‘Cloud phone’ Nextbit Robin will be released next month

The ‘cloud phone’ of, among others, former HTC designer Scott Croyle will be released in February. The start-up Nextbit will ship its Android smartphone Robin to backers of the project on Kickstarter in mid-next month.

The first backers will get it in mid-February and the rest a few weeks later, the company writes on its Kickstarter page. The Robin’s most distinctive feature is that the software stores inactive apps on a server and removes them from the phone to save memory. The icons of apps remain on the phone, but because of the gray tint, users know that it must be downloaded again to be functional again.

The phone comes in two colors and is built by Foxconn. The device has a 13-megapixel camera on the back and a 5-megapixel version on the front. There is also a 2680mAh battery, front speakers, a fingerprint reader on the side, NFC, Bluetooth 4.0 and 4G. Furthermore, the phone is equipped with a slightly modified Android version, a released bootloader and open source drivers.

The device has a 5.2″ screen with a resolution of 1920×1080 pixels. The device runs on a Snapdragon 808 hexacore from Qualcomm. At the bottom of the smartphone is a USB-C port, just like on the Nexus, for example. devices from Google. There were 3,611 backers of the project who invested a total of $1.3 million in the Robin.