{"id":1046579,"date":"2026-11-03T07:59:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T02:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1046579"},"modified":"2026-11-03T08:41:43","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T03:11:43","slug":"smartphone-buyers-shift-to-premium-refurbished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/03\/smartphone-buyers-shift-to-premium-refurbished\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone buyers shift to premium, refurbished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rising smartphone prices are beginning to reshape buying patterns, with consumers either stretching their budgets to buy higher-priced devices or turning to refurbished premium models, even as demand for entry-level handsets weakens. <\/p>\n<p>Sales of smartphones priced below Rs 20,000 declined by more than 30% year-on-year during the initial days of the pre-Diwali festive season, as higher memory chip prices made devices less affordable. The trend is prompting manufacturers and retailers to step up discounts and cashback offers to sustain demand in a segment that accounts for a significant share of industry volumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising smartphone prices are beginning to reshape buying patterns, with consumers either stretching their budgets to buy higher-priced devices or turning to refurbished premium models, even as demand for entry-level handsets weakens. Sales of smartphones priced below Rs 20,000 declined by more than 30% year-on-year during the initial days of the pre-Diwali festive season, as higher memory chip prices made devices less affordable. The trend is prompting manufacturers and retailers to step up discounts and cashback offers to sustain demand in a segment that accounts for a significant share of industry volumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1046579","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\/1046579","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1046579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1046581,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1046579\/revisions\/1046581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1046579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1046579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1046579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}