RED Hydrogen One Likely to Feature an Outdated Snapdragon 835
Jun. 30, 2018As RED buckles up finally make the Hydrogen Oneavailable to buyers this summer, the smartphone appears to have paid a visit to the benchmarking platformGeekbench. This reveals the specifications of the smartphone includingan outdated Snapdragon 835 processor.Image Courtesy: MKBHD
While the processor is not at all bad, we would have appreciated if RED could revamp the chipset to a more recent,Snapdragon 845. The smartphone is designed for power users, especially professional photographers or videographers, and adding the latest chipset will add more power to handle the demanding tasks.
Aside from the Snapdragon 835, theRED Hydrogen One will come with 6GB of RAMand Android Oreo 8.1. Among other interesting features of the smartphone is its3D holographic displaywhich RED is very possessive about and hasn’t let journalists around the world share a glimpse of. The display will be able to convert almost every form of content into 3D content on it as well as play VR, AR, and Mixed Reality content without a dedicated headset.
The RED Hydrogen One will also featuresupport for modular enhancementssimilar toMoto Mods. These will primarily include additional lenses to boost the imaging capabilities of the device, and will alsoallow users to hook the phone up to high-end RED cameras, presumably for easy syncing and editing of the recorded media.
The RED Hydrogen One will be sold in partnership with Verizon and AT&T, starting at a price of $1,295 for the aluminum variant and going as high as $1,595 for the Titanium one.
