{"id":1021893,"date":"2026-07-18T07:36:49","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021893"},"modified":"2026-07-18T07:38:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:08:36","slug":"chinese-smartphone-makers-hit-six-year-low-in-india-in-2q26-apple-shipments-also-fall-counterpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/18\/chinese-smartphone-makers-hit-six-year-low-in-india-in-2q26-apple-shipments-also-fall-counterpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese smartphone makers hit six-year low in India in 2Q26; Apple shipments also fall: Counterpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The cumulative volume share of Chinese smartphone vendors hit a six-year low in the Indian market in the second quarter of 2026, due to their heavy exposure to the entry- and mid-tier segments, as component cost-driven price hikes impacted consumer demand, said Counterpoint Research in its latest report released Friday. <\/p>\n<p>This marked the lowest level for a second calendar quarter since 2020. <\/p>\n<p>Despite being ranked first, Vivo\u2019s share declined from 19.2% in Q2 2025 to 17.8% in Q2 2026. Second-ranked South Korean Samsung, on the contrary, saw a 2% year-on-year growth, while its share grew from 15.5% to 17.6% during this period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The cumulative volume share of Chinese smartphone vendors hit a six-year low in the Indian market in the second quarter of 2026, due to their heavy exposure to the entry- and mid-tier segments, as component cost-driven price hikes impacted consumer demand, said Counterpoint Research in its latest report released Friday. This marked the lowest level for a second calendar quarter since 2020. Despite being ranked first, Vivo\u2019s share declined from 19.2% in Q2 2025 to 17.8% in Q2 2026. Second-ranked South Korean Samsung, on the contrary, saw a 2% year-on-year growth, while its share grew from 15.5% to [&hellip;]<\/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-1021893","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\/1021893","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=1021893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021904,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021893\/revisions\/1021904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}