{"id":995476,"date":"2026-02-28T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995476"},"modified":"2026-02-28T08:10:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T02:40:53","slug":"smartphone-market-set-for-biggest-ever-decline-in-2026-on-memory-price-surge-idc-says-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/28\/smartphone-market-set-for-biggest-ever-decline-in-2026-on-memory-price-surge-idc-says-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone market set for biggest-ever decline in 2026 on memory price surge, IDC says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The global smartphone market is poised to suffer its biggest decline ever in 2026, sinking to a more than decade low in shipments, as surging memory chip prices drive up device costs, the International Data Corporation said on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Smartphone shipments are expected to drop 12.9% to 1.12 billion \u200cunits, the \u2060research firm \u2060said in a report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The global smartphone market is poised to suffer its biggest decline ever in 2026, sinking to a more than decade low in shipments, as surging memory chip prices drive up device costs, the International Data Corporation said on Thursday. Smartphone shipments are expected to drop 12.9% to 1.12 billion \u200cunits, the \u2060research firm \u2060said in a report.<\/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-995476","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\/995476","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=995476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}