RED's Hydrogen phone project is dead

RED's Hydrogen project is no more. 

Founder Jim Jannard said so on the company's forum (via The Verge), saying he'll be "shutting down the HYDROGEN project, ending a career that has included Oakley, RED Digital Cinema and HYDROGEN." 

He also announced his retirement due to "a few health issues."

Jannard said that the Hydrogen One phone — the only smartphone the company has launched — will "continue to be supported in the future."

The move isn't particularly surprising due to the extremely poor reviews Hydrogen One has gotten, and the company's own admission in July that finishing the phone's feature and fixing its issues was "impossible," allegedly due to poor performance of RED's manufacturing partner in China.  Read more...

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