Facebook PortalIn these unprecedented times, it’s more important than ever to keep in touch with your colleagues, friends, family, and loved ones—and Facebook Portal was designed just for that purpose. Like many of us, you’re probably spending the majority of your time at home right now. You might be juggling the kids, the cats, and the dogs while you’re trying to work from home, or perhaps you’re spending your days watching oodles of Netflix and playing the hottest Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One games. (Maybe all of the above?) Enter this contest and, if you win, you’ll be able to spend more time connecting with the people you work with or the people you love: the prize is three Facebook Portal devices.

Face-to-face communications always give you that extra something

Sure, you could send an email. But isn’t it nice to see someone’s face light up when you say hello? That’s backed up by science. One of the world’s foremost experts on human communication, Professor Albert Mehrabian’s famed “7-38-55 rule of personal communication” breaks human interactions down to a general ratio of 7% verbal, 38% tone of voice, and 55% body language. That means your facial expressions, gestures, and other movements can make up more than half of your message!

Facebook Portal keeps you in close contact with your colleagues

Perhaps you’re operating a small office, or you have a few major clients for your freelance gig. Sometimes a giant back-and-forth email thread isn’t the most efficient way to get things done. Whether you’re separated by a few streets—or more than a few time zones, you can stay in touch just like you would in a face-to-face meeting by using Facebook Portal. As long as they’ve got Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp, they can link up for video calls, and you’ll be working like never before.

Facebook Portal is also great for keeping in touch with family and friends

Lots of people love Facebook Portal because they can make live video calls to friends and family, display their photos, and more. With more families and friends in different places around the globe, it’s more important than ever to stay in touch. So pop online just to say hi to your best friend, or read stories to your nieces, nephews, or grandchildren. And when you’re not using the device, Facebook Portal has a feature so it can double as a picture frame to display all your favourite Facebook and Instagram photos. How great is that?

How to enter

Entering this contest is easy, but you can only enter once. First, read our reviews of Facebook Portal and Facebook Portal Mini, and our review of Facebook Portal TV. Then, in a comment on this article, tell us one feature you love about Facebook Portal and who you’ll be keeping in contact with the most.

What you can win

At the end of the contest, we’ll select one winner to receive a Portal bundle that includes one Facebook Portal, one Facebook Portal Mini, and one Facebook Portal TV. Keep one for yourself and send the others to the people you want or need to keep in contact with most.

This contest runs from March 31st to April 16th.

Remember, you can only enter once, but you probably know someone else who would love to see the smiling faces of their colleagues, family, and friends all the time. Let them know about this contest so they too have a chance to win—and make their day!

Win a Facebook Portal Contest Rules and Regulations

Good luck!

Jon Braun
Jon Braun
Based in Vancouver, Jon is an Editor at Best Buy. He’s contributed to numerous publications and corporate entities around the world. Beyond a debatably unhealthy obsession with the semicolon, in his spare time he’s a certified beer and sake nerd, and has numerous pieces of flair to prove it.
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  1. I like how the camera can let you connect to live stream with your friends. I’d be keeping touch with many relatives over seas.

  2. I love the feature that any video calls you make will be safely encrypted for an extra layer of privacy

  3. I love that you can be face to face and get that interaction while we are all on lock down. It’s hard to convey feelings, thoughts and emotions in a text message but being able to see my loved ones, laugh, watch movies together over video would be phenomenal. Thanks for the chance and good luck everyone.

  4. i love that it has amazons alexa enabled, and im going to be keeping in touch with my girlfriend in Brazil the most.

  5. I love this feature any video calls you make will be safely encrypted for an extra layer of privacy, and you’ll also be able to see the image you’re projecting to the person you’re talking to via a small picture-in-picture in the upper left corner of the screen.

  7. I love the Facebook Portal TV and it has the ability to make video calls to your far-away family! It would be so useful for my kids to keep in touch with their grandparents!

  8. Great to have video calls..It allows me to keep in touch with my kids living all over Canada.

  9. I like how it has Alexa built in and how when you make calls, it fills the whole screen so you don’t have any black bars on the side of it.

  10. I love the smart camera feature. My daughter and I miss my sister and niece and would love to connect with them.

  11. Hard to decide which I like more, I like the smart camera but I also like the added security.

  13. I like the fact that it gives the ability to make video calls via Facebook Messenger or WhatsApp form my television.

  14. Love the video call feature and would certainly use it to keep in contact with my children and grandchildren.

  15. I like the app called Facebook Watch that would let me and my family watch movies and shows while together on a video call. I am expecting two new grandchildren in July and already have one grandchild so this would make me more a part of their families when they are doing fun things with the children.

  20. I love that you can have mutliple people involved in the live chat! I would definitely use this to chat with my sister and my little nieces – especially since I can’t visit to play with them! Thanks for the chance at an easy way to still experience their achievements!

  21. I love being able to have multi people on the call. I use fb messenger more than text so it’s awesome to have another way to integrate. I think Portal TV would make the most sense for us, but I want all of them!

  24. I love the Live Video Calls feature, because I would be able to talk to my Dad, who is 82, has coronary dementia, and was put in a nursing home due to having his dementia and having had a colostomy bag put on. This was just before the lockdown was enforced, so he is very sad that no one can come see him (and confused). Plus, I live many miles away. Would just love to see his sweet face, and I’m hoping he gets through this.

  25. I love that Facebook Portal can double as a picture frame when you are not using it! I would use it to keep in touch with my mother and mother-in-law. It would be so wonderful to see them as we chat and have tea together across the miles!

  26. I like how it acts as a picture when you aren’t using it, I would use it to talk to friends and family that live far away

  27. My favourite thing is that you can have up to 7 people on a call. I would use it to talk to friends that I cant see in person right now.

  29. Staying connected to family would be awesome. The security/privacy features sound great.

  32. I love that I can see my family that is all in different countries right now. I think a lot of people would love to have these right now.

  33. The feature that I love in Portals is the privacy shutter. with ever increasing goof up’s a physical shutter provides the much needed safety.
    I’ll use this to remain connected with my parents in India.

  39. I like that it looks so easy to set up and use. This would be great for keeping in touch with everyone while we’re stuck at home!

  40. I’d love this to be able to see my family while chatting as we are in different countries and I don’t get to visit only maybe once a year, if that. As a mother, it’s very important to me to stay in contact with them as I miss them very much. I like the feature where the camera follows you around a bit and also the window to slide and close for privacy. This is remarkable!

  41. I have two busy busy kids so I love that the portal can follow me around as I deal with them when I am talking to someone.

  44. I love that the camera pans and zooms. We will use it to stay in touch with our daughter in the USA.

  47. They allow you to easily make live video calls to your family and friends who are on Facebook.

  48. only way to see my family now is through it, so its a must these days, so love the video calling and the smart tracking camera

  49. LOVE that smart camera!!! I would be able to keep in touch with my family so easily! Thanks for the opportunity! Best Buy rules!!

  50. I love that you can have up to 7 people in the live chat on face book and see them on your tv.

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