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Portal Mini from Facebook. Smart Video Calling with Alexa Built-in – 8” Screen (White)

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Pros & Cons

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Pros

The smart tracking camera is cool, not perfect. It features our facebook photos nicely. The camera and microphone are top grade with a crazy field of vision.

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. Spend hours with my 5 year old grandson with interactive great games.

Usually i cringe when i open my phone camera and it's looking up at me. But the portal seems to create a flattering image even from that angle. The wide angle lens is a necessity for kids and a stationary device.

Cons

Its super slow and glitchy. It has a hard time switching the screen between a vertical or horizontal position as it glitches or sometimes not even responds. All of my contacts are gone.

I think this device is unnecessary and it seems buggy (at least if you start the zoom app and use the lock/pin feature). Asking portal to search the internet for angora rabbit doesn't work either. The portal mini is the nice product facebook has launc... Read More

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Quality

It's very fun to use with the grandkids

It has amazing picture quality, wifi enabled, easily connects to fb photo albums, beautiful transitions and handling of vertical vs.

With the whatsapp and messenger accounts properly set up, she simply has to touch on the favorite contacts that rest right on t... Read More

Picture quality is great and i love the automatic focus.

Price

The value for the cost is good in my opinion.

Packaging/appearance

If for some reason gets out of the main screen (not as easy to happen as in an ipad) or whatever, it's (mostly) simple for her ... Read More

Competitiveness

At $65 over the holidays, it was a no-brainer as a picture frame.

There isno charge for the service just need internet .

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This product had a total of 3,148 reviews as of our last analysis date on Sep 7 2022.