Red Hydrogen Two: "It's all China's fault"
The Red Hydrogen Two is coming. Red's founder comments on the disadvantages of the first phone and blames the Chinese.
Jim Jannard, president of the camera company Red, has announced the Red Hydrogen Two in a post on the project website h4user. Plus the camera module that was already promised for the Hydrogen One.
In his usual dramatic style - Jannard is known as an emotional person with few filters - he talks about the mishaps during the development of the Red Hydrogen One.
New phone for new camera
Nothing is yet known about the technical specifications of the Red Hydrogen Two. Only that it should be better in every respect. What is exciting, however, is that Jim Jannard has announced a camera with the project name "Komodo". As already promised for the Red Hydrogen One, this should interact seamlessly with the smartphone and deliver "unprecedented" images. To achieve this, Jannard has brought the development and production of the camera system from China to Los Angeles, where the Red cameras are already manufactured.
Project Komodo is set to far exceed the expectations of its current users. The announcement comes with a but: Jannard admits that Komodo will deliver excellent images, but will not be able to compete with its big siblings from Red. However, the cameras will be a lot cheaper, writes Jannard.
China, the big villain
Jannard describes the problems that arose during the production of the Red Hydrogen One. Foxconn as the final manufacturer did a great job. The problem arose earlier in the supply chain. The original device manufacturer (ODM) had promised a lot and delivered little.
The ODM was responsible for the "mechanical packaging of the design" of the Hydrogen One, including new technologies and software integration with Qualcomm's system-on-a-chip. This only worked to a limited extent. "Getting the ODM to fix known issues with the Hydrogen One turned out to be difficult. Impossible, in fact. It irritated the hell out of me and flooded our reactor."
Furthermore, Jannard understands the frustration of Hydrogen users. Therefore, those who have bought a Hydrogen One will be "significantly favoured" with the Hydrogen Two. This applies to both the price and the delivery. <p
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