After getting the Nexus 6 last year, some things satisfied me and some didn’t, so when the Nexus 6P launched this year I kept hesitating about whether to upgrade. The things I wasn’t happy with: The screen was too yellow. It’s an AMOLED panel, and supposedly not even a good Samsung one, which is why it took me forever to adjust after switching from a Sony Xperia Z1. Battery life was a bit of a mess. With the Moto 360 sipping power over Bluetooth, I barely got through a day, and sometimes had to top up around noon. No LED notification light. The Nexus 6 actually has one, but Android disables it by default, and even if you turn it on you apparently need a paid app to make it work. Ridiculous. The biggest thing making me hesitate was this: the Nexus 6P does fix those complaints, but not in a way that leaves you feeling reassured.

I have a bad habit: I charge everything at night, take it out the next day, and only plug it in again when I get home the following evening. Day after day, over and over. Thanks to this stupid habit, my battery-life requirement when buying anything is “lasts a day.” The Nexus 6 has a decent-sized battery, but its endurance isn’t great — probably the price of that 2K screen. It used to be that the Nexus 6 lasted exactly one day for me, including the evening run on the way home. But lately, the Moto 360 and a string of Android Wear updates have been eating into my phone battery more and more. Staring at the Bluetooth power draw in Batterystatus, I felt a bit helpless. At that point you’d get home with 20% left, barely enough for the run afterward. Which meant I had to find something to charge the phone with at work — and for someone with a “one charge a day” compulsion, that’s a real itch. So I wondered: does everyone else just leave their phone plugged in whenever there’s a charger around? I asked on G+ and found that most people do. Since the Nexus 6 has always been on wireless charging at home, with a Lumia Qi pad, I figured I’d just get another wireless charging pad.

I bought the Nexus 6 the same way I bought the Nexus 9 last time — same channel, arrived at almost the same time too. There’s already plenty of info about this phone online, but I’ll still keep it brief.