N6: The Motorola page does indeed show Qi charging. The massive battery is attractive for me as well, plus the turbo charge thing is clearly targeted at the airport traveler where you've got very limited time between flights and you're trying to top up your battery right now Of course, this means that we have yet another incompatible USB charging dingus. Although, for all we know, Motorola has secretly implemented USB Power Delivery 2.0, which is part of the sea change to accompany the new type C connector, which isn't yet officially here. We can dream, can't we?

N Player: They don't show the back of the thing, but they do show two separate cables. Presumably, that's power and HDMI (network via WiFi), although it would be cool if it could run off USB power like the Chromecast. What this clearly isn't, however, is a replacement for the Sony GTV / Blueray single-box solution. That's sad.

N9: The big thing, from my perspective, is that it's heavier than the Nexus 7 tablet, which is already something I'm looking to remove from my travel bag. (Too much damn weight.) I'll probably end up going N6 for myself (to replace N5 and N7) and hand my current N7 to my daughter, who will be perfectly thrilled with it. One notable thing about the N9, however, is that it's possibly the first product to ship with a 64-bit ARM core. That's a big deal for a variety of reasons, not least that it represents the clash of the titans with Intel. Now you've got an ARM chip that can reasonably run a 64-bit kernel and do all the things you'd expect from a server-class machine. Irrelevant for a tablet, but a very big deal in servers.

Android 5 / Lollipop: From most users' perspectives, it's a very incremental release over Android 4.4. They've done a ton of under-the-hood work to make the system more efficient on older hardware, and they're blurring the line between web pages and apps (convergence being a buzz word, I guess), but the seriously new stuff is Android Auto and Android Wear, which work just fine with older phones.

Sony Z3: they degrade the camera performance when you unlock the phone. Because DRM. Or something. No thanks.

N6 vs. OnePlus: Now this is an interesting discussion to have. The OnePlus is occupying the niche formerly occupied by the earlier Nexus devices -- damn good hardware for half the price of the very best hardware. Is the N6 worth roughly 2x the price of a OnePlus? Good question. Also, on price, can somebody explain to me why the tablets are so much cheaper than the phones when they have essentially the same electronics (or, for some tablets, like the N9, they've got *better* electronics), bigger batteries, and bigger screens? You'd think the tablets would cost *more* but they cost less.