{"id":844493,"date":"2024-08-14T10:19:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T04:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=844493"},"modified":"2024-08-14T10:19:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T04:49:48","slug":"the-smartphone-paradox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/14\/the-smartphone-paradox\/","title":{"rendered":"The smartphone paradox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Market trackers are divided in their report card on smartphone shipments in the April-June quarter. While IDC and Canalys say the market grew 3.2% and 1% year-on-year, respectively, Counterpoint Research and CMR estimate shipments to have declined 2% and 4%. All experts, though, say a muted consumer demand and rising average selling prices will continue to drag overall recovery of the market. Text by Subhrojit Mallick<\/p>\n<p>QUARTERLY HIGHLIGHTS (IDC)<br \/>\nSmartphone shipments grew 7.2% on-year in the first half of 2024, clocking 69 million in volumes even as average selling prices grew by 2.8% year-on-year to $248<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Market trackers are divided in their report card on smartphone shipments in the April-June quarter. While IDC and Canalys say the market grew 3.2% and 1% year-on-year, respectively, Counterpoint Research and CMR estimate shipments to have declined 2% and 4%. All experts, though, say a muted consumer demand and rising average selling prices will continue to drag overall recovery of the market. Text by Subhrojit Mallick QUARTERLY HIGHLIGHTS (IDC) Smartphone shipments grew 7.2% on-year in the first half of 2024, clocking 69 million in volumes even as average selling prices grew by 2.8% year-on-year to $248<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-844493","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\/844493","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=844493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}