{"id":989407,"date":"2026-02-03T07:28:39","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T01:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989407"},"modified":"2026-02-03T07:37:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:07:43","slug":"india-smartphone-market-surges-8-on-year-by-value-in-2025-led-by-apple-samsung-counterpoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/03\/india-smartphone-market-surges-8-on-year-by-value-in-2025-led-by-apple-samsung-counterpoint\/","title":{"rendered":"India smartphone market surges 8% on-year by value in 2025, led by Apple, Samsung: Counterpoint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The volumes in the India smartphone market grew by 1% year-on-year in 2025, but recorded a stronger 8% year-on-year value growth, as handset makers \u2013 including Apple and Samsung \u2013 continued to benefit from demand for premium devices, according to the latest data released by Counterpoint Research on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s smartphone shipments declined 4% year-on-year in Q4 2025, mainly due to seasonal post-festive demand slowdown, further aggravated by price hikes due to rising memory prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: The volumes in the India smartphone market grew by 1% year-on-year in 2025, but recorded a stronger 8% year-on-year value growth, as handset makers \u2013 including Apple and Samsung \u2013 continued to benefit from demand for premium devices, according to the latest data released by Counterpoint Research on Monday. India\u2019s smartphone shipments declined 4% year-on-year in Q4 2025, mainly due to seasonal post-festive demand slowdown, further aggravated by price hikes due to rising memory prices.<\/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-989407","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\/989407","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=989407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}