{"id":1020915,"date":"2026-07-15T07:46:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1020915"},"modified":"2026-07-15T07:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T02:20:00","slug":"global-smartphone-shipments-in-second-quarter-hit-lowest-in-13-years-on-memory-chip-crunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/15\/global-smartphone-shipments-in-second-quarter-hit-lowest-in-13-years-on-memory-chip-crunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Global smartphone shipments in second quarter hit lowest in 13 years on memory chip crunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Global smartphone shipments fell 11% in the second quarter to their lowest level for the period since 2013, as a prolonged memory chip shortage drove up handset prices and dampened demand, according to early \u200cestimates from Counterpoint \u2060Research. <\/p>\n<p>Apple \u2060bucked the trend with a 3% rise in shipments, taking its global market share to a record 20% in the quarter on resilient demand for its premium iPhone lineup and keeping prices unchanged. However, analysts expect price increases in the \u2060coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global smartphone shipments fell 11% in the second quarter to their lowest level for the period since 2013, as a prolonged memory chip shortage drove up handset prices and dampened demand, according to early \u200cestimates from Counterpoint \u2060Research. Apple \u2060bucked the trend with a 3% rise in shipments, taking its global market share to a record 20% in the quarter on resilient demand for its premium iPhone lineup and keeping prices unchanged. However, analysts expect price increases in the \u2060coming months.<\/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-1020915","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\/1020915","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=1020915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020940,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1020915\/revisions\/1020940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1020915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1020915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1020915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}