With Gen Yers spending a third of their waking lives on devices, a fair amount of time is wasted flicking between apps and services. Wouldn’t it be simpler if there was a way to connect all your apps? Enter Flow, a service from Microsoft that's designed to do just that.

The time people spend on smartphone apps is continuing to grow, with Americans devoting almost 70 hours on them in June 2015 alone. But with people’s attention concentrated on just three of the top App Store apps for 80% of this time, is marketing in the others worth it?

We increasingly rely on smartphones to supplement our knowledge and store our memories. But with 31% of people running out of space monthly, these digital brains are getting full. By merging device storage with the cloud, can the Nextbit Robin put an end to ‘post deletion stress disorder’?

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?