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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699 COMMENTS

  1. I like that the smart portal acts as a display for your favourite Facebook/Instagram pictures. I will be keeping in touch with my siblings.

  2. I appreciate the privacy features, including Privacy easy disabling of the camera and microphone.

  4. I love the smart camera feature and also that i can share my Instagram and Facebook pics! Would love this for work and family chats! Love the Muppet commercials too …lol 🙂

  5. I love that once you plug it in, that it walks you through the setup. It would be great to give to my in-laws, so that they can keep in touch with all of our family in these difficult times.

  7. I like that the screen adapts to the lighting quality of the room and that the audio adjusts to wherever you are in the room to keep it crisp and clear. This would be perfect for talking to my family, especially right now!

  13. I like the Smart Camera to keep in touch with our grandchildren who lives in a different province than we do.

  15. like that I can have more than one person in the chat, thats just great and the camera in that pet robot is neat

  17. I like the Smart Camera, to keep in touch with my daughter, who lives in a different city than I do.

  19. I really like the Superframe feature, as it would be perfect for my non-tech oriented mom. Having a device that she could see her grandkids on would be great, and with Superframe it would not seem like clutter the rest of the time (since she would not use most of the other features). And it would be my mom/grandma that we would use it the most with – far enough away that we don’t get together enough at the best of times.

  20. Portal TV’s camera can follow you around the room sounds very useful.
    My parents would get the gift so that they could easily talk to the grandkids.

  26. As my family is in the States, it would be great to be able to keep up with them via the FB portal.

  33. The video chat would be great! I’m going to be spending a lot more time away from home in the next few months and it would be nice to keep in touch with family.

  43. Smart camera has to be number one especially since I did not see my nephew that was born recently due to self isolation

  44. Would definetly use this to chat with my family (mother and sister) since we are already using messenger to keep in contact with the current crisis. This makes it very convenient to have a device dedicated to it and that can just show pictures while its inactive.

  45. i like the encryption, even my keyboard is encrypted and i will probably talk to my parents the most as i travel out of the country every winter except for this one good thing eh?

  48. In today’s current state live video chat would be great with family members. It would be great for my kids to see their whenever they want when we are all in isolation.

  50. I really like the smart camera. This would be great for keeping in touch with my family members that live far away!

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