because I really have no interest in typing in my 36-random-character Facebook password, either. Just an overall disappointing experience.

I bought two, one for my girlfriend. Overall, it’s really a good product for video chatting compared to other products at the same price level. I also like how it works with Alexa seamlessly.

granddaughter loved it

I purchased the mid size portal in white. I use it to talk with my daughters sonI can see the entire family real time without any of us having to be confined to a chair and computer screen. I use it fir my zoom meeting. I use it to cook with my daughter hands free. The value for the cost is good in my opinion. I recommend it!

This thing is super awesome while social distancing. It’s super easy to make calls. It’s like hanging out with family and friends, but nobody’s actually at your house. It also has a great speaker. We use it a lot for listening to music.

I do give a positive review because it greatly improves the viewing experience over a cell phone. I bought four of these minis to connect with our whole family. I do not like that it does not have a battery. At least they could offer a connection to connect an external battery if you want to move around the house at all. We also have a problem that it keeps cutting out on all our connections sporadically. The day after I bought these they discounted them by $40 each. Customer service said they would credit me the difference but they never did. But, again, over all experience connecting with the family is positive.

For over $100, I expected it to last longer than 5 months! We only used it a few times. It was really nice when we used it, but then it just died unexpectedly. No symptoms, just wouldn’t turn on at all and the Amazon window for support said it closed about a week before. Not even 1: Year of support. If I realized that in the beginning I never would have bought it. Very shoddy.