The Pixel 6 Pro’s glossy back and Google Tensor specifications have been confirmed in a leaked hands-on video

The Pixel 6 series is set to come soon, and thanks to leaks and Google itself, we already know almost everything there is to know about it. We’ve seen leaked renders, official renders, live images in precisely produced professional advertising, and photos of the Pixel 6 behind glass, but we’ve yet to see candid shots of the phone. We now have our first real-world, unglamorous look at the impending smartphone, thanks to a brief hands-on video of the Pixel 6 Pro.

M. Brandon Lee of ThisIsTechToday was the first to release real-world photographs of the Pixel 6 Pro online today. The lack of a Google branding on the back indicates that the gadget is a prototype, but the hardware seen should match the final design, as it appears to be from a Product Validation Test (PVT) batch.
The hole-punch camera on the front, a bar on the rear with three cameras, and the Pixel 6 Pro’s curved front and back can all be seen. When light reaches the back of the phone, it gleams brightly, indicating that the finish will be quite polished.

Apart from confirming the lustrous back, this leak also confirms the Google Tensor chip’s characteristics, which we previously mentioned. The Google Tensor CPU has two Cortex-X1 cores, Arm’s most powerful Cortex CPU to date, according to a photograph of the phone taken with the CPU-Z app. The Qualcomm Snapdragon 888 and the Samsung Exynos 2100, on the other hand, both have just one Cortex-X1 core.

Assuming that the result hasn’t been tampered with, CPU-Z found the same core configurations and frequencies as the Google Tensor processor.
2x ARM Cortex-X1 clocked at 2.802GHz
2x ARM Cortex-A76 clocked at 2.253GHz
4x ARM Cortex-A55 clocked at 1.80GHz