“Every smartphone has a nice feel in the hand when it’s designed — right up until you put a case on it.” I only figured this out recently. The case I’d been using on my Nexus 6, the one with the lanyard hole, bit the dust a while back — cracked, I think — so I had to take it off. Holding the naked Nexus 6, I was honestly a little impressed. “Huh, this thing is actually this thin?” Yeah, the phone feels great as-is. The mistake was putting a case on it in the first place. So I wanted to go caseless, but going completely bare felt like leaving something on the table. That’s when I remembered back skins exist. Word on the internet is that the bamboo backs on the Moto X and Moto X Pro are just skins. No idea if that’s true. All I know is you can buy wood-grain and even bamboo-grain skins for the Nexus 6 — which, in China, is the Moto X Pro.