{"id":1003768,"date":"2026-04-18T12:25:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T06:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003768"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:59:10","slug":"indias-smartphone-shipments-drop-3-in-january-march-mark-weakest-quarter-in-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/18\/indias-smartphone-shipments-drop-3-in-january-march-mark-weakest-quarter-in-six-years\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s smartphone shipments drop 3% in January-March, mark weakest quarter in six years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supply-side cost pressures and weak demand took a toll on India&#8217;s smartphone shipments, which fell 3 per cent year-on-year in Q1 2026, suffering its weakest quarter in the last six years, according to Counterpoint Research&#8217;s Monthly India Smartphone Tracker. <\/p>\n<p>On the outlook, Research Director Tarun Pathak said India&#8217;s smartphone market is expected to remain under pressure in the near term, with Q2 2026 likely to see a double-digit decline, as elevated memory prices and weak entry-level demand continue to weigh on overall volumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supply-side cost pressures and weak demand took a toll on India&#8217;s smartphone shipments, which fell 3 per cent year-on-year in Q1 2026, suffering its weakest quarter in the last six years, according to Counterpoint Research&#8217;s Monthly India Smartphone Tracker. On the outlook, Research Director Tarun Pathak said India&#8217;s smartphone market is expected to remain under pressure in the near term, with Q2 2026 likely to see a double-digit decline, as elevated memory prices and weak entry-level demand continue to weigh on overall volumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,85,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-telegraph","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}