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

This is such a great product. Useful as a communication tool to keep in touch with loved ones, but also for playing videos while cooking, great for games free music management. Highly recommend!

Good sound quality, great display effect for 15.6” display

I bought this for my husband as a fathers dat gift. He was really confused when he opened it, and kinda poo-pooed it. I unboxed it, set it up, logged onto FB, (my account of course as he is on NO social media), connected Alexa and Spotify. Now mind you, he didnt think much of Alexa before this, and couldnt understand why I had bought 6 more dots. I had our son, who is serving a mission for our church away from home, call us on messanger. HUBBY GONE WILD! He adores it!!! We conference with kids, (we have 9), and grandkids, (18 of them spread out everywhere). We can literally be there with them and read a book, say prayers, watch a game, etc., with the Portal. He called everyone he knew on it, just to tell them how cool it was and to show them the zoom and pan features it has. He struts around the kitchen while we make dinner, do dishes, eat breakfast and so on. Then I showed him what Alexa can do, and started a playlist for him on Spotify. He has 1010 songs! In 2 weeks! He has demanded a dot be put in his office and the garage, even by the pool. Dont think about it, just buy it! The Plus is worth the extra money. We are saving up to get each of our kids and parents a Plus for Christmas this year. I trust Amazon, so buying refurbished doesnt scare me one bit.

It’s ok

I bought this for my daughter for Christmas and we love it. I can visit with my grandsons and see my new granddaughter in full screen rather than on the little camera on her phone. It is hard to explain all of the great things it can do because it is at my daughters house in Alaska, but my grandsons can call me anytime and we video chat to our hearts content even though we are many miles apart.

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!

Its a nice one but the apps that you rwad that could be used on it you can at this time

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.

I have a podcast show and it would be a great add to be able to use restream and/or streamyard. Portal plus does not show popup to grant access to camera and microphone. If Facebook Portal plus update their browser to be able to use restream and/or streamyard that would be amazing. I havent used Alexa yet and the touchscreen is a little slow to respond.

I bought this for my parents who are not tech savvy. The video and audio controls are right above the device handle, which makes them disable/enable audio and video inadvertently which is very annoying. The audio/video controls are tiny and won’t really give any tactile sense when operated, as mentioned by my parents