An alleged prototype of Google’s upcoming Pixel 7 smartphone has been posted on eBay, giving us our first stare upon the new phone in the wild months ahead of its scheduled fall release (by potential of Android guru Mishaal Rahman).
Google appropriate kind published the phone a pair of weeks ago at Google I/O, and what we are capable of behold in the prototype matches up with what Google has already confirmed. The distinctive digicam bar is wait on, and this 12 months it’s an aluminum bar with cutouts for the cameras. And the alleged prototype’s casing is a deep shaded that looks appropriate kind care for one of the colors Google confirmed off at I/O.
One of Google’s official Pixel 7 and Pixel 7 Professional footage — including that deep shaded.
Image: Google
The eBay itemizing involves a pair of photos of the entrance, wait on, and sides of the tool, though there’s now not much to acknowledge that you just’d’t already set up on Google’s official renders. A portray of the phone was on presentations it has 128GB of storage, which implies Google will another time be offering a 128GB model as an choice for the final phone. A screenshot says that the phone’s model is GVU6C. And one portray means that this eBay seller may per chance presumably perhaps well also possess gotten their palms on a Pixel 7 Professional as smartly, as you’d utilize the reflection of what appears to be like to be to be the Pixel 7 Professional’s digicam bar on the wait on of the Pixel 7 prototype.
We’ve aloof footage from the eBay itemizing into the gallery under, if you happen to must ascertain them to your self:
In messages with The Verge, the seller claims they offered the Pixel 7 prototype from a wholesaler without lustrous what it was as soon as. The seller says they realized it was as soon as a Pixel 7 after doing learn and seeing footage that gave the influence care for the phone they had. They also remark they had a Pixel 7 Professional, nonetheless offered it already.
The itemizing has been closed, so that you just obtained’t be ready to snap up this tool to your series. There were no bids for the prototype, and the starting repeat was as soon as $450. Google didn’t at present acknowledge to a rely upon for comment.
This Pixel 7 itemizing is suitable kind the most modern vital pre-release leak of a Pixel tool, which has a history of shock appearances dating wait on to the very first phone to preserve the name. A prototype of a Pixel Eye was as soon because it looks chanced on at a cafe shortly ahead of the smartwatch’s announcement at I/O. A mention of the Pixel 6A regarded in a coloring e book all the plan wait on in January. Someone filmed what gave the influence to be a Pixel 6 Professional check unit a pair of weeks ahead of Google officially launched the tool. I may per chance presumably perhaps well also gallop on.
Sadly, we’ll seemingly be ready a pair of months ahead of Google shares more about the Pixel 7. The phones aren’t set up to attain till the fall, and if past years are any indication, we may per chance presumably perhaps well also silent quiz some kind of birth tournament in October. Till then, these photos from eBay will seemingly be our simplest stare upon the upcoming phone… smartly, till it inevitably leaks again.
