Project Fi isn’t your average mobile phone carrier.

That much was clear from the second I signed up for the service last fall. And now, after having personally used Fi for the better part of a year, I’m finding new ways it can make my life easier.

Project Fi, if you aren’t familiar, is Google’s experimental wireless service for its own Nexus devices. It seamlessly switches your phone between a handful of networks — Sprint, T-Mobile, and as of recently, U.S. Cellular — to get you the best possible signal at any given time. It also taps into reliable public Wi-Fi networks (with its own layer of encryption in place) and uses those for your calls and data whenever it can.

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