The line between smartphones and tablets is officially gone.

It’s been blurring for a while now, but with the size of phone screens pushing up to 6 in. and tablet displays dipping as low as 7 in., I think it’s safe to say that the way we categorize a device has become more or less arbitrary. They’re all Internet-connected, and they can all even make phone calls; the only real difference is that some of them need the Internet connection to make and receive calls, while others do not.

That certainly seems to be the mindset behind Google’s new supersized Nexus 6. The Motorola-made Nexus 6 — on sale now from Google for $649 (32GB) or $699 (64GB) and coming soon to all major U.S. carriers starting at $199 on contract — is basically a small tablet that you carry around and occasionally use to make and receive calls. Along with the Nexus 9 tablet, it’s one of Google’s two flagship devices for the new Android 5.0 Lollipop platform.

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