A Pixel Watch randomly attempted to pair with someones phone at a mall

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  • Google has started to send the Pixel Watch to retail stores.
  • One mallgoer in Australia received a random Fast Pair notification to set up a Pixel Watch.
  • The notification moreover confirmed that a device app is needed for setup.

We’re only a week yonder from Google’s predictable hardware event where the visitor will officially show off the Pixel 7 series and its Pixel Watch. Ahead of the event, however, a Pixel Watch was found at a Target distribution part-way last weekend. Now it seems flipside Pixel Watch was discovered in the wild thanks to a Fast Pair notification.

An Australian Redditor, Andad87, who was looking through Instagram while at a shopping mall received a Fast Pair notification without walking by an electronics retail store. It turns out what prompted the notification was an zippy Pixel Watch requesting to be set up. The notification showed a picture of a Pixel Watch with an Obsidian band.