![]() And with Facebook Assistant and Alexa Built-in, Portal enables hands-free functionality which is increasingly expected in places like the kitchen where your hands are often busy with other tasks. Portal also has a Smart Camera with an ultrawide field of view which is a differentiator for video calling – group calls feel more natural and calls tend to last longer. ![]() The first major difference is that Portal is focused on connecting people and it's built for the home, so we've made design choices that optimize for that. I asked Facebook directly and here's its spokesperson's response in full: It's billed mostly as a chatting/meeting device. Like most folks, I wondered "Why not just buy a tablet?" After all, Portal has Alexa built-in but is far from focused on the smart home like the Nest Hub or an Echo Show. If you're going to skip out on the latest tech, you should know why. Still, there are interesting points and features. If the $200 Portal Go had wowed me in any facet of my evaluation, I would give it its due praise. Limited apps and unintuitive quirks combined with Facebook's overarching privacy issues are enough for me to steer everyone in another direction. ![]() Doesn't outperform any tablet or smart displayĪfter a week of testing, it's hard for me to recommend the Portal Go. ![]()
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