The Nexus 6P is a Google-manufactured Android smartphone powered by a Broadcom BCM4358 Wi-Fi chipset, which was among the first consumer mobile devices to support CSI extraction through the nexmon firmware patching framework. Its significance to the Wi-Fi sensing field lies in enabling researchers to obtain fine-grained channel state information from a compact, portable, and widely available commercial device rather than relying on dedicated hardware such as Intel 5300 NICs or specialized access points. The Nexus 6P supports 802.11ac with up to 3×3 MIMO and 80 MHz bandwidth, making it a capable and accessible platform for mobile and device-free sensing experiments, and it served as a key reference device in early nexmon CSI tool demonstrations alongside other Broadcom-equipped platforms such as the Raspberry Pi and MacBook.
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