Last week we learned that a company known for red, high-quality digital cinema cameras is going to plunge into the Smartphone market with something called Hydrogen One. The company announced the phone with a screaming hot price tag of $1,195 and up, but revealed little else aside from a few things: it will offer 3D (and “4D”) visuals and audio that will “ASSAULT YOUR SENSES,” the phone will be carrier-unlocked and run Android, and it will be modular.

An idea through the application, how red wants the phone to be!
In the phone-centric parts of the patent application, RD is actually not working in a different area than other companies, who make modular phones. The company sees some practical modules that will connect to Hydrogen One, such as a spare battery, speaker, or projector. The difference between these and similar efforts like the Moto Z phones is that, in RED’s version, all these modules are the same shape. You’d essentially be stacking another version of the Hydrogen One’s rectangular shape to the back or front of the phone.

Features
 RED goes on to describe other rectangular add-ons, though, like an entirely separate camera module, which itself has a modular lens system.
 The user would attach this camera module to the back of the Hydrogen One smartphone, therefore covering up its rear camera, but replacing it with one that uses a better image sensor and image processor to capture video at up to (or even over) 8K resolution.
 This camera module could use CMOS, CCD, or even FOVEON sensors, and range from half-inch to full-frame or bigger in size. The user could also put other modules in between the smartphone and the camera module, like a battery, or extra hard drives, for instance. And that’s where things get weird.
 A rear view of the lead image that shows various grips and an electronic viewfinder attached to the modular phone in the center — which itself has been modified with a module that allows different inputs and outputs.

Brief description about the Camera
The company shows a camera grip, which is complete with mechanical control at the back and a shutter button on the front. There is also an electronic viewfinder which can be attached on the left, or can hold a second vertical down. This idea shows hydrogen one by making a shoulder-mounted cinema camera, which basically turns the Smartphone into something that is no different from red bread and butter.

Conclusion
Looking at Red’s wild ambitions for hydrogen forest, this way, it expresses even more questions than the phone’s announcement. Adaptability of a modular system provides enough facility to attract filmmakers in this way amateur or professional, Existing camera setup (red itself)? If the phone starts more than $ 1,000, is there any cheap enough to make any difference? And, perhaps the most important one: Do people want to bury their smartphones in the camera rig for a few hours maybe at a time?