The meeting at London's City Hall hopes to find better deterrents to stop mobiles being taken.
Phone companies are to meet London's mayor and the Met Police commissioner to discuss how smartphones can be designed to make them harder to steal.
Recent figures show 57,174 phones were stolen in London alone over a 12-month period, an average of 157 per day. The meeting is also set to look at ways to prevent identity fraud whereby criminals use stolen phones to access electronic payment apps, bank accounts and other personal information.Mr Khan said it was currently "far too easy and profitable for criminals to repurpose and sell on stolen phones" and "that must change".
"Key mobile phone players have a huge part to play in crushing this criminal market, and this meeting is a really important step forward."
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