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The plan is to support for at least 2 years -sc

We are trying to build something new, both in the short term (a stand-out design, great specs at a great price, and solving the storage issue) and in the long term (making smarthphones smarter, having them adapt more to you, leveraging the infinite resources of the cloud to make your phone perform better). If that excites you, join us! - tm

When did you start spelling your name with a K instead of C?

with the current smartphone market, if i were to layout apple along with all the android phone on a table, nothing stands out. nothing. it's a sea of stuff but because everybody is able to now to metal (thx to htc and apple), it's generally meant that the construction quality has gone up but the overall design has become very static.

with robin, i started from a very personal standpoint. i really couldn't imagine a world where we're all carrying around the same stuff...sounds boring, no?

i wanted to jettison some of the known paradigms (black sells, silver sells, gotta do metal, brushing is more valuable, silver chamfers make it look more shiny and expensive, need to round corners to make it look smaller) and find value elsewhere. it might seem little odd but robin's premium design comes down to three things....reduction of details, simplification of form and use of color. by tackling these 3 items, we were able to arrive a new design paradigm that i believe is original and fresh. -sc

Great questions abechung!

Like other OEMs we do power tuning on drivers and hardware configurations. One big takeaway from my days on Android working on Power Management was that it was not enough to just focus on the device. You have to optimizing the full end-to-end system, which includes the device and servers. We're doing this at Nextbit, and designing our syncing solution from day one to be power efficient.

We hear your concerns about battery life, and its an area we want to tackle in the future! :)

I would expect benchmarks around early Jan.

-mc

Hey Abe. Good question about the camera. We are doing everything we can to get the best performance out of our camera module. Some specific things we are going: 1. We are doing the camera driver development and tuning outside of Foxconn with a third party. While Foxconn is a great partner, we want to deliver the best possible performance so recognize the need to invest here. 2. the hardware engineering team behind the DXO One, Design Shift, is also supporting us in the engineering of Robin. -sc