The "cloud first" Nextbit Robin smartphone is now on sale on Amazon, complete with a neat $100 price cut to celebrate its availability.
The smartphone hit Amazon on May 4, and for a limited time, it's available for just $299 instead of its regular $399 price point. This promo offer will expire on May 10.
The new price after the discount coincides with the starting price of the smartphone when it was still raising funds on Kickstarter, as Nextbit itself points out. The Nextbit Robin went on to raise more than $1.3 billion on the crowdfunding platform, and the price went up.
Amazon is now offering the unlocked version of the Nextbit Robin smartphone in two color options: Mint or Midnight. The handset is compatible only with GSM carriers, since the CDMA version promised at one point eventually got canceled.
As a reminder, the biggest selling point of the Nextbit Robin is its cloud storage solution. While the smartphone offers 32 GB of local, built-in storage capacity, it also taps the cloud for an additional 100 GB on Nextbit's servers. The handset automatically backs up users' content to the cloud, thus saving precious internal storage. With cloud storage available for your photos, unused apps and more content, the Nextbit Robin virtually eliminates storage woes without even requiring a microSD card to pick up the slack.
When it comes to the rest of the specifications, the Nextbit Robin features a 5.2-inch full HD display (1920 by 1080 pixels), a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor, 3 GB of RAM, a 13 megapixel rear camera, 5 megapixel front shooter and a fingerprint scanner, among the highlights. Connectivity options include Wi-Fi, 4G LTE, NFC and Bluetooth 4.0.
It's also interesting to note that the Robin is Nextbit's very first smartphone, which makes it even more impressive. Then again, Nextbit does not have newbies leading the charge - the company has noteworthy founders such as ex-Google and HTC veterans and experienced Android developers.
The Nextbit Robin also recently received a software update, which brought an improved camera experience, new emojis and other neat treats. On the other hand, the update also fried one device, but that's likely an isolated incident.
