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October 8, 2018 by Gary Price

Facebook Announces Launch of “Portal” Smart Speakers with Video; Devices Will Include Amazon’s Alexa Voice Assistant

October 8, 2018 by Gary Price

From CNBC:

Facebook on Monday unveiled a pair of smart speakers, complete with cameras and microphones, for your home.
The devices, Portal and Portal+, directly challenge Amazon, Google and Apple in the fast-growing smart-speaker market with a unique approach that will emphasize video calling. It’s Facebook’s first hardware product outside the Oculus line of virtual-reality devices.
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Besides video calls, the Portal devices can stream music from Spotify, Pandora and Amazon Music and video from Facebook Watch. Not included at launch are services like Apple Music, YouTube, Netflix, Hulu or HBO Now.
The devices come equipped with Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant and the many skills available on that service, allowing them to ask questions like “What’s the weather?” or “How are my teams doing?”
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The company is taking preorders for the devices now and will begin shipping them early next month. The Portal, which features a 10-inch screen, is available for $199 while the Portal+, which has a long, 15.6-inch screen, is priced at $349.

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Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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