This week ended with the news that Apple’s annual iPhone jamboree is set for 9 September. Its iPhone 6 and 6 Plus is likely to get an S added, with rumours abound that its batteries, Siri, touchscreens and cameras could be set for a revamp. It will be 2016 before we’ll see the iPhone 7.

More than a fifth of European households will use wireless charging by 2020 as a way to power Internet of Things products such as wearables and beacons, new research has found.

Google’s modular smartphone has been delayed until 2016, the team behind the project bluntly announced on social media this week.

Smartphone sales experienced the slowest growth rate since 2013 in the three months to June, with Android devices seeing their lowest take-up ever.

Google has furthered its march into consumers’ homes after launching its own router, which it claims offers better performance and is easier to manage than traditional devices.

Google has released the final software development kit (SDK) for Android 6.0, revealing that the next version of its operating system will be labelled “Marshmallow”.

Google is set to make a fresh effort to get Android One up and running in India after a lacklustre first attempt, it was revealed this week.

Samsung’s mobile payments system will launch on 20 August, the company revealed, as it introduced its latest flagship smartphones and teased a new smartwatch.

This week saw the spectre of Apple becoming an operator raised and then dashed within days.

Qualcomm Technologies has developed a way to wirelessly charge metal encased smartphones and tablets.

Nokia has continued its return to the hardware market by revealing OZO, a product it is dubbing as the first commercially available virtual reality camera.

If you thought Will.i.am made an unlikely advocate of the technology industry, news that David Beckham is backing a new video streaming platform will come as even more of a shock.

BlackBerry has continued its move away from traditional smartphones with the acquisition of crisis communications specialist AtHoc.

The SIM as we know it could be a thing of the past, if Apple and Samsung have anything to do with it. The Financial Times reported this week how an e-SIM is on the horizon, allowing consumers to switch provider almost instantly, and stop those troublesome hunts for a paperclip when you want to change your SIM card.

It was with a liberal pinch of salt that many took Amazon’s idea to deliver packages via drones when it first came to light in 2013, with many questioning the feasibility of something so science fictional.

Traffic from mobile and online messaging services will top approximately 438 billion per day before the end of the decade, new forecasts have claimed.

Connected animals and an “emotion-feeling” robot were some of the more unusual topics to catch the eye of the Mobile Europe team this week.

Orange has brought Wi-Fi calling functionality to its Libon app in the UK.

More than 300 companies are producing LTE devices, with over a third now supporting carrier aggregation, new figures have shown.

It's fair to say that Microsoft's acquisition of Nokia's handset business has not reinvented the smartphone game, but developments this week show it still manages to dominate the headlines.