{"id":342248,"date":"2026-03-16T15:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/342248\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T15:44:08","slug":"vivo-and-iqoo-are-raising-the-prices-of-select-smartphones-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/342248\/","title":{"rendered":"vivo and iQOO are raising the prices of select smartphones on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oppo and OnePlus are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/oppo_and_oneplus_are_raising_prices_from_march_16-news-71906.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raising prices<\/a> today. Later this week, vivo and iQOO will do the same. In a joint statement, the two brands say that the new pricing will come into effect on March 18 (Wednesday) at 10:00am local time in China.<\/p>\n<p>The statement is for the Chinese market, but it\u2019s likely that the prices on the global market will be affected as well. Right now, it\u2019s not clear which phones will see a price hike \u2013 the statement only says \u201cspecific models.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reason behind this move is no surprise, but vivo and iQOO spell it out anyway \u2013 the rising costs of memory and semiconductors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"image-row clearfix\">&#13;<br \/>\n<a onclick=\"javascript:ShowImg2(&quot;news\/26\/03\/vivo-iqoo-also-raising-prices\/popup\/gsmarena_001.jpg&quot;);return false\" href=\"#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"vivo and iQOO\u2019s statement (in Chinese)\" width=\"326\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773675848_607_gsmarena_001.jpg\"\/><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n<a onclick=\"javascript:ShowImg2(&quot;news\/26\/03\/vivo-iqoo-also-raising-prices\/popup\/gsmarena_002.jpg&quot;);return false\" href=\"#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"vivo and iQOO\u2019s statement (machine translation)\" width=\"326\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773675848_669_gsmarena_002.jpg\"\/><\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n<br \/>vivo and iQOO\u2019s statement: in Chinese \u2022 machine translation<\/p>\n<p>Analysts have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/counterpoint_warns_of_rising_retail_prices_for_smartphones_in_2026_as_memory_costs_explode-news-71891.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">warning of upcoming price increases<\/a> for a while now. Unfortunately, things may be getting worse instead of better \u2013 in addition to the impact that AI hyperscalers have had on the market, now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/videos\/2026-03-13\/iran-war-helium-supply-chip-production-at-risk-video\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">helium supply is at risk<\/a>, which could affect chip production.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-source\"><a href=\"https:\/\/weibo.com\/3097378697\/QwlFn4Art\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Via<\/a> (in Chinese)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oppo and OnePlus are raising prices today. Later this week, vivo and iQOO will do the same. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[85,46,321,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-342248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-mobile","11":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}