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From what it sounds like, the gaming hardware company is essentially taking on Nextbit as its new mobile division. That means a shift in infrastructure.
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The pricing cascade continues for the original Nextbit Robin. With no perceivable sequel on the horizon and a faithful, old friend of a phone that can beam up any stray bits of storage if you need it on your phone, it might as well be priced as low as it currently is.
How low? Try $144.99 on Amazon. Remember that we first set eyes on the bird in late 2015, saw its retail launch earlier this year and we’ve seen its retail value drop by 64 percent since then.
The Robin comes in Mint/White and Midnight/Black color combos and with a year’s warranty in the United States.
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While you can still probably count the number of non-Nexus Android device models officially updated to Nougat, at least in one country or on one carrier, on the fingers of one hand, there are many more from several manufacturers treated to public beta builds.
Ambitious startup Nextbit today follows Samsung, Sony or Huawei’s suit with an experimental 7.0 rollout of its own for pre-release Robin software testers. The unique and surprising thing about the cloud-first phone’s beta community program is that Nextbit’s devs have actually partnered with the Paranoid Android team to “speed things along.”
Second only to CyanogenMod, PA is a hugely popular custom Android ROM with an estimated 200K+ users as of last year. This is likely the first time an OEM shows such openness to this particular open-source initiative, apparently being “there every step of the way” to help shape up and test its early N builds.
What courageous and cooperative Nextbit Robin owners will be getting over-the-air starting today is thus a joint effort to stabilize and improve the Nougat experience as quickly as possible without modifying too many stock features.
A “few bugs and kinks” obviously still “need to be worked out”, but otherwise, Nextbit and Paranoid Android hope your introductory beta version of the next software release will only make your “day-to-day experience” better, requiring minimal additional efforts and time before a proper, wide-scale launch takes place.
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A good cloud phone just got that much more affordable. And it’s about time, too — Nextbit is just nearly a year into its tenure on Amazon with its Robin smartphone.
After starting at $400, we’ve now dropped to a standard $200 on Amazon and now a cool $169.99 for the Midnight version. Yep, it’s that affordable to get a decent phone with a decent Snapdragon 808, a decent screen and 100GB of cloud storage to back up your apps, files and most everything else you might need.
Alas, no word on duration of this cost cut nor any word on if that Ember Robin will come on at a lower price.
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Who doesn’t love unlocked Android smartphones, especially those sold through official, authorized and trustworthy channels with valid warranties and fast, free nationwide shipping?It pretty much goes without saying you’ll find plenty of compelling deals on such products from basically every OEM under the sun come Black Friday and Cyber Monday in a couple of months, but if you simply can’t wait that long, Amazon’s latest “48 hour Unlocked Event” has you covered.The fire sale’s protagonists are fairly popular even when they’re not massively marked down, as the 4GB RAM/64GB ...
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Still sad you weren’t quick or lucky enough to score one of those limited edition Nextbit Robin copies in the actual snazzy color of a robin, Ember, aka red? Believe it or not, your laziness or misfortune might ultimately prove to have been a blessing in disguise, as long as you act now and take Amazon up on its sweetest lightning deal of today.For the next 21 hours or so at the time of writing, i.e. until midnight PDT, the Mint and Midnight-coated “cloud-first” smartphones are available for their lowest prices yet ...
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You know what never made sense? The Nextbit Robin color scheme. All these shades of “mint” and black and white, they’re all cool for sure. But come on.Have you ever seen a robin? In the wild? Like, in nature? It’s red.Well, in the spirit of nothing else but summer, Nextbit has come along with an “Ember” scheme for the Robin — “a neutral deep-black back with ...
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Is it time for a whole new version of the world’s headline-grabbing “cloud-first” smartphone? Probably not, since Nextbit started asking for Kickstarter pledges back in September 2015, but only commercially released the first-gen Robin early this year.That doesn’t mean you need to wait six more months for the minimalistically designed handset to heighten its pizazz, though, as existing ...
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The reason to buy a Nextbit Robin is not just in its bold design, but really it’s smarter approach to software. Nextbit has pioneered a concept where you no longer have to worry about storage, but just as we learned from our initial meetings with the company, that was just the beginning.Nextbit has just announced that the second challenge the company wants to face is giving users a worry-free experience with battery life. To do this, the company will launch a new version of the Nextbit OS, based on Android, in Q4. What we can expect is a smarter device that learns your usage patterns ...
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Even though it’s only a few months old, the Nextbit Robin is no longer $399 anywhere.It used to be that some people, some places even got a $100 discount and everywhere else got jack. India, for example, got a $299 booking price when the phone launched late last month.So it goes that Nextbit has announced a drop in the standard Robin’s price to that $299 mark for customers in all 37 countries it ships ...
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Nextbit not only takes the crown for one of the most successful Kickstarter campaigns ever, but also for offering a unique and very capable product. The Nexbit Robin is one of our favorite blends between a daring approach to hardware, and truly useful improvements in the software department. If you’re interested in the Robin deals that were limited to only the US and India, things just changed.Nextbit has now extended the $299 Robin deals to all the markets where the device is shipped. The deal also includes free standard shipping to any of these markets, and remember that every ...
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Here’s a nice way to put that Robin you picked up on discount recently.Nextbit is about to debut a new Beta Tester Program for Robin users and it is seeking applicants for the program. The company characterizes testers as those “who raise their hands” and actively give feedback to the team. No specifics have been given as to what the first batch of features will be.Of course, as we ...
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When you talk about “OS X,” Apple’s SVP of Software Engineering, Craig Federighi, ribbed his engineers for going on some “inspired” tour around California. Well, now it’s time to say hello to “Sierra,” but bye bye to Mac OS X. It’s “macOS Sierra”.And there’s no shortage of mobile-related features that will be introduced to the Mac for continuity purposes.Auto Unlock allows Apple Watch owners to unlock their Macs just by having their smartwatch nearby if both machines are on the same network. It’s pretty much an ...
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Sharp corners. Circular motifs. One Robin.If you want to learn more about how Nextbit designed its Red Dot Award-winning phone, well, you have a chance to ask the people behind the blueprints all about it.Nextbit’s Scott Croyle, Chief Design and Product Officer (formerly part of HTC’s design team), and Saro Nalbandian, Head of ...
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