Google Will Reportedly Let 15 Superfans Test Unreleased Pixel Phones

There are but 3 certainties successful life: death, taxes, and Google’s adjacent Pixel telephone getting thoroughly leaked earlier nan institution tin moreover denote it. (Multiple generations of Pixel have been publically unboxed, disassembled, and moreover reviewed earlier Google tin show them off.)

But it seems Google doesn’t want leakers to person each nan nosy — it plans to fto 15 fortunate fans effort caller Pixel phones while they’re still successful development, reports Bloomberg.

While Google hasn’t officially confirmed this yet, Bloomberg says it’s reviewed charismatic rules for a title called “The Trusted Tester program,” wherever 15 winners tin “help style a Pixel telephone presently successful development.” They’ll person to motion an NDA and work together to usage nan phones while they’re successful typical protective cases designed to disguise them while they’re retired successful nan wild, Bloomberg notes.

It’s not different for companies to fto their ain labor trial unreleased hardware out successful nan chaotic utilizing protective disguises, aliases for companies to bring fans into their offices for attraction tests, but to fto fans return a Pixel-class telephone retired successful nan wild? Unheard of.

Could fans really spoil a Pixel astonishment immoderate much than leakers do anyway? The consequence seems low. In caller years, Google has begun preemptively revealing its ain phones successful a “if you can’t hit ‘em, subordinate ‘em” strategy. It wouldn’t moreover astonishment maine if 1 of nan winners winds up getting support from Google to stock their early thoughts pinch nan world.

It’s not yet clear erstwhile fans mightiness participate for a chance to effort nan phone, which telephone it mightiness be, aliases erstwhile that telephone mightiness scope their hands, but Bloomberg writes it’s for “Pixel Superfans” — truthful it’s a safe stake you’d request to beryllium part of that existing charismatic instrumentality group to moreover person a chance.

Google didn’t instantly respond to a petition for comment.