The Pixel Watch had an iPhone 4 over the weekend. Just like Apple’s 2010 flagship leaked after being left in a bar, Google’s upcoming Pixel Watch has apparently been lost and found in a restaurant. Android Central was the first to get photos of the leaked device, and the person who found the watch did a Reddit AMA as user “Tagtech414″and shared more photos. Unfortunately, the device does not actually work. No one knows how to charge it, and it can still be erased remotely. Keep in mind that these are pictures of a prototype, not the final model, and this watch was lost and found for “several weeks”before it hit the internet.
However, we have a good view of the hardware. The Google smart watch is a small, plump glass circle. The top glass cover is the widest part of the watch circle and looks like the top “half”of the watch. In fact, it is only about one third of the depth of the watch, making the watch appear thinner than it actually is.
The silver middle section also contains a rotating digital crown and one additional button on the right side, while there is what looks like a speaker and microphone on the left side.
At the bottom of the watch is a heart rate monitor (four slots for sensors in the middle) and an ECG sensor (two large silver halves). There is also placeholder text “lorem ipsum”around the perimeter of the clock.
Although the watch no longer turns on, we were able to take a look at the front of the device thanks to the smart operation of the flashlight. Tagtech414 says “the bezels are pretty substantial”.
This leak gives us a great look at the physical design of the Pixel Watch, but it doesn’t answer many of the burning questions we have about Google’s first watch. We still don’t know what SoC it uses, and we don’t know how good Google’s approach to Wear OS 3 is (without Samsung’s heavy influence on the Galaxy Watch 4). Hopefully we’ll learn more about watches at Google I/O next month.