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

My siblings and I can see and talk to our Mom during the COVID Lockdown. Boosts her spirits

Works so good

It worked the first day, then the second, it stopped working. No power to the unit. It just died. I called Facebook support, they tried to help, but nothing. I sent it back for a refund. Its super disappointing because I sent this as a gift to a family member. I purchased it directly from 6ave and had them send it. I also bought another at the same time for another family member, but they havent opened yet since it was for Christmas. Ill update the review if that one doesnt work either. Ill buy straight from Facebook next time

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 bought this thinking it would make my home lifestyle more fun, although every time when I would try to use the touch screen it would lag and there would be like a 20 second delay after using the touch screen. The voice control doesnt really function well as I would have to call it multiple times for it to hear me. It does not have the same functions as a typical Alexa device because I cant connect any smart devices to it (such as my smart lightbulb) and it cant answer random curious or fun questions like any other regular alexa device would...so whats the point of it having an Alexa! Theres really no common/useful apps you can use this device (except for spotify) so theres no other use for it other than video chatting. Although this device provides access to a web browser you would have to navigate to any website, such as Youtube, as if your on an iPad, however....ITS SUPER SLOW and glitchy. So I NEVER find myself using the web browser as its just ends up not worth my time to try to use. Also need to note that it has a hard time switching the screen between a vertical or horizontal position as it glitches or sometimes not even responds. Ill give it 1 extra star than this device deserves ONLY because the video quality is pretty good and the cool feature where the camera follows you around in the room. But besides that, if you want to use this thing for ANY other recreational use such as putting on YouTube to watch a cooking tutorial while cooking in the kitchen or ask it typical/simple questions that my echo dot device could answer...then this is NOT the device for you.

Love the portals ability to zoom in and out during video calls. I wish it had more apps though or compatibility with either google or iOS. I can only use it for video calling and not for Netflix or other streaming services with the exception of amazon music.

Great product as advertised!

I like the picture quality and how easy it is to use.

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

Great camera great video qualety Poor apps, disconectvyou from whatsup desktop app for chat every time you want to make a chat. Ask you all the time on the qualety of video chat . This is anoying. Does not use voice to answar or disconect call.