The Facebook Portal Plus is great for video calls, hard on your conscience

The Portal Plus is an expensive device with a $349 price tag that belies its capabilities. Although the Portal Plus boasts a big screen and some fun tools, it's far more limited than, say, the current-generation Amazon Echo Show 10 and Google Nest Hub Max. In fact, the big screen is arguably the sole reason to choose the Portal Plus over Facebook's $199 Portal Go, a nearly identical device save for its 10-inch display and battery-powered portability. Whether or not you'll be truly satisfied with either one, though, depends on what you want--and whether you have a Facebook or WhatsApp account, one of which is required to use any Portal. The Portal Plus' base is also its speaker.