Gadgetory

hey what is up guys I'm Kim PhD here and this is the next fit Robin and it's supposed to be the smartphone that never runs out of storage at least that's what they claimed so as a new $400 smartphone this thing is actually really interesting anytime you get an entire phone made by a brand new company there's some decisions that have to be made to put it on the map and the Robin is no exception so next fit Robin is this very squared off rectangular phone with tight corners it kind of looks a little uncomfortable at first but it has this sort of soft touch finish and it actually feels really good in the hand it has a decent balance of weight it's got well fitted parts and it's durable enough that it feels like you could hurt someone with this thing so it's well-built it feels good you've got your power button on the right hand side which is also a fingerprint reader and your tiny volume buttons on the left hand side I think these might be the worst part of the build the buttons are small with very little travel and then the power button on the right it doesn't protrude at all so it can be kind of hard to tell which side is up without looking the fingerprint reader is actually really good though the speed and accuracy are on point and pro tip with the side placement like this I actually kind of like it you can have two fingers registered your left index finger and your right thumb for the way you grip the phone anyway USB type-c at the bottom left corner with a quick charging light and on the front dual stereo front-facing speakers I love this they're loud and clear so that's awesome for gaming listening to music and watching videos etc the great choice there now from here you can pick it up and use it kind of just like a normal four hundred hour Android smartphone it's running the latest version of Android 6.0 and it's a custom next bit skin which we'll get to in a second but a lot of the elements still feel pretty stock so like the notifications the lockscreen the quick settings etc the specs are pretty good too Snapdragon 808 3 gigabytes of RAM and a 2680 milliamp hour battery I'd say the performance to the specs were up to par pretty smooth throughout which is an occasional force close or a weird storage problem but the battery life was a little worse I was getting like three and a half hours of screen on time which is less than I expected out of a 5.2 inch 1080p display the 13 megapixel camera on the back was decent kind of reminded me of the BlackBerry Prive camera actually so colors out of it were fine and detail was fine but dynamic range was a little weak so a lot of stuff got overexposed but overall solid for the budget just a little slow to actually take the photos in a custom next fit camera app as you can see that shutter lag is real but so how is this the phone that doesn't run out of storage well all the magic is buried here in the next bit skin so every next bit Robin comes with 32 gigs of on-board storage but then also a hundred gigs of free cloud storage now right off the bat that's not unlimited but whatever that's a lot more than 32 gigs and then the Robin is supposed to be smart enough and it is to offload the oldest and least frequently used stuff from the internal storage straight to the cloud when it hasn't been accessed in a while so when you start to fill the 32 gigabytes old apps and old photos that haven't been opened in a while we'll move to the cloud and make room for more and the idea is for that to happen seamlessly almost without you ever having a notice now this is the next bit launcher and as you can see here all these app icons there is no app drawer so all of your apps here are spread across all your home screens and we can talk about whether we like that or not in another video but that's the way it's set up so you can tap an app if you want to get into it and it opens right up now you may have noticed some of the icons are grayed out so these are the apps that are offline or in the cloud and they're not stored on the device anymore when you click on them it takes a minute to download everything in the state you last left it in and then it opens up right where you left off and it takes a good second even on solid Wi-Fi but this archiving and restoring process is the big selling point for the Robin now if there are apps you use all the time that you don't want to get archived you can swipe down on the icon to pin them pinned apps never go to the cloud they're pinned on the device forever of course if you're using it all the time you shouldn't even need to pin them it shouldn't accidentally get archived if you use it a lot but yeah that's it that's the secret to Robin never running out of storage now for a $400 phone having potentially 132 gigs of storage is cool but it's also dependent on the internet and buying into that next bit system and I almost wouldn't buy this phone just for this feature in fact I buy this phone just for the fact that at its price it's actually a pretty solid Android smartphone and you can ignore all the next bit stuff and just use it like a normal phone toss on your launcher of choice you can route it Ramat the bootloader is actually unlocked out the box and they'll support loading CyanogenMod on it or something and they still honor the warranty so this is like a good phone for the price outside of their storage solution now if you were buying a mid-range phone specifically focusing on having lots of storage I look at something with a micro SD card slot like maybe the oneplus X because you can go past 132 gigs but if that's not hugely important and you're choosing between this and something like Nexus 5x or oneplus 2 it's definitely worth considering this the build quality is up to par the specs and performance are pretty solid and the user experience isn't too crazy and obviously you can change it the way you like it now I'll say this if this were a normal $400 vanilla Android smartphone with a micro SD card slot instead of the next bit cloud stuff it might have been a hit but it's cool to see this type of cloud-based storage solution in action props to next bit I like it thanks for watching guys I'll talk to you guys in the next one peace