Nextbit reveals Robin, a smartphone that's nestled in the cloud ($349)

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Robin -- which just launched on Kickstarter for $299 and up -- is a charmingly boxy phone with a 5.2-inch 1080p screen, a USB-C port, and one of Qualcomm's hexa-core Snapdragon 808 chipsets with 3GB of RAM. That's the very same slab of silicon you'll find in LG's G4, and if the rumors hold up, Robin should give LG's forthcoming Nexus plenty of competition in the performance department too. Not shabby at all, but the Nextbit team couldn't be prouder of how its software differs from regular ol' Android. Swiping through an early build of the Robin's software feels like stock Lollipop with a twist you might miss. The thing is, Robin only has 32GB of storage built right into it, but it's linked very tightly to 100GB of cloud storage. Enter the secret sauce: Robin's software will figure out what apps and data have gone untouched lately and shuffle them up into ethereal storage space. You shouldn't have to delete things when your phone runs out of space, team Nextbit says, because your phone should have already done it.

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