I was confused by that too, seems they switched the definition of front and rear. The new "way" is used consistently also on the Nexus 9 and Nexus 5 tabs.

This is the real new selfie phone ;-)

Must be a typo (also in the German Translation)

It's a typo. If you click the blue <> button next to the specs you get more details, including the corrected version of this.

I caught this too. Must be a typo-switcheroo

hopefully that is a typo (it was, it's been fixed already)