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here it is red has spent the last year hi bans the hydrogen one smartphone with a holographic display it looks like no other phone on the market it comes from one of the most esteemed names and digital cameras and as a screen unlike any other phone selling today it is unique it is expensive and it is a complete mess so I've been pretty excited for this phone Rhett announced it more than a year ago and it's been talking about this holographic display since then but the phone kept getting delayed and pushed back and pretty much no one's been able to see it they've shown it to a handful of people but no one's been able to film the screen and so we've kind of just had to work off of what people were describing it as and so I've been here imagining that a hug Africa screen is gonna kind of float above the display and have this very cool you know hologram but that's not what this is at all Todd what this is very nauseating my question is why maybe ah this is kind of hurting my eyes I can't imagine like using this every day where my eyes are tearing watching this there's really no elegant way to say this the screen is just bad like really bad but unfortunately it doesn't show up on video very well so I'm gonna do my best to describe it to you we also made this graphic to try and help you know those lunch boxes or postcards with a lenticular screen that kind of changes as you rotate it side to side that's basically what this is if you've ever seen a Nintendo 3s it's pretty much the same thing I actually think that 3s is better than this most of the time you're using the phone nothing is quote-unquote holographic everything is flat 2d just normal when you're on the main interface browsing the web using a regular apps or whatever red has a separate app store that includes a very small number of games and movies that work in this holographic format for whatever reason red calls it for V or for view instead of 3d nothing ever pops out at you when you're seeing a four view image or game but when you're in those apps you can see a little bit of depth into the screen but the depth you see isn't that convincing I wasn't even sure I was seeing it half the time and it works really unevenly most things are really bad and look kind of like flat gimmicky cutouts others especially video where the depth is much more natural actually have some potential but the key thing to know is that it just looks bad when the holographic mode comes on the screen looks really blurry like the whole thing is smudged up and nothing is sharp and clear I think that's because there's an actual hardware layer in here that's changing how many of the pixels you can see I played a few games this way and I didn't feel like it added much the experience I think the 4b may the game's worse - just look at how poorly the subway surfers ripoff starring Paddington works it gets choppy all the time the other big deal here is the cameras there are dual 12 megapixel sensors on the back and dual eight megapixel sensors on the front and both sides can be used for capturing four V photos and videos before I get into that I want to say that as regular 2d cameras they're actually pretty good in a lot of cases now you're not exactly getting red color science here red says there's just not the horsepower and you're not using a red sensor either I think it's probably the same Samsung or Sony stuff that everyone else is using the colors look rich and natural though there's style without them being stylized but it can't match the pixel when it comes to dynamic range I often feel that the hydrogen one would blow out highlights of the pixel could clearly capture it also struggles in low-light and the photos often weren't very sharp the real highlight here is supposed to be 4d mode where you can capture 3d photos and videos the photos are pretty skippable they don't capture a lot of depth and eventually I started making everyone pose in these cheesy ways once I realized that made it look the best I was surprised though the video is there's something to it I can actually see the depth of it it's a much subtler effect and it's kind of cool it's still a pain to watch it's smudgy and the effect tends to flip her in and out with a lot of our effects some people said it made them dizzy but what it works you can kind of understand what Redd was thinking unfortunately you can't really share it with anybody even if you do get really into shooting for B they won't be able to see it unless they have another red phone it just looks like 2d to the rest of the world red does include an app called hollow pix which is sort of their own social network it's supposed to be like Instagram for red phone owners who shoot for feed but I haven't ice to be able to test it every time I try to log into the app it just crashes when I press the sign-in button the funny thing is red isn't even the first company to try this if you remember back in 2011 HDC actually did this with the evo 3d it did the same thing there was a dual camera on the back for capturing 3d photos and it had the same kind of screen where you could tilt it and view it in 3d now in fairness to red it does look better on the hydrogen one it's a little bit clearer and the photos in videos do turn out better but the tech clearly has not developed a lot in the time since and it kind of says a lot that but hasn't meaningfully improve the experience since 2011 so now I want to talk about the rest of the phone because there is a lot of phone here I actually dropped it and injured somebody with it but props through it for at least trying something different here I don't really like the design but there's a lot going on it looks unlike anything else they're a bunch of textures on the back there are these grips for your fingers on the side that don't strictly make it easier to hold but are interesting I also like there's a shutter button on the top and fortunately it's less interesting on the inside that's because they're supposed to come out last year so it's running on a snapdragon 835 whereas the rest of the students flagship phones all of a snapdragon 845 there's one other big feature on this phone that's supposed to make it unique and that's these accessory pins on the back it's supposed to let you connect all kinds of interesting things the biggest being a full-on red camera sensor which will be able to attach real lenses to but that doesn't exist yet there's nothing you can add onto the phone today and given that the phone was already a year delayed who knows when these accessories will actually ship it hasn't even offered any details on the sensors capabilities let alone its price and so ultimately all the big things that read set out to do here all the ways we wanted to stand out they just don't hold up and since it's not particularly great at the basics and cost an incredible $1,300 it's just impossible to recommend I really wish it didn't go this way I think it's great that someone is trying something different when it comes to mobile phones and the concept of a red camera in your pocket that's really exciting but it's not all we got right now this tech just isn't ready and you probably shouldn't pay $1,300 to beta test it you itself we're filming on an Evo 3d right now because we can actually export 3d from the red phone if you liked this video you're sure to LIKE and subscribe please let me know in the comments what you actually wanted to see from this phone