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Red Hydrogen Two confirmed despite first phone's failure
While Red's first foray into the smartphone market failed to live up to the digital cinematography company's stellar reputation, its founder Jim Jannard has today confirmed that a much-improved follow-up to the troubled Red Hydrogen One handset is in the works.
In a candid post on Red's own H4Vuser.net forums, Jannard placed most of the blame for the Hydrogen One's failings on an unnamed Chinese ODM (Original Design Manufacturer), saying, "Getting our ODM in China to finish the committed features and fix known issues on the HYDROGEN One has proven to be beyond challenging. Impossible actually."
However, it appears the phone's successor is on the right track, with Jannard explaining that "after months of vetting a new design to manufacture [in-]house, we have begun the work on the HYDROGEN Two, virtually from scratch, at a new ODM that is clearly more capable of building and supporting the product we (and our customers) demand."
Also at Ars Technica.
Previously: RED Pitches a $1,200 Holographic Android Smartphone
$1,300 RED Hydrogen One Smartphone Fails to Impress Reviewers
(Score: 4, Insightful) by driverless on Wednesday July 31 2019, @01:37AM
It's not just that, it's a company with no previous experience in smartphones getting into what they presumably thought was an easy, lucrative market. Mass-producing smart phones is a long, long way from creating artisanal $50-80,000 cameras. Blaming China for their failure to deliver is easy, and in the current political climate very acceptable.