The iPhone may once have been the must-have phone around the world, but people in China are falling out of love with Apple. They're opting for innovative home-grown brands that satisfy their desire to keep up-to-date, while protecting their culture from foreign influence.

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?

Xiaomi has been dubbed ‘the Chinese iPhone’, but flagging sales in its homeland mean it’s looking to expand into the Indian smartphone market. It has already been adopted enthusiastically across the country, and the company will now start manufacturing phones there, too.

The used goods market in India is expected to grow to $18.4 billion in 2015. Who’s driving it? Savvy young married couples in urban areas – they’re buying anything from books to cars online. But it’s also this group that are selling. How is a desire to de-clutter fuelling India’s second-hand market?