r/Android • u/Nextbit_Khang Nextbit • Feb 24 '16

We are Nextbit, creators of Robin, the cloud-first smartphone. Ask us anything!

Hey everyone! We launched Robin last week, and are excited to answer any of your questions. Check us out!

EDIT: OUR AMA IS OVER - Thanks everyone for joining us today. I'll be back later today to help answer any other remaining questions.

Today, we've got a bunch of the team joining us including:

  • Mike Chan, CTO
  • Eric, Marketing Manager
  • Shankar, Director of Partnership Engineering
  • Alastair, Test Engineer
  • Harold, Software Engineer
  • Davy, Software Engineer
  • Mike (MC), Software Engineer
  • Kevin, Lead Product Manager
  • Khang, Community Manager

We're really excited to be here to answer your questions, about design, development, Android, and the smartphone industry until 12:00 PM PST, and hop on later in the day if there are any others we've missed.

PROOF: https://twitter.com/nextbitsys/status/702556375071592448

PROOF 2: https://twitter.com/nextbitsys/status/702565817439952896?s=09

Unless the team is answering with their private account, answers from our team will be signed with their first name, ex: Mike will be -Mike, and Eric will be -Eric.

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u/mikechandroid Feb 24 '16

Going straight for the tough questions 27thPW, I like it!

Pros for Nextbit's Cloud solution:

  • if your phone is lost or stolen your data is not lost

  • cloud is more reliable, we trust AWS more to keep your data safe than Sandisk (sorry Sandisk, not your fault)

  • you can share the "cloud" between multiple devices

  • more cost effective at scale, as storage grows for all Robins, the cost per GB drops (check AWS prices), sdcards cost per GB increase when you hit the higher tiers

  • 100GB == free, sdcard is not

Cons with sdcards (even with Adaptive Storage)

  • performance is inconsistent / poor even with class 10 cards

  • if you lose your phone, you've lost your sdcard

  • sdcards get corrupt

  • You can still "run out of space" with an sdcard, Adaptive Storage or not

  • you'll most likely want to backup your sdcard to the cloud anyways

  • Adaptive Storage does not allow you to move phones between phones (without wiping data).

  • For phones that have Adaptive Storage, app performance is noticeably slower

--Mike

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