As we get closer to the launch of Android L, the next major version of mobile software from Google, it’s reasonable to wonder about the next Nexus phone. Likely called the Nexus 6, it’s looking more like Motorola will build the handset as benchmarks for a phone called “Shamu” appeared online this week.

[company]Google[/company] has internally used names of fish for the Nexus line, so Shamu sounds feasible. The Nexus 5, for example, was called Hammerhead while the Nexus 4 was dubbed Mako and the prior model was called Maguro, a type of tuna.

What can you expect from the Nexus 6? According to the reported benchmarks, look for a 5.2-inch, 2560 x 1440 display, 2.65 GHz [company]Qualcomm[/company] Snapdragon 805 chip with Adreno 420 GPU, 3 GB of memory, 12 megapixel rear camera, and a 2 megapixel front camera.

I‘m not quite sold on the idea of a Snapdragon…