Google has shared a narrative of how a person misplaced his Pixel 6a cellphone whereas snowboarding in Serre Chevalier, France. The mid-range cellphone disappeared on the final day of the journey and though the person managed to geolocate it, a snowfall prevented him from discovering it.
Six months later, the person was again in the identical place and determined to strive once more. The snow had melted by then and after some looking, the muddy cell phone was discovered within the grass. Regardless of being buried in snow, mud and rain for half a 12 months, the cellphone nonetheless labored.
“I simply plugged it in and switched it on as if it had been sitting in a drawer all that point,” stated the proprietor.
Google commented on the story by drawing consideration to how cautious the corporate is in testing the sturdiness of its telephones.
“We will’t say Pixel telephones will at all times survive in these excessive situations, however I’m personally not stunned that some have,” Google’s head of the corporate’s Product Integrity Engineering group stated within the weblog submit.
The misplaced cellphone was protected by a case however its nonetheless spectacular.
This text initially appeared on our sister publication M3 and was translated and tailored from Swedish.