Gadgetory

chances are you seeing this message on your phone you know there's typically three ways to deal with this you could buy a phone with more storage or one with expandable storage which most people don't do you could plug your phone into your computer offload all the photos and videos that you've taken to make more space or worse you could delete apps and photos and videos and all the other fun stuff you use for your phone for to make room for more fun stuff but what if you didn't have to do any of that well that's the promise with the next bit Robin on its surface the Robin is a pretty typical mid-range Android phone with a pretty nice design it's $400 and runs Android 6.0 marshmallow it has a 5.2 inch screen that's sharp enough but a little bit washed out a Qualcomm Snapdragon 808 processor and three gigabytes of RAM a fingerprint sensor a 13 megapixel camera and 5-megapixel selfie camera front-facing speakers and a USB C charging port with fast charging all that's pretty common stuff for a mountain smartphone the Robins design is arguably more interesting than its spec sheet it's sharp and angular and it's soft plastic finish stands out among the sea of aluminum phones without making it feel cheap it's pastel colors are also really eye-catching and it's refreshing to see after staring at so many gray gold and silver smartphones for so long but specs and design are just side stories with a Robin it's real appeal is that it's never supposed to run out of storage has a typical 32 gigabytes of on-board storage but the next big is each Robin owner 100 gigabytes of cloud storage - that effectively gives you the storage space of a phone with a 128 gigabytes of built-in storage for much lower price this cloud storage isn't like what you get with Dropbox or Google Drive either next bit storage is solely for storing the stuff that doesn't fit on your phone while still providing easy access to it the Robin software does this in a few unique ways it will upload all of the photos you capture leaving smaller versions of them on your phone and it will upload all your apps and their data to the cloud when you start to run out of space those uploaded apps are removed from your phone storage letting you continue to shoot photos and download new apps without worrying about running out of space uploaded apps and games show up as grayed out icons in the launcher they can be restored on demand complete with all of your settings and progress that was there when the app was removed from your phone it's a pretty slick system but can take a few minutes to download a nap when you're out and about you can pin apps to the phone so they'll never be removed and you can easily see a list of all the archived apps saved in the cloud you can also manage when the Robyn will do with backups what will be backed up and clean up space from backed up apps on demand the system is cool but it isn't foolproof aside from a long time it takes to restore backed up app it doesn't yet backup video to next Fitz Cloud which takes up more storage space on your phone than really anything else the Robin isn't the fastest or best performing smartphone you can get and it's camera isn't as good as an iPhone galaxy or Nexus phone but it does a base is just fine and it does last a full day between charges it's about exactly what I'd expect from a $400 Android smartphone at this point so it's real pitch here is never running out of space or at least giving you more storage than you might expect from a phone at this price and in that respect the Robin delivers it with style