With stories popping up about the Pixel 9 Pro experiencing build quality issues, it’s easy to lose faith in Google’s engineering. However, here’s a story that might restore your faith. After half a year in the snow, a Pixel 6a was retrieved by its owner.
The owner is one Andrew Prag. Last year, he went on a skiing trip in Serre Chevalier, France. As fate would have it, Prag would lose his phone, a Pixel 6a, while on the trip. The story would have ended there if he had been able to retrieve the phone the next day as he planned. However, a rough snowstorm rolled in and prevented that from happening. He and his family had to call it a lost cause and leave the phone.
A Pixel 6a spent half a year buried in the snow
This happened back in February 2024; the Pixel 6a was about a year and a half old at that point. Fast forward to six months later. Prag was back in the area of Serre Chevalier again. Still missing his phone, he decided to go back to the area where he lost his phone. At that point, the weather was much warmer, and the snow had melted.
We don’t know how long he poked around in the grass, but he was miraculously able to find his phone lying on the ground. His phone was guarded by a case, and that case was in rough shape. It wasn’t only covered in snow, but it was also smothered in mud. Also, we see that the glass over the camera was cracked.
Anyone would assume that the phone had given up the ghost. However, Prag went out and searched in a field for a phone he lost six months prior; obviously, he assumed that miracles were not in short supply that day. And you know what, he was able to eke out another miracle. When plugging his phone into the wall, it immediately turned on.
His Pixel 6a survived half a year in the snow to everyone’s surprise. Not only did it survive, but it continued to function just like nothing happened. What makes this significant is the fact that the Pixel 6a is the less premium version of the Pixel 6. So, it’s pretty wild that it was able to keep kicking. We can’t deny that things might have been different had it not been for the case.
