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/Nextbit_Khang Feb 24 '16

Robin will come with a bootloader that is locked. However, it is easily unlockable through fastboot commands: fastboot oem unlock-go.

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u/dextersgenius Feb 24 '16

Thanks! It's also good to know that Robin has fastboot support. :)

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '16

What sort of warranty limitations are put in place when the end user does this?

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u/Nextbit_Khang Feb 24 '16

We believe that your phone is yours. Flash a ROM, kernel, whatever! If you brick your device, we'll cover it.

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u/housry23 Feb 24 '16

Wow! This right here makes me want to own one. Thank you!

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u/C4D3NZA Feb 25 '16

This is super impressive, I'll definitely be looking at you guys next time I need a phone. (Also the design of the Robin is incredible, keep it up)

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u/ni-THiNK Feb 25 '16

This is awesome

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '16

Elsewhere in the thread Nextbit said accidental physical damage isn't covered. But if a user bricks their phone, you are covering it?

That's kind of lame. Accidental is accidental, physical or otherwise.

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u/QuestionsEverythang Feb 24 '16

Why is it unlock-go instead of the standard unlock?

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u/Nextbit_Khang Feb 25 '16

As a former Nexus owner, I was very used to unlock only, so it's just different. I'm not sure if the new Nexus devices have the same unlock process. For a more technical answer, I'll reach out to our engineering team.

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u/Dekzter Feb 26 '16

Living up to your username

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '16

Maybe to intentionally break scripts (or require you to look up what it actually is), because there may be issues related to blindly unlocking without checking some things?