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Apr 15, 2022G2-015Moving target

Blass: leaked Pixel Watch tutorial shows Wear OS 3.1

Evan Blass leaked material identifying Pixel Rohan as running Wear OS 3.1.

Evan Blass leaked material from an interactive tutorial identifying Pixel Rohan, Google's Pixel Watch codename, as running Wear OS 3.1.

How to read this record

  1. What was reportedEvan Blass leaked material identifying Pixel Rohan as running Wear OS 3.1.
  2. Who said it, and whenEvan Blass reported it on Apr 15, 2022 in 9to5Google.
  3. What happened, and whenGoogle Pixel Watch was announced on Oct 6, 2022, 174 days after this report.
  4. The verdict, and whyMoving targetThis was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it.Why: The leaked interactive-tutorial image is evidence that the real pre-release Pixel Rohan software identified itself as Wear OS 3.1; Google's retail specification lists Wear OS 3.5. The pre-release software revision existed and changed before shipment. What the company published
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Reported by
Evan Blass
We read it in
9to5Google
Product
Google Pixel Watch · reported as “Pixel Watch”
Read it at 9to5Google

The story of this report

  1. Apr 15, 2022Evan Blass reported it · 9to5Google
  2. Oct 6, 2022Google Pixel Watch was announced
  3. VerdictMoving targetWhat it means, and why, is in the box above.

Who reported it

Evan Blass · Leaker

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Questions about this report

Did this Google Pixel Watch report turn out to be true?
Moving target. This was right about the plan at the time. The company then changed it. The leaked interactive-tutorial image is evidence that the real pre-release Pixel Rohan software identified itself as Wear OS 3.1; Google's retail specification lists Wear OS 3.5. The pre-release software revision existed and changed before shipment.
Who reported it first?
Evan Blass reported it on Apr 15, 2022 in 9to5Google.
How far ahead of the announcement was it?
That was 174 days before Google Pixel Watch was announced on Oct 6, 2022.