Facebook Portal TV - Review

That is a great idea!  My father (who just passed away in June at 85) was living in a nursing home for since 2018. I visited him often, but I was the only one he had left and he had no other visitors 😞 When Covid hit, it was awful....BUT I had gotten him an Amazon Echo Show 5 (5" screen) anyways, so at least we were able to "see" each other on the regular, and THAT in itself was a godsend! But eventually I replace that little 5" device with the newest Echo Show 10 (10" screen) and he was in heaven!! (not literally!!! lol) He was the biggest tech=phobe alive and refused to even TRY anything... not even a cell phone. But with the Echo Show, you never have to touch it! He was able to tell it to play all of his old country western favorite music, watch all of his favorite westerns and war movies, got to video chat with me and my kids whenever he wanted (which was many..MANY times a day...ugh lol) and the best part was that I was able to control the settings from my phone, even though it was connected to the facility wi-fi... I was able to mute it, put my finger over the camera, and call it (i set it to answer automatically) and I was able to see what was going on in his room whenever I wanted. I told a little fib to the staff, and said when they saw a black screen it was probably just updating LOL)  Luckily I never saw him being abused!! But I did see some neglect a few times, which I was able to have corrected with just a call to the office 😉  Since my dad passed, I now use the ech in my kitchen (where I spend most of my time anyway). It has AMAZING SOUND!!!! I mostly listen to music in the house so its pretty great. Of course, I can also watch stuff on it too... and its funny when I tell it to play my favorites/most listened to songs, every once in a while one of my dads oldies songs will come on, and I just smile and let myself think that its just my dad letting me know hes "still around".... even though I know better 😉