RED Hydrogen One review: The Hollywood camera-maker's glasses-free holographic 4-view phone.
A Hollywood cinema brand makes a phone.
RED Hydrogen One was the Hollywood camera-maker's wild bet — a "4-View" lightfield display for glasses-free 3D, dual front and rear cameras for 3D capture, and Cinema-grade accessory mounts. The promised modular video Mods never shipped, and the phone became one of the era's most expensive flops.
01Display
64/10064/100 is one of the weaker display results among flagship phones of 2018 — 14 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
02Camera
56/10056/100 is one of the weaker camera results among flagship phones of 2018 — 16 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
03Performance
70/10070/100 is one of the weaker performance results among flagship phones of 2018 — 10 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
04Battery
76/10076/100 trails the 81-point cohort average for flagship phones of 2018.
05Build
80/10080/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2018.
06Value
40/10040/100 — right at the average for flagship phones of 2018.
- Glasses-free "holographic" 4-View display.
- Dual rear + dual front cams for 3D.
- Machined metal industrial design.
- Cinema-grade pogo-pin accessory mounts.
- $1,295 price tag.
- 4-View display lacked content.
- Mod ecosystem never arrived.
- Heavy 263 g.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 2-phone cohort of flagship devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .