{"id":1019411,"date":"2026-07-08T08:14:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019411"},"modified":"2026-07-08T08:28:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:58:57","slug":"china-smartphone-sales-drop-13-during-618-festival-as-memory-costs-limit-discounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/08\/china-smartphone-sales-drop-13-during-618-festival-as-memory-costs-limit-discounts\/","title":{"rendered":"China smartphone sales drop 13% during 618 festival as memory costs limit discounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: Smartphone sales in China fell 13% year-on-year during the month-long 618 shopping festival, as brands raised prices to offset higher memory costs, according to data from Counterpoint Research. <\/p>\n<p>Sales declined from \u200cMay 26 to \u2060June \u206021, with all major Chinese brands except Huawei posting double-digit drops as fewer promotions compared to last year weighed on demand. Honor sales dropped 33%, while Xiaomi&#8217;s fell 24%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING: Smartphone sales in China fell 13% year-on-year during the month-long 618 shopping festival, as brands raised prices to offset higher memory costs, according to data from Counterpoint Research. Sales declined from \u200cMay 26 to \u2060June \u206021, with all major Chinese brands except Huawei posting double-digit drops as fewer promotions compared to last year weighed on demand. Honor sales dropped 33%, while Xiaomi&#8217;s fell 24%.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019411","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=1019411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1019428,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019411\/revisions\/1019428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}