Facebook unveils smart displays, promises not to snoop on your video calls
by Valentina Palladino from Ars Technica - All content on (#40CQK)
Just as Amazon's newest Echo Show comes out, Facebook enters the smart display space with two devices of its own. The company announced the Portal and Portal+ smart displays today, both of which are voice-controlled speakers with touchscreens that focus on video chatting with Facebook Messenger.
The $199 Portal looks similar to the new Echo Show with its 10-inch, 1280i-800 touchscreen, but its speaker sits at the bottom edge, facing the user. The $349 Portal+ has a mammoth 15-inch, 1920i-1080 display that can rotate into portrait and landscape orientations. The speaker sits at the bottom of the display, while a camera, more noticeable than that on the regular Portal, sits at the top.
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