Gaming PC company Razer buys Nextbit

Press release from Razer:

Financial details of the transaction, which closed earlier this month, were not disclosed.

“Nextbit is one of the most exciting companies in the mobile space,” says Razer Co-Founder and CEO Min-Liang Tan. “Razer has a track record of disrupting industries where our technology and ability to design and innovate have allowed us to dominate categories with longstanding incumbents, such as the peripherals and laptop categories. With the talent that Nextbit brings to Razer, we look forward to unleashing more disruption and growing our business in new areas.”

According to CNET [Warning: auto-playing videos galore there], the Robin phone looks like it’ll be Nextbit’s last:

“As for future products,” Moss told CNET, “I’m strictly forbidden from breathing a word about them.” They won’t necessarily be gaming related, he added.

The Robin was originally touted as the first cloud-based phone, offloading apps and files to a Nextbit service. The project received US$1,362,343 of funding through Kickstarter back in 2015.