{"id":1003784,"date":"2026-04-18T12:35:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T07:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003784"},"modified":"2026-04-18T13:34:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T08:04:47","slug":"indias-smartphone-shipments-drop-3-in-jan-mar-mark-weakest-quarter-in-6-yrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/18\/indias-smartphone-shipments-drop-3-in-jan-mar-mark-weakest-quarter-in-6-yrs\/","title":{"rendered":"India\u2019s smartphone shipments drop 3% in Jan-Mar, mark weakest quarter in 6 yrs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Supply-side cost pressures and weak demand took a toll on India\u2019s 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\u2019s Monthly India Smartphone Tracker. <\/p>\n<p>On the outlook, Research Director Tarun Pathak said India\u2019s 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\u2019s 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\u2019s Monthly India Smartphone Tracker. On the outlook, Research Director Tarun Pathak said India\u2019s 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":[4,80,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003784","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=1003784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}