INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
After a delay,RED Hydrogen One was scheduled to arrive this month
And then it got delayed again until October/November
If and when the phone actually does arrive, however, odds are pretty good you&re not going actually buy the thing
After all, $1,295 is nearly half an Aibo
For most of us, these first official full pictures are the closest we&ll get to RED first smartphone, so enjoy them, I guess
Say what you will about the excessiveness of it all (and there plenty to say on that front), but the high-end camera maker is certainly
In addition to the 5.7 inch &holographic display& and the fact that it can double as a viewfinder for one of the company upcoming cameras,
the design definitely sets the handset apart.
RED bucking the nearly industry-wide trend toward minimalistic design language with all sorts
The sides, as CNET notes, are serrated like a knife — ostensibly to make the thing easier to hold, but mostly just to make it look cool
It the kind of phone design that screams, &please ask me what kind of phone I&m using, strange person on the street.& Then prepare yourself
for a five minute explanation of what &holographic display& means.
RED will start to seed a developers model of the phone in a small batch
of users at the end of the month
Preorder customers will start receiving the phone on October 9, and it will arriving in carrier stores (ATT, Telcel, Verizon) on November 2
