{"id":1032621,"date":"2026-09-02T08:24:58","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T02:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032621"},"modified":"2026-09-02T08:39:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T03:09:49","slug":"refurbished-smartphone-market-grows-13-in-h1-2026-as-new-phone-prices-bite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/02\/refurbished-smartphone-market-grows-13-in-h1-2026-as-new-phone-prices-bite\/","title":{"rendered":"Refurbished smartphone market grows 13% in H1 2026 as new phone prices bite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s refurbished smartphone volumes rose 13% year-on-year in the first half of 2026, even as sales of new devices fell around 11%, indicating that rising handset prices have pushed consumers towards lower-cost alternatives. <\/p>\n<p>According to Counterpoint Research, the divergence points to a widening affordability gap in the handset market. Prices for smartphones have climbed, particularly in the cost sensitive entry and mid-range segments. There buyers are thereby relying on used premium devices instead of trading up to a new mid-range phone. <\/p>\n<p>A refurbished flagship, with a better camera, display and processor, is proving a more attractive purchase than a brand-new mid-tier model at a similar price point, according to analysts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s refurbished smartphone volumes rose 13% year-on-year in the first half of 2026, even as sales of new devices fell around 11%, indicating that rising handset prices have pushed consumers towards lower-cost alternatives. According to Counterpoint Research, the divergence points to a widening affordability gap in the handset market. Prices for smartphones have climbed, particularly in the cost sensitive entry and mid-range segments. There buyers are thereby relying on used premium devices instead of trading up to a new mid-range phone. A refurbished flagship, with a better camera, display and processor, is proving a more attractive purchase than a brand-new [&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":[4,64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-financial-express","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032621","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=1032621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032637,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032621\/revisions\/1032637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}