{"id":1047394,"date":"2026-11-06T07:48:32","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:18:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1047394"},"modified":"2026-11-06T07:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T02:26:10","slug":"planning-to-buy-smartphone-prices-to-rise-30-soon-says-jefferies-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/06\/planning-to-buy-smartphone-prices-to-rise-30-soon-says-jefferies-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Planning to buy smartphone? Prices to rise 30% soon, says Jefferies report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buying a new smartphone could become significantly more expensive in the coming months, particularly for people looking at budget Android devices. A sharp increase in memory component costs, fuelled by the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, could push prices of low-end smartphones up by nearly 30%, according to a report by global brokerage firm Jefferies. The rising cost of components is creating fresh challenges for smartphone manufacturers. With AI companies consuming an increasingly large share of global memory supplies, manufacturers are facing higher input costs. These expenses could eventually be passed on to buyers, making affordable smartphones less accessible. For consumers, this could mean paying considerably more for a phone with similar specifications or postponing an upgrade altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buying a new smartphone could become significantly more expensive in the coming months, particularly for people looking at budget Android devices. A sharp increase in memory component costs, fuelled by the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, could push prices of low-end smartphones up by nearly 30%, according to a report by global brokerage firm Jefferies. The rising cost of components is creating fresh challenges for smartphone manufacturers. With AI companies consuming an increasingly large share of global memory supplies, manufacturers are facing higher input costs. These expenses could eventually be passed on to buyers, making affordable smartphones less accessible. For consumers, [&hellip;]<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047394","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=1047394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1047418,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047394\/revisions\/1047418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}