{"id":1030266,"date":"2026-08-21T08:34:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1030266"},"modified":"2026-08-21T08:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T03:13:06","slug":"smartphone-prices-rise-as-memory-costs-surge-realme-oppo-vivo-samsung-oneplus-hike-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/21\/smartphone-prices-rise-as-memory-costs-surge-realme-oppo-vivo-samsung-oneplus-hike-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone prices rise as memory costs surge: Realme, Oppo, Vivo, Samsung, OnePlus hike rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphone prices are rising as higher memory and chipset costs squeeze manufacturers&#8217; margins, with Realme, Oppo, Vivo, Samsung and OnePlus hiking prices across select models. <\/p>\n<p>The price hikes are coming at a difficult time for the market, with consumers already becoming more cautious about spending. Counterpoint Research&#8217;s India Weekly Smartphone Sellout Tracker found that sales during April-July 2026 were largely below year-ago levels, with major online sales offering only temporary relief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphone prices are rising as higher memory and chipset costs squeeze manufacturers&#8217; margins, with Realme, Oppo, Vivo, Samsung and OnePlus hiking prices across select models. The price hikes are coming at a difficult time for the market, with consumers already becoming more cautious about spending. Counterpoint Research&#8217;s India Weekly Smartphone Sellout Tracker found that sales during April-July 2026 were largely below year-ago levels, with major online sales offering only temporary relief.<\/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-1030266","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\/1030266","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=1030266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1030287,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030266\/revisions\/1030287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1030266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1030266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1030266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}