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hey what's up guys I'm Cathy HD here and welcome to an update on the red hydrogen one this thing is so delayed it's silly but you might remember it from the head exclusive reveal video which was back in August 2017 so about a year ago the update is a couple weeks ago they sent out an email asking basically to every preorder if they wanted to participate in the hue Dini program which was basically a sort of a beta testing or a prototype testing where they'd send you one early and you sort of get to bug report and help them build this phone as they go which is really interesting I don't think I've seen anything quite like that from a phone in a while then again it's red this is a camera company that I think right now is discovering slowly how hard it is to build a good smartphone in this really competitive landscape and I think generally their development has been much slower than the competition but this is it this is one of the limited edition red hydrogen one hue Dini edition phones that will be made and shipped to those people who agree to be a part of it without any further ado let's go ahead and look in the box so this is it it comes in this all black cardboard unlabeled box it's kind of matte black but not really also excuse the bandage I don't think you really want to see the stitches in my finger right now it's a long story but we can get right into it if we open it at the top of this first box we get a little card that says inside this box you'll find an unlocked hydrogen one limited edition hue Dini model plus 128 gig micro SD card and an extended warranty at no charge nice and then that's this so this is a little red and black micro SD card since the phone has expandable storage and then we have this glass and metal I don't really know what this is honestly it says red medium machine hydrogen it's like a medallion it's kind of like a souvenir I guess that maybe you could stick to your desk or a computer or something it's not really clear what to do with it but it's high-quality so I'll keep it around cool anyway underneath that we get the label box with the phone in it it's packaged actually pretty similar to a lot of other red products I don't know if you've ever unboxed a red accessory or even a red camera or something like that you'll probably be familiar with these boxes with them magnets and everything it's high-quality so I'm a fan of that we open this up and we have the phone right up top hydrogen and we'll go ahead and and get that plastic off in a second but we also want to see what else is in the box we do have some paperwork at the top is this sort of a QuickStart guide which shows you how to get the phone up and running getting a SIM card in there and everything like that underneath that there's your important safety information and that warranty and under that there's actually a red branded power brick and USB type-c cable it says on the brick it's five volts three amps so we'll cross our fingers for some type of quick charging happening here but that's that so we're off the bat this is like my second impression and yeah the phone is still big it's still so huge you can probably tell even in my hands it looks like a massive device it still has those pins on the back which is interesting the ridges the huge grips up and down the bezels a lot of cutouts for front facing sensors actually and it's just overall a unique looking phone it doesn't even have it doesn't have the normal sleek and modern look of all the other glass sandwich flagships we've gotten lately it just looks kind of like another red camera like a tool or or a device you to use for a function and that's it we'll go ahead and get a booted for the first time with this power button slash fingerprint reader on the side and this loading animation this one right here is the first time I'm seeing this holographic effect right off the bat and it definitely does not pick up on camera it just looks slanted but then after it sets up it just runs sets up like a normal Android phone I've registered my fingerprint sign-in with Google and everything so now I'm really gonna just start digging into this thing and seeing what it's all about this is day one for me and you already know I'm gonna be sharing my thoughts on it as we go and you better believe I'm also gonna be tweeting sample photos from that camera that's the main thing I'm into so be sure to be following there if you're not already and we got to start digging through this thing and seeing what it's all about there is of course a lot of concern over how delayed this thing is naturally because it has last year's specs from when it got announced so for those who forgot snapdragon 835 six gigs of ram but also a 4000 milliamp hour battery and expandable storage I think a lot of people who pre-ordered this phone though aren't buying it to use as their primary phone at least I don't think like I think it's got to be a lot of people like me who want this to be an absolutely baller camera experience first and then also have a great software experience kind of like a phone you know but there is a lot happening here there's a separate marketplace for apps and games that support the holographic for view content in addition to the Play Store there is of course this red launcher which you can disable and use the normal Android launcher but that's definitely worth exploring also there's also this really interesting camera app with a lot of controls at your fingertips and I told they're still working on the app on the controls you have the image processing the color science all of that but they're gonna use our experience with these prototypes to keep improving it as we go the holographic display itself it doesn't show up basically at all on camera I just kind of looks like normal content that's pixelated because of how the tech works but in person on this near final version it's really trippy and it definitely it's gonna be a challenge to shoot stuff and actually take advantage of the holographic nature of it to make it look good there's some demo reels and some things where stuff pops out at the camera and some of it looks good but that's gonna be a challenge and there's even little things I'm seeing like one of these little cutouts up front is a multicolored notification LED and this exact model here I'm holding is serial number triple zero eight of the three hundred prototypes are gonna be making so that's pretty cool and I've also noticed it seems like it's really easy for dust and stuff to get caught in these little grooves on the back of the phone we'll see if that holds up and the dual cameras and the flash module on the back look exactly like a face and there's much much more but definitely let me know what you think about the whole hydrogen-1 concept one year later basically there's still a lot we don't know there's still the exposed pins on the back we don't know what the modules look like but just the whole idea of like this huge phone that's I guess a camera first and then a phone second and the rest of the things that connect to it and let me know if you want to see in a full review for when that comes out either way thanks for watching catch you the next one pace