Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “The Most Expensive Phone I’ll Never Use…”.
So, a little while ago, I made a video on this device right here kind of iconic at this point iconic for the wrong reasons. It feels like a weapon. It probably could be a weapon. In fact, almost everybody who commented on this particular smartphone viewed it as a disappointment. This, of course, is the red hydrogen smartphone. That’S a company with credibility in the camera space, delivering professional-grade video cinema cameras, but no experience here, not with smartphones, so when they said they were gon na make a smartphone a lot of people got really excited. They were like well, this could be the smartphone with the best camera. For example, I went out and I pre-order not this model, but the more expensive titanium version. I’Ve actually got it.
It finally showed up now this thing was delayed, but read did something kind of cool. While people were waiting for their titanium versions, they sent over a free, aluminum version. In the meantime, while you were waiting, that’s cool this one is thirteen hundred bucks right now. Sixteen hundred dollars u.s., I thought it would make sense to unbox this and do a quick comparison.
Visually speaking, I don’t know of another titanium smartphone on planet earth, but this also offers up an opportunity to kind of talk a little bit about Reds future in the smartphone game and some suggestions I have but first things. First, let’s check this out. It’S kind of cool-looking oof, it’s heavy, much like the other one.
It’S a rugged weapon like looking thing, not a claim to fame here is the 3d functionality. But as we all know, I mean that kind of it didn’t pan out didn’t catch fire as far as TVs were concerned. With that feature, it didn’t catch fire with the Nintendo device. You remember the 3d S construction, though it’s like cyborg future carbon fiber titanium. It’S all the buzzwords I mean this is probably what you would be using in the post-apocalyptic cyberpunk future.
You can see. We got these pins here on the bottom, a lot of promise there with modules and accessories and so on, none of which we’ve seen yet, but that just highlights how complicated and difficult it is to get into the smartphone market and to keep up with the times. The smartphone marketplace moving so fast. I don’t know how customers feel who pre-ordered this, because it’s hard to be mad because you got this free phone, but then in general the way that the device was accepted by people. I didn’t read a single review or watch a single video from a customer or from a tech channel that was like this is the one. This is what you need. This device is definitely not concerned with screen to body ratio. You kind of had to search and hunt for a reason for this thing to exist because it wasn’t the best at the thing you had hoped it would be the best at, and that, of course, is the camera unit, not good.
Everything is very blurry, glasses list. 3D capable display, there’s a novelty factor associated with showing off that type of content, watching it yourself for the first time, second time kind of 3d, but not very far, it’s not like out here it’s just like a little bit away from the display. It’S super hard. What do I even I mean I can’t imagine carrying this thing eventually you’re just like.
I just want to see my content, the way that I expect some relatively large speaker units on it, so it can deliver some decent sound, still, not the best that I actually heard on any device. [ Applause ], I’m a bit disappointed myself. I had some high expectations for this phone and I definitely didn’t expect to be sitting here talking about just receiving the titanium version. Maybe the smartphone itself.
The smartphone form factor is the wrong place for red to innovate. This brand very popular in the professional camera space. The problem, though, with red cameras, is that they’re, big they’re gigantic and and that’s good for what they do, but it leaves a gap. You know, there’s a gap somewhere between the smartphone and the huge professional camera.
That’S where I think red should be playing. That’S where I think they could innovate if red had a compact pocket Cinema Camera with a touchscreen on the back that ran Android, so you could share from it immediately. So you could get better quality stuff that could then interface immediately with social media YouTube and the other things that you do on Android. That could be compelling interchangeable lenses on a device like that could be compelling a bigger sensor than expected on a device like that. Could be compelling some of the things that held back those previous Samsung Android based cameras was the fact that they just were bad cameras that so happened to have Android slapped onto him.
But what about a good camera? What about a red camera with an Android back and then red caliber, sensors and so on on the front end? So here’s my advice to red, kill this product. I don’t see it happening. I don’t see this picking up steam.
I don’t know who this is. For. I’M a kid named plenty of cameras that are better than this one.
Of course, the pixel, the latest Samsung and so on. That marketplace is moving too quickly, but you could create this whole new marketplace somewhere between where you’re at with the pro cameras and the smart phone itself, that hybrid product that could be cool. You .