This New Phone May Make You Want To Ditch Your iPhone

We all know the pain of running out of storage space, especially when it comes to photos and music. It's such a mere to decide what photos go, and which stay, what if you need that picture of your cat sometime in the future? Having to pick and choose what you keep on your phone it's annoying and frustrating, but thankfully a new company is promising to fix it.

In 2015 a startup called Nextbit pitched its smartphone, Robin, on Kickstarter. The idea was very popular, and they sprinted past their goal of $500,000, and ended up raising $1.3 million in total. Now, the phone is on sale to the general public. The major idea behind the Robin is to never run out of storage space on your phone. Every Robin comes with 32 GB of storage on the phone itself, and 100 GB of storage in the cloud, and the phone works in efficient ways to move your stuff from one place to the other.

Everyone’s had their #phone run out of storage before and it’s frustrating as hell trying to figure out what to delete. #Nextbit thinks it’s solved that problem with its $349 ‘cloud-first’ smartphone that makes sure you never run out of space. The phone is unique because it automatically adapts to how you use it, removing apps and infrequently accessed data to the cloud so it doesn’t take up local space. Inside is a Snapdragon 808 processor, 3GB RAM, 32GB of storage, a 13-megapixel rear camera and 5-megapixels on the front. It’s also got NFC, a fingerprint sensor and Bluetooth 4.0 LE. The phone has already raised more than $900k funding on @Kickstarter with 19 days to go. [by @findingnewo #TheNextWeb]

A photo posted by The Next Web (@thenextweb) on Sep 11, 2015 at 7:19am PDT

The Robin's version of Android software figures out what apps and photos you don't use very often, and then moves those to the cloud for safe-keeping. If you want to bring those back it's easy as, just tap on them and it downloads them back to your phone. The phone backs up your data whenever your phone is plugged in and connected to Wi-Fi. Handy.

The phone costs $399USD and isn't yet available in NZ, but if it's a hit overseas it'll surely be coming to our shores eventually. 

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