Nextbit, the newest player in the premium smartphone game, has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund its first smartphone, Robin.
The nascent company, run by former Google, Apple, Amazon, and HTC employees, unveiled the crowdfunding campaign today for the new "cloud first" Android smartphone. It's hoping to raise $500,000 over the next 29 days.
Robin has been dubbed the world's only cloud first smartphone, giving users free storage space via the cloud to ensure their phone never runs out of space.
"Robin intelligently adapts to your storage needs, and automatically optimizes the space on your phone when it sees you need it," says the company.
The sleekly-designed smartphone claims to back up your photos and apps when you have enough power and are connected to Wi-Fi. It will also delete unused files from your phone, once they've been backed up to the cloud, to create more space on your device.
The phone itself has 32GB of local storage, 100GB of cloud storage, and no "bloatware" or third party apps. The SIM for phone also comes unlocked.
Cloud storage right now appears to be free for users with Nextbit insisting that its business model will be based on sales of the phone and not cloud subscriptions.
Nextbit's CEO Tom Moss says that the company is trying to do something different to tackle what he calls "phone fatigue".
Through the crowdfunding campaign, early funders will be able to buy the Robin smartphone for $299, with limited availability. Early backers will get the phone in January of next year with all other price levels having release dates in February 2016.
Within an hour of launching the campaign, it had already reached over $100,000.
On the specs front, Robin has a Snapdragon 808 processor, 5.2" LCD 1080p screen, and a 2680 mAh battery. There's a 13 megapixel rear camera and a five megapixel front camera as well as a fingerprint sensor and NFC support.
Source: Nextbit's Robin is a Cheap Smartphone That Never Runs Out of Storage
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