{"id":9877,"date":"2019-10-25T16:22:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-25T05:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=9877"},"modified":"2019-10-25T16:22:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-25T05:22:01","slug":"red-is-shutting-down-their-mobile-phone-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/red-is-shutting-down-their-mobile-phone-division\/","title":{"rendered":"RED is shutting down their mobile phone division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.reckoner.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/27124104\/akrales_181025_3026_0102.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RED\u2019s ambitious Hydrogen phone project is ending after the release of just a single device&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Announced by RED founder Jim Jannard in a short, but sweet retirement announcement the company famous for its high-end film equipment will close the chapter that was its ill-fated mobile phone division.<\/p>\n<p>Touted to have a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/turns-out-reds-holographic-phone-isnt-dead\/\">holographic display<\/a>&#8221; and built with a connector to allow the phone to use a myriad of lenses and accessories that never came to fruition, the first and only phone released was <a href=\"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/reds-hydrogen-one-smartphone-sucks\/\">rather poorly received<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Owners of existing Hydrogen One phones will be supported into the near future but are likely to have support tail off in coming years.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2019\/10\/24\/20931506\/red-hydrogen-one-phone-project-canceled-founder-jim-jannard-retires\">RED cancels Hydrogen phone project as founder Jim Jannard retires &#8211; The Verge<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RED\u2019s ambitious Hydrogen phone project is ending after the release of just a single device&#8230;\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[284,482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9877"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9877"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9879,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9877\/revisions\/9879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}