Facebook’s infiltration of the home just received reinforcements, as the company unveiled its latest updates to its Portal smart display.
The social media giant’s answer to Amazon’s Echo Show and the Google Home Hub, the new family of Portal devices follows a familiar path, with a $179 version of the 10-inch flagship smart display and a mini version with an 8-inch display pricing at $129. Of course, if consumers just can’t get enough Portal, they can hook up the new Portal TV to the biggest screen in their homes for $149.
The gizmos share the same essential functions — video calling that can automatically focus or track users in the frame, playing music wirelessly and displaying digital photos.
This initiative has plenty of Facebook watchers scratching their heads, wondering how a company so often scrutinized for privacy issues could dare put a camera-equipped gadget in consumers’ homes. And now, after a year since the product’s introduction, a full-blown collection of devices stands ready to place Facebook cameras in every room of the home.
A source with knowledge of internal sentiments at Facebook told WWD that the company was “proud” of its technology — in particular, the tracking capability — and suggested that, since there
The social media giant’s answer to Amazon’s Echo Show and the Google Home Hub, the new family of Portal devices follows a familiar path, with a $179 version of the 10-inch flagship smart display and a mini version with an 8-inch display pricing at $129. Of course, if consumers just can’t get enough Portal, they can hook up the new Portal TV to the biggest screen in their homes for $149.
The gizmos share the same essential functions — video calling that can automatically focus or track users in the frame, playing music wirelessly and displaying digital photos.
This initiative has plenty of Facebook watchers scratching their heads, wondering how a company so often scrutinized for privacy issues could dare put a camera-equipped gadget in consumers’ homes. And now, after a year since the product’s introduction, a full-blown collection of devices stands ready to place Facebook cameras in every room of the home.
A source with knowledge of internal sentiments at Facebook told WWD that the company was “proud” of its technology — in particular, the tracking capability — and suggested that, since there