If you aren’t sick of smartphone design these days, I am, as a matter of fact, I kind of wished that there are some interesting ones that I can look forward to, and there’s finally one that has set my eye upon on it, meet the Nextbit Robin, an Android smartphone with a sharp and bold design that looks totally different from the rest of the competition, Nextbit is currently asking for funds to make this smartphone possible over at Kickstarter.
What’s so different about this smartphone then? Apart from design, Nextbit calls the Robin a cloud smartphone, in which users actually get 100GB of free cloud storage for life upon activating the phone, the phone itself already has 32GB of onboard storage and will automatically upload all of your photos and files up to the cloud under ideal conditions, then offload the rest of your phone’s internal storage. While 100GB of cloud storage might sound a little stingy in today’s standards, Nextbit has intended to offer more storage if the company sees growing demand of using its cloud storage, and 100GB is theoretically sufficient for most users out there.
In terms of specs, the Nextbit Robin is powered by a Snapdragon 808 hexa-core SoC, it has 3GB of RAM, a 5.2-inch Full HD IPS display, a 13-megapixel main camera with phase detection autofocus and dual tone flash, a 5-megapixel front camera, a 2680 mAh battery, dual front facing speakers and fingerprint scanner. The Robin will also support global LTE and UMTS networks.
If you are still not convinced with buying the phone, you should be as the design team consist of highly experienced people from the mobile space, one of them being Scott Croyle, which is HTC’s design chief back then is the one that headed the phone’s product design team (no wonder it feels like a recent HTC Desire phone). The Nextbit Robin has currently reached $133k out of its $500k goal, early bird packages start as low as $299 (RM1253), which is a very decent price for a Snapdragon 808 powered smartphone. Head on to the source link to back the project on Kickstarter.
Source : Kickstarter
