{"id":1039569,"date":"2026-09-30T08:27:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T02:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039569"},"modified":"2026-09-30T08:28:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T02:58:35","slug":"india-smartphone-prices-jump-16-in-first-half-of-2026-market-seen-shrinking-double-digits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/30\/india-smartphone-prices-jump-16-in-first-half-of-2026-market-seen-shrinking-double-digits\/","title":{"rendered":"India smartphone prices jump 16% in first half of 2026; market seen shrinking double digits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Average smartphone selling prices in India climbed 16% year-over-year in the first half of 2026, driven by a sharp rise in memory component costs and a depreciating rupee, according to market research firm Counterpoint Research. <\/p>\n<p>The surge pushed the country&#8217;s average smartphone selling price to a record USD 318 in the second quarter of 2026. The broader smartphone market is now projected to contract by double digits, though Chinese brand OnePlus remains a notable exception due to more modest price adjustments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Average smartphone selling prices in India climbed 16% year-over-year in the first half of 2026, driven by a sharp rise in memory component costs and a depreciating rupee, according to market research firm Counterpoint Research. The surge pushed the country&#8217;s average smartphone selling price to a record USD 318 in the second quarter of 2026. The broader smartphone market is now projected to contract by double digits, though Chinese brand OnePlus remains a notable exception due to more modest price adjustments.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039569","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=1039569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039600,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039569\/revisions\/1039600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}