When early Android veterans get together to form a company and come out with a product, you can expect it to be something unusual or something great. Or it can also be something unusually great, at least on paper. Nextbit is one such company, and their brand new product is called Robin, and it is probably the first and only (at least for now) cloud-first smartphone.
This means that you will probably never run out of storage on your device as it automatically backs up your phone’s content onto the cloud. You already have 32GB internal storage, but as we all know, sometimes that isn’t enough. So what Robin does is back-up your content, whether it’s music, pictures, videos or even apps onto the cloud whenever it detects that your phone is running out of space. You have a 100GB private box on their cloud server.
But it’s not just as simple as that. There’s a reason why they claim it’s a “smarter smartphone”. It actually adapts to how you normally use your smartphone. It looks at the apps you constantly use, and whenever it detects that you’re not using an app anymore, it offloads it to the cloud where you can still access it later on if you happen to need it. And whenever you’re connected to WiFi and you’re juicing up, it automatically backs up your content, but you can change the setting as well.
As of this writing, Robin has already reached its funding goal of $500,000 on Kickstarter. You still have 29 days to go if you want to back them up. You can pay $349 to get the phone and a charging cable, and delivery is estimated by February 2016.
Nextbit Robin specifications
– OS: Android Lollipop or Marshmallow
– Processor: Qualcomm Snapdragon 808
– Display: 5.2-inch Full HD
– Size: 72 x 149.1 x 7 mm
– Battery: 2680 mAh
– 3GB RAM
– 32GB internal storage
– 13 megapixel camera with dual LED flash
– 5 megapixel front facing camera
– Bluetooth 4.0 / NFC / GPS
– WiFi a/b/g/n/ac
– fingerprint sensor
SOURCE: Kickstarter
