Good news if you’re desperate for a matte black slice of cutting-edge Android in your life — the black Nexus 5 with 32GB of storage is back on sale. The bad news is you’ll be waiting up to 5 weeks for it to arrive. The in-demand mobile sold out two days ago, but this morning …

That giant phone you love? Would you feel differently about it if you knew it was supposed to be called a ‘fonblet’? I thought so. This slide from a Samsung presentation to investors claims that its Galaxy Note series of massive mobiles should be referred to as ‘fonblets’, rather than the generally accepted ‘phablet’. Phablet is an utterly awful portmanteau, …

Stocks of Google’s new KitKat-packing 4G superphone are running low all over the place, with Carphone Warehouse the latest outlet to limit Nexus 5 stock to contract-only customers. The Carphone site will still sell you a black Nexus 5 (only with 16GB of storage), but not SIM-free, only on a contract, with a free handset setting you back £25 per …

Like last year’s overwhelmingly brilliant Nexus 4, Google’s Nexus 5 looks set to come in white as well as black — and it’s coming later this week, according to well-connected mobile industry tipster @evleaks. The above pic popped up online yesterday accompanied by the date “11/1”. Presuming there hasn’t been some terrible delay until 11 January, that means 1 November …

The black, 32GB model of Google’s tasty new Nexus 5 phone has sold out. “We are out of inventory. Please check back soon,” the Play Store plaintively bleats, after just six days of intensive hammering from Android fans. The £339 mobile is still available in white, with stock leaving the warehouse by 8 November, while the cheaper £299 16GB model …

Apple has signalled that sapphire is the future of the iPhone, signing a $578m deal to open a plant in Arizona with US company GT Advanced Technologies, an expert in artificially producing the harder-than-rock material. Sapphire is currently used in the Touch ID fingerprint sensor on the new iPhone 5S, a fiddly bit of kit that’s likely to appear in …

An explosion of Nexus 5 leaks has detonated on the Internet, with devices apparently reaching the hands of European bloggers and Android fans — with many rumours pointing to a launch tonight. In an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit, one lucky Nexus user posted several hands-on photos and apparently revealed a cool new feature. According to Reddit user ‘throwawaynexus5guy’ …

Motorola just dropped us a note, inviting your humble CNET correspondents to the launch of a brand-new blower — the Moto G. After the UK sadly missed out on the hugely customisable Moto X, it looks as though a simpler, cheaper, lower-spec version with a similar curved design will be making it across the pond. The launch event is next …

Samsung’s expanding its expansionism by creating a super-sized tablet, according to a rumour out of Taiwan. The Korean company is taking its successful screen-increasing phone strategy and applying it to slates, according to Digitimes, by making a 12.2-inch tablet. The mega-tab will go into production towards the end of the year, sources in the Taiwanese supply chain reckon, with a …

EE is by far the fastest UK network for downloading data, according to new tests carried out across London. The double-vowelled operator achieved on average more than twice the speed of its nearest rival, despite Vodafone and O2 having doubled their speeds by rolling out their own 4G networks. The tests were carried out by RootMetrics, which took off-the-shelf Android …