{"id":1039336,"date":"2026-09-29T07:49:52","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039336"},"modified":"2026-09-29T07:56:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T02:26:41","slug":"festive-buying-guide-best-smartphones-to-buy-under-rs-50000-amid-price-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/29\/festive-buying-guide-best-smartphones-to-buy-under-rs-50000-amid-price-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Festive buying guide: Best smartphones to buy under Rs 50,000 amid price hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The peak of the festive season is upon us, and if you were willing to buy a new phone this year, the revised prices could have come across as shocking. The chip and RAM shortage, courtesy of AI, has led to a massive hike in prices across the smartphone industry, and hence, phones have become a lot pricier this year. For less than Rs 50,000 now, there are only a handful of smartphones from the midrange segments that make sense. <\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, smartphone brands have been trying their best to offer the most value in a bid to justify the price hikes. Hence, you will see brands like Motorola, Nothing,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The peak of the festive season is upon us, and if you were willing to buy a new phone this year, the revised prices could have come across as shocking. The chip and RAM shortage, courtesy of AI, has led to a massive hike in prices across the smartphone industry, and hence, phones have become a lot pricier this year. For less than Rs 50,000 now, there are only a handful of smartphones from the midrange segments that make sense. Thankfully, smartphone brands have been trying their best to offer the most value in a bid to justify the price [&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-1039336","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\/1039336","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=1039336"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039338,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039336\/revisions\/1039338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}