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Nextbit Robin

Cloud-based smartphone by Nextbit

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Nextbit Robin was an Android-based smartphone manufactured by Nextbit Systems, a San Francisco-based startup founded in 2012 by former Google Android team members Tom Moss and Mike Chan, which was acquired by Razer Inc. in January 2017. The phone was marketed as "Cloud-first" where it utilized cloud storage to store data which wouldn't be used for a long period of time, thus saving space in the device's local storage.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Nextbit Robin” is cloud-based smartphone by Nextbit. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Nextbit, Robin and Cloud-based, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2012, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Nextbit, Robin and Cloud-based is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 9, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2012 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nextbit Robin” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.