Robin has made waves through its standout feature of online storage. While the smartphone comes with 32 gigabytes of internal storage, it will have a total of 100GB of storage by tapping into the cloud for further online resources. Nextbit executives have hinted that they will be able to use online access and storage to improve the phone in other ways over time.
Deleting photos, apps and other random downloads you’d forgotten about might be par for the course for smartphone owners (pretty much everyone, then) but Nextbit’s cloud-first ‘Robin’ device is now available to pre-order and promises that deleting your data to free up space is a thing of the past.
The phone is unique because it automatically adapts to how you use the phone, removing apps and infrequently accessed data to the cloud so it doesn’t take up local space.
If you tap on the app that’s been removed, it’ll be installed fully again on the spot. Robin is built on Android and plans to ship it running Marshmallow, though it’ll be interesting to see how long its adaptions take to squish into future versions of the operating system.
It’s a visually stunning phone that looks very different from others available for purchase right now and comes in two colors; mint and midnight.
Inside is a Snapdragon 808 processor, 3GB RAM, 32GB of storage, a 13-megapixel rear camera and 5-megapixels on the front. It’s also got NFC, a fingerprint sensor and Bluetooth 4.0 LE.
Nextbit CEO, Tom Moss, was previously Worldwide Head of Business Development and Partnerships for Android, CTO, Mike Chan, was an engineer working on Android power management and Chief of Product, Scott Croyle, worked on hardware at HTC. The company is also backed by Google Ventures.
