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Nexus 6 and Nexus 8 mentioned in Chromium code

Spotted by Florian Kiersch the Chromium source code reveals new details regarding the upcoming Nexus 6 and Nexus 8, all though there have been many rumors of the device and the code where it is mentioned doesn’t reveal any specific information regarding it, it does show us that Google is definitely working hard on getting its upcoming flagship devices ready.

Previous rumors about the Nexus 6 claim that there will be 2 versions available, a budget $100 and the flagship version. Both will be manufactured by LG  but the budget $100 version will feature a Mediatek SoC  either the the MT6732 or MT6752 which are Quad core CPU’s. Here is the source code mentioning the Nexus 6

Chromium nexus 6
On line 25 we can see the source code mentioning the Nexus 8 

chromium nexus 8

This is not the first time the devices get mentioned in source codes as previously the Nexus 8 was mentioned in the upcoming Android Kit Kat 4.4.3 changelog