{"id":1021956,"date":"2026-07-18T08:08:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021956"},"modified":"2026-07-18T08:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T02:38:55","slug":"indias-smartphone-shipments-fall-10-in-q2-biggest-june-quarter-drop-in-six-years-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/18\/indias-smartphone-shipments-fall-10-in-q2-biggest-june-quarter-drop-in-six-years-2\/","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s smartphone shipments fall 10% in Q2, biggest June-quarter drop in six years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s smartphone shipments fell 10% year-on-year in the April-June quarter, recording the steepest decline for a June quarter in six years as surging memory prices forced brands to raise handset prices, hurting consumer demand, according to Counterpoint Research&#8217;s Monthly India Smartphone Tracker. <\/p>\n<p>The research firm expects the pressure to continue through the rest of the year, forecasting a 13% decline in smartphone shipments in 2026 as elevated component costs keep devices expensive and consumers delay upgrades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s smartphone shipments fell 10% year-on-year in the April-June quarter, recording the steepest decline for a June quarter in six years as surging memory prices forced brands to raise handset prices, hurting consumer demand, according to Counterpoint Research&#8217;s Monthly India Smartphone Tracker. The research firm expects the pressure to continue through the rest of the year, forecasting a 13% decline in smartphone shipments in 2026 as elevated component costs keep devices expensive and consumers delay upgrades.<\/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-1021956","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\/1021956","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=1021956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021974,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021956\/revisions\/1021974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}