{"id":590045,"date":"2026-04-17T16:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590045\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:18:09","slug":"india-smartphone-shipments-fall-to-6-year-low-in-q1-amid-price-hikes-counterpoint-research-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/590045\/","title":{"rendered":"India smartphone shipments fall to 6-year low in Q1 amid price hikes, Counterpoint Research says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">April 17 (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/tech.yahoo.com\/phones\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:smartphone;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;smartphone&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">smartphone<\/a> shipments fell 3% year-on-year in the first quarter \u200cof 2026, marking their weakest quarterly \u200cperformance in six years as cost pressures, price \u200bhikes and soft demand weighed on sales, Counterpoint Research said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 Over 80 smartphone models saw average price hikes of \u200c15%, with a \u2060further 15%\u201320% expected in the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 &#8220;The market is facing a \u2060clear affordability squeeze, driven by sharp memory-led cost inflation and currency pressures that have \u200bforced OEMs \u200bto raise prices \u200bacross key models,&#8221; \u200csaid senior analyst Prachir Singh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 &#8220;India&#8217;s smartphone market is expected to remain under pressure in the near term, with Q2 2026 likely to see a double-digit decline,&#8221; research director \u200cTarun Pathak said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 Vivo \u200bled the smartphone market \u200bwith a 21% \u200bshare, followed by Samsung and Oppo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/organizations\/apple\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Apple;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Apple&quot;}\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple<\/a>&#8216;s share reached 9%, \u200bdriven by \u200bsustained demand for the iPhone 17 series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">\u2022 Google was the fastest-growing premium brand, \u200bwith shipments \u200crising 39% year-on-year, helped by AI-led \u200bfeatures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Reporting by Abhinav Parmar in Bengaluru; \u200bEditing by Sonia Cheema)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 17 (Reuters) &#8211; India&#8217;s smartphone shipments fell 3% year-on-year in the first quarter \u200cof 2026, marking their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590046,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[108100,165,58349,180964,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-590045","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-counterpoint-research","9":"tag-mobile","10":"tag-price-hikes","11":"tag-quarterly-performance","12":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}