Jim Jannard, RED founder and the main man behind the HYDROGEN project, has announced his team started working on the second generation phone – HYDROGEN Two. They are also redesigning the camera module with a new sensor. HYDROGEN One customers will be able to get the new phone and the camera module earlier and for a better price. HYDROGEN One – RED’s first smartphone. How will the HYDROGEN Two look like? First, let me briefly summarize the history of the HYDROGEN project. RED officialy announced their first smartphone – the HYDROGEN One – almost exactly two years ago, in July 2017. Only after having started developement of the phone, RED realized the real size of the project and vast amount of challenges they will have to face. The HYDROGEN One release was postponed few times from initialy promised Q1 2018 to Q4 2018. Some pre-orders shipped by the end of Q3 2018. There were even more issues with the titanium version of the phone, so that one got delivered even later. As it usually is the case with first generation of any product, the RED HYDROGEN One wasn’t a perfect phone. Many users were complaining about the build quality and reliability of the phone. I noticed that especially the fingerprint sensor was breaking down very quickly. In fact, Mashable called it “The worst tech product of 2018.” Ouch. RED also promised to bring a complex ecosystem of add-on modules to the phone. Probably the most anticipated was the cinema camera...
Published By: CineD - Wednesday, 24 July, 2019