The first thousand Kickstarter backers of-Nextbit's cloud-first Robin smartphone are set to receive their new devices on February 16th, the company's chief designer Scott Croyle revealed at CES today. Croyle brought the latest iteration of the Robin — which is more or less the final shipping version — to the Verge lounge at CES, where he talked about the thinking behind Robin and what makes it stand apart from all the very aggressive and difficult Android smartphone competition out there. As to the Robin itself, it's not markedly different from-the device I saw in London back in December.



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