{"id":1009726,"date":"2026-05-25T09:15:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009726"},"modified":"2026-05-25T09:26:43","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T03:56:43","slug":"premium-segment-defies-trend-as-rising-memory-costs-push-entry-level-smartphone-prices-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/25\/premium-segment-defies-trend-as-rising-memory-costs-push-entry-level-smartphone-prices-higher\/","title":{"rendered":"Premium segment defies trend as rising memory costs push entry-level smartphone prices higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pointing to a sharp pricing divide triggered by rising memory chip costs, prices of entry-level smartphones in India have risen by as much as 40% over the past year, while several premium flagship devices have become cheaper by up to 20%. <\/p>\n<p>The gap driven by rising artificial intelligence (AI) led global NAND flash and DRAM memory costs point to a pertinent divide in the handset market, where the segment most exposed to component inflation is also the least capable of resisting it, according to a recent report by Techarc, a technology market research and consulting firm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pointing to a sharp pricing divide triggered by rising memory chip costs, prices of entry-level smartphones in India have risen by as much as 40% over the past year, while several premium flagship devices have become cheaper by up to 20%. The gap driven by rising artificial intelligence (AI) led global NAND flash and DRAM memory costs point to a pertinent divide in the handset market, where the segment most exposed to component inflation is also the least capable of resisting it, according to a recent report by Techarc, a technology market research and consulting firm.<\/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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009726","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=1009726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009752,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009726\/revisions\/1009752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}