G+_Ken H Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Wow, the way this is written I'd totally reconsider purchasing one if I were Ron Richards here. I wasn't interested in this to begin with but what he says here validates my concerns for sure. What do you all think? Originally shared by Ron Amadeo Nextbit Robin Review It's cool to see a new smartphone OEM, but I don't think there are any good ideas here. I think most people are happy with 32GB of storage, but if you were going after the storage demographic, they would have been totally happy with an SD slot instead of this overly complicated cloud setup that (if you use it away from a Wi-Fi connection) will use a ton of data. They spent so much time, money, and effort building a storage solution that is all-around worse than just giving the thing expandable memory. http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/02/nextbit-robin-review-novel-hardware-absurd-cloud-storage/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Gary Volk Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 I have not read too much yet but my concern was what happens when nextbits servers go down? Now you can't get the app or photo or whatever you need. What happens when nextbit goes belly up? Now your phone is just like every other phone without storage. I like the looks of this phone, just don't think their cloud solution is going to make me want one. Give me a micro SD option or let me use my cloud storage, Google drive, Dropbox or my NAS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Werner Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Yeah a lot of the article focuses on the same questions there TwoBit Gary Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Paul Werner I had the same thoughts about Ron when I read the interview, though I have a feeling flo had a serious chat with him after the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Werner Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Marlon Thompson yeah it did seem that way by how she was talking/looking. It would be interesting to see Ron try it out but I'm not so sure this is the phone he'd really be looking for Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 I know he has an issue with the size but I got to try out the 6p a few weeks ago, its such a great phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Werner Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 Oh yeah I've had the 6P since it launched and love it. I had to get used to the size too but all the things you get with it (I was coming from a Nexus 5) outweigh the bulkyness IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_L I Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 I'm not so sure I agree with the conclusions. Most of the problems with he had with the Nextbit algorithm and the lack of information sound like things that are always present in a 1.0 release and easily fixed in subsequent releases. Also, the SD card as an alternative also doesn't sound like something that is equivalent because of Android's well chronicled relationship with removable storage. It's definitely a limited use case, but I think the review was a bit harsh for a 1.0 release for this company's first product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Werner Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Lionel D I get you but at the same time it's more about them creating a solution for a problem that does exist. Especially since that well chronicled relationship is no longer a thing to worry about with Marshmallow and it's adoptable storage. I'm not so sure that he's just writing it to be harsh but to point out things he notices so 1) users can be aware before they buy into it and 2) so Nextbit can know what to improve upon (since a lot of it can be better handled with software updates). It's just that for most people when they really think about it they will realize they don't need to buy into a system like this when there are simpler more effective methods of storing a log of things Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_L I Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Paul Werner either way, I do think the concept of backing up apps in full to the cloud is a pretty cool one. If the SD card features in Marshmallow prove to be as advertised, maybe not as much, but who knows - maybe the concept can be applied to something else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Marlon Thompson Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Small caveat with the SD card features in marshmallow because it treats sd card storage like onboard storage it means that you shouldn't just be swapping out SD cards like we are accustomed to. The guys over at Android Central have talked about this a couple of times on their podcast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Paul Werner Posted February 19, 2016 Share Posted February 19, 2016 Yeah I mean it doesn't let you use it in any device when you adopt it as internal storage true but (at least for me) that's a reasonable caveat when you can transfer files to the adopted storage in many other ways outside of popping it in and out of the device. If I didn't have the US LTE version of the SHIELD Tablet then I'd be able to test it out to see how well this works in practice. I'm just waiting for Nvidia to push out the update they pushed to the WiFi and K1 versions to the LTE version. I'm not entirely sure why they didn't push it at the same time since all the past android updates to this one came out at the same time as the WiFi model Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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