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it's big and chunky it's gonna be kind
of modular in 2019 and it's got a
holographic screen check out the red
hydrogen one this is the first phone
made by red the company more famous for
making some seriously awesome cameras
but we're only curious about one thing
can you fix it when it breaks let's tear
it down and find out how do you get into
a phone this rugged let's try from the
back underneath two plastic covers we
find some Phillips screws success to get
any further we need the help from our
curved razor blade unfortunately the
tight tolerances of the hydrogen one
proved to be too tight for a usual picks
which are less destructive than the
blade lifting up the rear frame we find
that it's connected to the motherboard
by the accessory port connector cable
there's a mid frame preventing us from
getting any further but after removing
the three screws holding it in place it
pops right up we disconnect the battery
and the rest of the cables attached to
the motherboard and after removing a
single screw holding it in place we lift
it up and out with both the rear and
front facing cameras attached the red
hydrogen one features a dual 12.2
megapixel rear camera system and the
front-facing camera system is comprised
of two eight megapixel cameras on the
motherboard we spot a hundred and twenty
eight gigabytes of universal flash
storage and six gigabytes of lpddr4 X
RAM with the snapdragon 835
system-on-chip
layered underneath at the bottom of the
phone we spot another Clifton bracket
held in place by a few screws and once
we have that out the USBC port and
speakers can be freed the battery is
thoroughly glued in place but with the
help of some isopropyl alcohol and
gentle prying we get it out this is a
three point eight five volt 4510
milliamp hour battery which is a whole
lot more impressive than the iPhone 10's
Max's 3000 179 milliamp hour battery
with all those components removed we're
left with the display which is
unfortunately fused to the mid frame
this is a 5.7 inch qHD display with a
resolution of 2560 by 1440 and a pixel
density of 515 pixels per inch obviously
this is no ordinary display since it's
capable of 3d but how does it display
Holograms the hydrogen-1 uses
diffractive light field backlighting
where it splits the h4v photo or video
files into
or pieces and redistributes them into
four def planes sending different images
in different spatial directions so your
left and right I see different images
unfortunately to light up four different
images with one LCD each image uses a
quarter of the pixels resulting in each
image being perceived at about half the
brightness and 1/4 of the pixel density
hence the sub card display so seeing a
video of the display working doesn't
quite give you the same effect as seeing
it in person with the phone fully
disassembled it's time to talk
repairability
the red hydrogen one scored a 4 out of
10 and here's why on the upside many
components including the front and rear
facing cameras USB C port headphone jack
and speaker are modular only standard
Phillips screws are used but the device
relies heavily on adhesive upgrade
attachments that will provide additional
storage battery power or an upgraded
camera are planned but aren't available
at release and on the downside entry to
the phone requires removing glued on
panels with the use of a thin blade
which may cause cosmetic damage and
finally the display is tightly glued to
a large mid frame and will require a
full phone disassembly to replace
increasing repair costs for this common
point of failure
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