RED HYDROGEN ONE FINGERPRINT HARDWARE NOT AVAILABLE ANDROID
The RED Hydrogen One runs Android of course and the company has done some launcher and icon-pack customizations as well as adding some 4V 3D specific bundled apps.Ībove is a 2D photo of the 2D view of a photo shot with the Hydrogen One’s camera. My demo required headphones, and the show floor was probably too loud to get a sample of the speakers anyway. At least, according to the spokespeople at the RED NYCC booth here. But look at that cool “RED” logo in the bottom chin! Oh, also, we’ve got some great speakers in there. It was extreemely cool! There will be a 3D video calling app for this phone at some point so that you can 3D video call other people who have the same device.ĭo you like phones with thin bezels? This isn’t one of them. I tried out the selfie camera and could see myself in 3D right on the screen. The top bezel has a whole slew of sensors as well as the stereo cameras for recording “4V” 3D content. It looks like the screw holes holding the thing together are covered by little “H” covers.
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The industrial design here is pretty great too. It’s much more comfortable than the thin & shiny phones that are popular these days. The grips along the edges really make the phone easy to hold. You’re going to be able to have some excellent motor memory for these volume buttons! Too often we get phones with just a tiny sliver volume rocker that’s difficult to feel for.
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The other edge also has these grippy indentations and fins along with two big volume up/down buttons. Personally, I think this is a great location for the fingerprint sensor as your finger is probably going to hold the phone in this position anyway. The flat area on this edge is where the fingerprint sensor is. Doesn’t feel quite as nice as the dedicated camera button on the old Lumia 1020‘s camera grip attachment, but it’s better than nothing, and certainly better than using a volume key. It’s great to see a new phone with a dedicated camera button as you can see in the above photo as indicated by the red dot. There’s also a “Lit by Leia” badge that’s referring to the Leia 4-view glasses-free 3D display. It will supposedly support Nikon, Sony, and Canon lenses, but perhaps those will require either different module versions or different mounting adapters.Īlso on the back we’ve got the RED Hydrogen logo which is pretty eye catching and prominant. The one that I’m personally most looking forward to is the Cinema 2D module which will allow attaching regular DSLR camera lenses and will include its own imaging sensor. There aren’t currently any modules available and there won’t be at launch either. These are meant for expansion packs ( modules) just like what Motorola does with their Moto Mods.
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Speaking of Motorola, there is also a set of contact pins on the back. Although the camera cookie area does look kind of like something Motorola does.
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The RED Hydrogen One refreshingly doesn’t look like any other phone on the market today. Both the van and tent were showing off the glasses-free 3D display so that attendees could get a taste of the holography on the new phone. Red had their own booth at NY Comic Con 2018 with a van and a small, un-lit tent. We’re not even talking about the Houdini models that were sent to some of the pre-order customers who volunteered to forfiet their pre-orders to be beta testers and get early access to the devices. Now, these models are not the final phones that will be released in November - just early development versions. At least now, while I’m at New York Comic Con 2018, I finally get to see an actual physical sample of the phone. Yeah, this cinematography company has had my $1,300 for over 15 months with nothing to show for it. I fondly remember pre-ordering the RED Hydrogen One back in the summer… of 2017!