{"id":1039661,"date":"2026-09-30T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039661"},"modified":"2026-09-30T09:18:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T03:48:06","slug":"smartphone-prices-jump-16-in-h1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/30\/smartphone-prices-jump-16-in-h1\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone prices jump 16% in H1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphone prices in India rose by an average 16% in the first half of 2026, as manufacturers passed on a sharp increase in memory and other component costs to consumers. However, OnePlus was among the few brands to buck the broader price-increase trend, keeping its price increase to 8%. <\/p>\n<p>According to Counterpoint Research, India\u2019s average smartphone selling price rose to a record $318 in Q2 2026. The price-sensitive low-end segment bore the brunt of the increase. Phones priced below Rs 10,000 saw the sharpest price hikes of around 32%, given the larger share of memory costs in these devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smartphone prices in India rose by an average 16% in the first half of 2026, as manufacturers passed on a sharp increase in memory and other component costs to consumers. However, OnePlus was among the few brands to buck the broader price-increase trend, keeping its price increase to 8%. According to Counterpoint Research, India\u2019s average smartphone selling price rose to a record $318 in Q2 2026. The price-sensitive low-end segment bore the brunt of the increase. Phones priced below Rs 10,000 saw the sharpest price hikes of around 32%, given the larger share of memory costs in these devices.<\/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-1039661","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\/1039661","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=1039661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039670,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039661\/revisions\/1039670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}