{"id":323006,"date":"2026-03-10T20:35:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:35:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/323006\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T20:35:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:35:13","slug":"chinas-smartphones-are-about-to-get-pricier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/323006\/","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s smartphones are about to get pricier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Find us on <a class=\"Link_link__qPD1b\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/tech-latest\/id1681051269\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a class=\"Link_link__qPD1b\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/1kIAn2Hn9LMzuHcgsr4j1r\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spotify<\/a> | <a class=\"Link_link__qPD1b\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLDMHTNEQhPXYjMOnnY4it9Vb70UOkOl9k\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube<\/a> | <a class=\"Link_link__qPD1b\" href=\"https:\/\/music.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLDMHTNEQhPXYjMOnnY4it9Vb70UOkOl9k\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">YouTube Music<\/a> | <a class=\"Link_link__qPD1b\" href=\"https:\/\/music.amazon.co.jp\/podcasts\/31e468fe-b272-4b93-9fd3-3c2ecd11a9fa\/tech-latest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Amazon Music<\/a> | <a class=\"Link_link__qPD1b\" href=\"https:\/\/voicy.jp\/channel\/3635\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Voicy<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">Welcome to the Tech Latest podcast. Every Tuesday, our tech experts Katey Creel and Shotaro Tani deliver the hottest trends and news from the sector.<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">In this episode, Katey speaks with Hong Kong correspondent Cissy Zhou about why China&#8217;s smartphone market is seeing one of its biggest and widest price hikes ever.<\/p>\n<p>Check out this episode&#8217;s featured story:<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">&#8212; <a class=\"Link_link__qPD1b\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/electronics\/steep-price-hikes-hit-china-s-smartphone-market-as-memory-crunch-deepens\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Steep price hikes hit China&#8217;s smartphone market as memory crunch deepens<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">And <a class=\"Link_link__qPD1b\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/member\/register\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">register for our weekly #techAsia newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Find us on Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | YouTube Music | Amazon Music | Voicy Welcome&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[192,4413,1333,342,111,139,69,174470,871,145],"class_list":["post-323006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-are","tag-chinas","tag-get","tag-mobile","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-pricier","tag-smartphones","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}