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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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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Backers to the Nextbit Robin Kickstarter project were able to get an early bird unit for $299. Now, after just making its first splash on Amazon, the device will be on discount once again.While Nextbit itself will continue selling its device direct to you for $399, Amazon buyers will be able to get it for $299 starting from tomorrow, May 4, up through May 10.We assume supplies will be limited, but then again, a phone centered ...
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More than most phones, the Nextbit Robin is a handset really defined by its software, deriving from that code its ability to intelligently offload apps and media the cloud. So we were understandably excited late last month when word arrived about some forthcoming Robin software updates, especially one due to land sometime in April that would bring the phone enhancements like a significantly faster camera and optimized speaker ...
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OK, so the release of the Nextbit Robin didn’t exactly go as planned: despite the upstart phone-maker coming through with its automatic-cloud-storage handset as intended for GSM networks, the late-stage addition of a CDMA version ended up being a little too ambitious, and plans for that version of the handset were ultimately scrapped. But now we’re looking past what when wrong to start focusing on what’s going ...
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Too many smartphone manufacturers are content to churn out phone after uninspired phone, upgrading components with the latest tech and keeping up with the most recent OS build, but failing to give us anything that really feels “new.” So when Nextbit emerged with its crowfunded Robin, offering a phone that not only looked different from so many other handsets out there, but came with a compelling cloud-connected hook, we sat up and took notice. The hardware we ultimately got wasn’t without a few flaws, but the whole Robin experience came together really well, and
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Back in December I was faced with a situation familiar to anyone who’s ever bought a gadget as a gift: I needed to replace my parents’ iPhones. Not because there was anything wrong with them, and certainly not because my parents have a need for the latest or greatest in mobile technology; rather, I needed to replace their devices because, after two years, their paltry 16GB apiece of storage had run out.You don’t need to be an iOS user to know the pain of running out of smartphone capacity. With more and more Android manufacturers omitting the once-standard MicroSD ...
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It takes a lot of work to make a smartphone compatible with as many carriers as possible, and when you’re an upstart firm just getting ready to release your first phone, all too often that means making some sacrifices. So when we learned that the crowdfunded Nextbit Robin wasn’t just going to push beyond GSM-only compatibility and give supporters the option for a CDMA model that worked with Verizon, but also one that would operate on Sprint, it was definitely cause to be excited.
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Vice City. Full of fattening foods, business propositions of the nether regions, fewer grand theft auto charges than you’d think would be there and — for one week out of the whole year — tech here, tech there and tech everywhere. I don’t know how Pocketnow’s largest ground crew survived through all of it, but they did. And they’re here to tell the tale.(Recorded) LIVE from CES 2016, this is episode 182 of the Pocketnow Weekly! Check out the high-quality audio version of our podcast right here or on your podcasting feeds starting today at 11:00am Eastern or ...
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A full four months after its initial announcement, and roughly 75 days on the back of its public pre-order kickoff, the “rebellious” Nextbit Robin phone made a surprise appearance at CES 2016 in Las Vegas to remind the world shipping will begin soon, at least for super-early Kickstarter adopters.On the whole, the ambitious concept behind the cloud-first device has obviously not changed, ...
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