OnePlus has become the smartphone brand on every tech enthusiast's lips, sporting a cult following around its high spec devices with low price tags. How has a home-grown Chinese start-up, which doesn’t invest in any traditional media advertising, taken the tech world by storm?

People can now use their phones to check emails, manage money and catch Pokémon at the pub. But for many, there's something missing from the modern mobile experience –Snake. HMD is releasing a new Nokia handset for $26 that comes with the iconic mobile game but without web access.

Smartphones are no longer just a means of communicating. They wake us up, get us from A to B and even help us find love. We’ve almost forgotten their original purpose. Text trumps voicecalls and apps trump SMS – it’s a good time to ask – what’s the future of the mobile phone?

After years of speculation, Amazon finally announced the Fire Phone in June 2014, featuring stereoscopic glasses-free 3D. Its biggest talking point was Firefly – a visual and audio 'Shazam' that lets you buy whatever you scan directly from Amazon. But do people really want this?