Red dead? Hydrogen Two dropped as organization originator reports retirement

No reclamation for Red's smartphone division

Just months after Red's Hydrogen Two smartphone was affirmed regardless of Hydrogen One's disappointment, the subsequent Android handset has been proclaimed dead in the water, with Red organizer Jim Jannard declaring his retirement and the finish of the Hydrogen venture, as spotted by Ars Technica.

Having quite recently turned 70, Jannard took to the organization's H4Vuser.net gatherings to make the declaration following 45 years taking a shot at Oakley and Red, referring to medical problems and age as the purposes behind his well-earned retirement.

"I will close down the HYDROGEN venture, finishing a profession that has included Oakley, RED Digital Cinema and HYDROGEN," said the organization author, further pronouncing that he's "pleased to have worked with numerous extraordinary individuals throughout the years who have marked on to the vision".

Red future

While Jannard guarantees "HYDROGEN One will keep on being bolstered later on," we wouldn't hold out an excessive amount of trust in that, with Ars Technica taking note of the telephone's last update as being discharged back in January 2019.

Fortunately, Red will stay in its exceptionally effective 'Advanced Cinema' camera business; Jannard alluding to the forthcoming dispatch of the organization's profoundly foreseen Komodo 6K minimal camera that uses Canon's new RF focal point mount, with "Jolted [Land], Tommy [Rios] and [son] Jamin [Jannard] at the controls".

Jannard put a great part of the Hydrogen One's disappointment on an anonymous Chinese ODM (Original Design Manufacturer). Its development, the now-outdated Hydrogen Two, was said to be planned in-house, with plans to make "at another ODM that is obviously progressively equipped for building and supporting the item we (and our clients) request".