{"id":47,"date":"2020-05-04T13:21:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T13:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/?p=47"},"modified":"2020-05-04T13:36:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T13:36:05","slug":"portal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/04\/portal\/","title":{"rendered":"Portal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Portal (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2yocxZe\" target=\"_blank\">Portal<\/a> from Facebook is essentially a video calling device.  However it is adding features that will allow it to compete in the same space as products from Apple, Google and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2YvdNEz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Amazon (opens in a new tab)\">Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With built in <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Alexa (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3de1Xmn\" target=\"_blank\">Alexa<\/a> it can do anything that an <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Amazon Echo (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2YvdNEz\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon Echo<\/a> device can do, including play your music from a number of providers including <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2YANWv1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Amazon Music (opens in a new tab)\">Amazon Music<\/a> and Spotify.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"573\" height=\"365\" src=\"http:\/\/800pods.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/portal.png\" alt=\"Facebook Portal+  Copyright Facebook.\" class=\"wp-image-48\" srcset=\"http:\/\/800pods.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/portal.png 573w, http:\/\/800pods.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/portal-300x191.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To use the video calling side of the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2yocxZe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Portal (opens in a new tab)\">Portal<\/a> you will need a Facebook or Whats App account and you can speak to up to 7 people in a call.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The portal comes in 4 variants, the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2z7BjNk\" target=\"_blank\">*8&#8243; Portal Mini<\/a> and the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"10&quot; Portal (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2SxiQ3N\" target=\"_blank\">10&#8243; Portal<\/a> are very similar, its just about the size.  <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Wimi32\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Portal TV (opens in a new tab)\">Portal TV<\/a> essentially turns your TV in the display and finally there is the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"15.6&quot; Portal+ (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3b2BhU4\" target=\"_blank\">15.6&#8243; Portal+<\/a>.  The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Portal+ (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3b2BhU4\" target=\"_blank\">Portal+<\/a> has a better sound system that its smaller siblings and boasts a 4&#8243; woofer.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portal from Facebook is essentially a video calling device. However it is adding features that will allow it to compete in the same space as products from Apple, Google and Amazon. With built in Alexa it can do anything that an Amazon Echo device can do, including play your music from a number of providers &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/2020\/05\/04\/portal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Portal&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,36,37,39,38,1],"tags":[12,29,32,33,34,31,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51,"href":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/800pods.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}