Gallery: Nextbit's Robin Is Another Pretty Phone—But With Infinite Storage

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    Robin's made to be a beautiful, high-end smartphone, and also a showcase for Nextbit's remarkable cloud software.
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    The four dots on the back of the phone are LEDs, signaling when your phone is synchronizing.
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    The Robin comes in two colors---this is "Mint."
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    After trying dozens of shapes and sizes, Nextbit and its design partner, Branch Creative, landed on a simple rectangle.
  • Building Robin required endless prototypes of all shapes and sizesand with every imaginable combination of buttons.
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    Building Robin required endless prototypes, of all shapes and sizes---and with every imaginable combination of buttons.
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    Picking a color isn't as simple as choosing white and black. They went through lots of options, with help from a book titled "Nearly Neutrals."
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    The design team played with lots of different themes, before landing on a few key words, like "approachable," that would define Robin.
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