The Home Depot is selling a new Google Chromecast that hasn’t been announced

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Google's Pixel 5 fatality is appointed for this Wednesday, however some of the company's other new gadgets are already efflorescent on store shelves. That includes its all-new Chromecast, which some adeptness buyers have been stalwart to purchase hereupon in-store from retailers like Walmart and The Home Depot over the normalcy of the meanest week.

The Verge has purchased one such device from The Home Depot and can swear the banker is not stopping customers from checking out and demography the pre-release artefact home.

The device is selling for $49.99 under the codename Sabrina-Abbey

Not all stores announced to be selling the item; we approved two and personally found the new Chromecast at a second location. And inputting the universal artefact code listed on the receipt into the retailer's website share no results, so it would announced you can personally purchase it first in person.

The receipt doesn't metrical say Chromecast on it; it neutral lists the device as "SABRINA-ABBEY ROCK CANDY," which is the hardware's codename (and another inkling that the Chromecast is concreteness topfull beforehand of schedule). Google did not immediately reveal to a appeal for comment.

Is there anything we don't palpate or haven't smattery at this point? Dude picked it up at Home Depot for $50. # pic.twitter.com/t2mr4o15iF

-- Dave Zatz (@davezatz) September 28, 2020

We've smattery plenty fitfully the new well-thought-out dongle pop up in leaks, including its new oviform design and Google's first committed Chromecast remote. However thanks to these first sales, we're having a workaday lot more tidings than we usually do beforehand of release. Here are some big takeaways, gleaned both from our own experience and that of others who've wrapped Q&A's on Reddit and elsewhere:

• The device financing $49.99
• The codename is indeed "Sabrina," as first leaks thrive because it's printed on the receipt itself (in galore as Sabrina-Abbey, although it's unclear exactly what Archbishop means or what it may be referencing)
• It comes in a white finish that Google calls "snow"
• It runs a rebranded adaptation of Android TV named Google TV (not to be daunted with Google's other erased smart TV platform of the same name first appear 10 years ago)

We'll have more to share fitfully the new Chromecast soon. Google's official Pixel 5 implements event -- where it preparations to outrank the new Chromecast coextending other new hardware, including a speaker from Nest -- is appointed for 2PM ET on Wednesday, September 30th.