RED’s modular Hydrogen One phone looks even crazier in its patent application
Last week we learned that RED, a company best known for making high-quality digital cinema cameras, is going to dip into the smartphone market with something called the Hydrogen One. The company announced the phone with a screaming hot price tag of $1,195 and up, but revealed little else aside from a few things: it will offer 3D (and “4D”) visuals and audio that will “ASSAULT YOUR SENSES,” the phone will be carrier-unlocked and run Android, and it will be modular.
Studying a patent application that RED submitted for a “Modular Digital Camera and Cellular Phone,” we can get a sense of just how modular the company’s thinking. But if you thought the phone alone was crazy, buckle up. In the pending patent, RED imagines a smartphone like the…
