We’ve been taking part in peek-a-boo with Google’s teased/leaked/rumored Pixel smartwatch for hundreds of years now, however the existence of precise {hardware} makes all of it really feel somewhat extra actual.
Unfortunately for somebody who’s in all probability been working exhausting on Google’s bid to dethrone the Apple Watch (or at the least make a extra compelling Android wearable), they left the round smartwatch prototype in a restaurant. Oops.
There’s a coronary heart fee monitor, buttons and proprietary watchband latches (boo) and, nicely, not a lot else so as to add for now. The watch wouldn’t run past its boot-up display, so for now we’ll need to dream how WearOS 3 will look. Such heady desires!
It isn’t the largest mishap in misplaced prototype property. Over ten years in the past, Apple engineer Gray Powell left a prototype iPhone 4 in a bar, and Gizmodo obtained the leap on precisely what Apple had deliberate for arguably the iPhone that set the tempo for smartphones on the time. That all resulted in litigation.
Will this Pixel Watch leak finish equally? I’m unsure, however Google may do with the publicity with regards to its wearables.
— Mat Smith
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