device firmware - What is yakju, gn, yakjuxw, takju etc?

I'm in the market of buying a Nexus 7, and these are what I understand some kind of firmware/maker identification. Can someone please explain all the different names?

Google sadly wasn't much help for me today.

Answer

For Galaxy Nexus these are different builds:

• takju: devices sold through the Play Store in the US. Contains the Google Wallet aplication.


• yakju: devices sold through Google outside the US.


• yakjuxw: devices sold by Samsung.

If you buy yakjuxw I would recommend that you update to yakju with factory images provided by Google.

This way you will get the updates in time.

I wasn't aware that there are similar builds for the Nexus 7.