“I bought a prototype Pixel 7 Pro” – photos and details from a random owner

Google is known for its enormous “losses” prototypes of future gadgets: the story of

forgotten in a restaurant Pixel Watch, like on stagenew heroes have emerged - early prototypes of the Pixel 7 line. A person contacted Reddit who bought a Pixel 7 Pro on the Facebook trading platform (an organization banned in the Russian Federation), where it was sold under the name Pixel 6 Pro. He claims that he used the device for three weeks, until at one point the smartphone began to behave strangely.

According to the owner, yesterday morning the screen of the devicebegan to flicker, after which an inscription appeared about resetting to factory settings and deleting all data. Now, when the smartphone is turned on, the Fastboot mode starts, which the owner demonstrates with several photos. For the past three weeks, the Pixel 7 Pro has worked flawlessly. Apparently, having discovered the loss, Google remotely deactivated the smartphone, at the same time erasing all the data on it.

The owner claims that the device workedmanaged by Tiramisu” is the code name of Android 13. Judging by the pictures, the device is equipped with 12 GB of LPDRR5 RAM and 256 GB of storage, and the “Device Info” The name Cubot Cheetah 2 was chosen by Google engineers for conspiracy purposes.

Answering questions, the owner said that the simpleThe clear case from the Pixel 6 Pro was perfect for the Pixel 7, as was the screen protector, “because it is a screen almost the same size”. The latter, by the way, confirms the recent rumor about the use of the same display panels in the Pixel 7 and 7 Pro that their predecessors had. Let's hope that this story will develop in the near future. Well, two days earlier, live photos of the base Pixel 7 surfaced on the Internet.

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