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Source: http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/11/9129959/nexbit-smartphone-launch-september

 

Nextbit, a mobile developer run by former Google, Apple, Amazon, and HTC employees, plans to unveil its first 'Premium tier' Android smartphone on September 1st between $300 and $400 and will be, in the words of chief executive Tom Moss, "friggin' awesome.

 

 

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It needs to be better than the OnePlus Two, cause otherwise it's useless.

 

 

 

 

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pics and specs? its blocked from my network :( (school D: )

No pics and no specs :P

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every thing  not coming from big companies has been a failure. This is one

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no specs or pics/concept art. meh..

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Source: http://www.theverge.com/2015/8/11/9129959/nexbit-smartphone-launch-september

 

Nextbit, a mobile developer run by former Google, Apple, Amazon, and HTC employees, plans to unveil its first 'Premium tier' Android smartphone on September 1st between $300 and $400 and will be, in the words of chief executive Tom Moss, "friggin' awesome.

you could quote the article, and maybe put the picture from the article here?  It makes news posts more interesting, just for future reference.

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every thing not coming from big companies has been a failure. This is one

Maybe not everything , but it looks like a hype-train fire starter to hear about a ceo claiming the future product would be frigging awesome

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It needs to be better than the OnePlus Two, cause otherwise it's useless.

Not really, the OnePlus Two is going to be using an invite system so if nextbit can make a phone that is as good as the One Plus Two but that people will actually be able to buy they will be very successful. 

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Not really, the OnePlus Two is going to be using an invite system so if nextbit can make a phone that is as good as the One Plus Two but that people will actually be able to buy they will be very successful. 

As if the invite system prevented anyone from buying the OnePlus One. You could buy invites on ebay for 5€...

Also the new invite system won't last as long as the first one, because OnePlus is now a lot faster at building the Two.

And then there is also the ZenFone 2 which seems to rek even higher end phones at half of their price...

 

 

 

 

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If they make it cost 300-400$ in Canada with good specs then sure xD otherwise no thank you.

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Not really, the OnePlus Two is going to be using an invite system so if nextbit can make a phone that is as good as the One Plus Two but that people will actually be able to buy they will be very successful. 

I read yesterday on their forums that the One Plus Two might end up being sold on Amazon.com.

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I read yesterday on their forums that the One Plus Two might end up being sold on Amazon.com.

What you probably read was that they are selling on Amazon.in in India, they used the same distribution method for the one.

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In fact, Nexbit's big promise is that its smartphone won't just be good, but will improve over time as software updates augment its performance and cloud services expand its storage.

That right there made me lose interest. Because fuck the cloud. Until serious data plans are available everywhere for cheap, then I don't see constantly downloading things as needed to be an acceptable replacement for physical storage.

 

 

every thing  not coming from big companies has been a failure. This is one

That's not true at all. OnePlus has been a huge success. As has Xiaomi.

Big companies are having a lot bigger problems than smaller ones as of current.

 

As if the invite system prevented anyone from buying the OnePlus One. You could buy invites on ebay for 5€...

Also the new invite system won't last as long as the first one, because OnePlus is now a lot faster at building the Two.

And then there is also the ZenFone 2 which seems to rek even higher end phones at half of their price...

Ehhh they weren't that cheap at the beginning. I know. I made $70ish off each one I had.

I don't think they've greatly increased the supply. They need the hype in order to carry out sales over the course of the year. They might slightly increase, but it won't be that great.

The ZenFone 2 is all right. Nothing that great, to be honest. The battery life is meh.

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every thing  not coming from big companies has been a failure. This is one

So to succeed you must be big then? Ask HTC that right now, ask BlackBerry too. Ask Apple back in the early-mid 90's.

 

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Hm steve jobs company after he got kicked from apple named next. And all these former employees nextbit hm

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It needs to be better than the OnePlus Two, cause otherwise it's useless.

Oneplus two is absolute dog shit, this is coming from an early july 2014 supporter of oneplus one. I just got my first one replaced by thier warranty and i LOVE OPO, i hate op2 its garbage. 

 

I think you meant to say it needs to be better than the moto x style because that there is a real phone... 

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Call it premium tier, runs android. Lol'd so hard mfers want to find me. 

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Oneplus two is absolute dog shit, this is coming from an early july 2014 supporter of oneplus one. I just got my first one replaced by thier warranty and i LOVE OPO, i hate op2 its garbage. 

 

I think you meant to say it needs to be better than the moto x style because that there is a real phone... 

I haven't used the Two yet. What's so bad about it?

 

 

 

 

 

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