{"id":982490,"date":"2025-12-30T08:01:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982490"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:10:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T02:40:51","slug":"ai-to-be-core-selling-point-as-smartphone-makers-look-to-stand-out-amid-rising-hardware-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/30\/ai-to-be-core-selling-point-as-smartphone-makers-look-to-stand-out-amid-rising-hardware-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"AI to be core selling point, as smartphone makers look to stand out amid rising hardware costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Smartphones in 2026 are expected to double down on artificial intelligence as a core selling point, powered by new flagship chips optimised for on-device generative AI capabilities such as summarisation, image creation, and offline assistants to drive software-based differentiation amid rising hardware costs. <\/p>\n<p>Shipments of AI-capable phones in India more than doubled year-on-year in Q3 2025, and is expected to grow just as fast in 2026. According to Omdia, 12% of India&#8217;s annual smartphone shipments in 2025 is expected to be AI-capable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Smartphones in 2026 are expected to double down on artificial intelligence as a core selling point, powered by new flagship chips optimised for on-device generative AI capabilities such as summarisation, image creation, and offline assistants to drive software-based differentiation amid rising hardware costs. Shipments of AI-capable phones in India more than doubled year-on-year in Q3 2025, and is expected to grow just as fast in 2026. According to Omdia, 12% of India&#8217;s annual smartphone shipments in 2025 is expected to be AI-capable.<\/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":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982490","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\/982490","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=982490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}