Robin "the cloud based android phone"

"Nothing excited me in mobile in the past few years," Tom Moss says, leaning back in an office chair. Far as he's concerned, smartphone makers -- especially those working with Android — have spent way too much time crafting hardware and not nearly enough effort on innovating software. That's why, when the bug to build something new bit again, Moss gathered an Android dream team to build a "cloud-first" smartphone called Robin.

http://www.engadget.com/2015/09/01/nextbit-robin/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget&ncid=rss_semi

Its an interesting idea- I'm actually surprised people aren't tying handsets to "cloud based cpu's" yet.

This was one of the concepts Cognation and Mexuar were looking to deploy on the SavaJe mobile OS in 2006.

Removing the device from the "services" we felt was the key to leapfrogging Moores Law permanently.