Nextbit Robin in Red
That red Nextbit Robin that the company
teased earlier this month has now become official. The new color version is
called "ember" by Robin's maker. The red Robin is now available for
purchase straight from Nextbit's website.
The price is the same US$ 299 as for the
other colors, and as you'd expect the specs are identical too. It really is
just the hue that's different, but that's plenty for some.
The Nextbit Robin launched via
Kickstarter last year, and it's been moderately successful so far, especially
after it received a permanent US$ 100 price cut. Its main claim to fame is the
associated 100 GB of cloud storage to which everything in the phone is
automatically backed up - we're talking apps, data, and multimedia. So you
theoretically should run out of storage much later than on another smartphone
that comes with 32 GB built-in.
The Robin has a 5.2-inch 1080p IPS LCD
touchscreen, a 13 MP rear camera with phase detection autofocus and dual-LED
flash, a 5 MP selfie camera, Qualcomm's Snapdragon 808 SoC, 3 GB of RAM, NFC, a
fingerprint scanner, a USB Type-C port, dual front-facing speakers, and a 2,680
mAh battery. It runs Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow.
