{"id":95017,"date":"2025-12-23T13:36:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=95017"},"modified":"2025-12-23T13:36:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:36:59","slug":"smartphone-prices-expected-to-rise-sharply-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/mobile-phones\/smartphone-prices-expected-to-rise-sharply-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Smartphone prices expected to rise sharply in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: If you are planning to buy a new <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/nadra-launches-mobile-registration-facility-across-punjab\/\">smartphone<\/a> in 2026, then know that this year will be quite bad for buying a new device.<\/p>\n<p>This is because the prices of smartphones are likely to increase significantly in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by analyst company Counterpoint, the prices of RAM used in phones have increased rapidly in recent months, which will have a negative impact on smartphones in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>The company has revised its forecasts for smartphone sales for 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, it said that smartphone sales would increase next year, but now it says that the smartphone market will shrink by 2.1%.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the prices of RAM or memory chips could increase by another 40% during the second quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>RAM prices increased by 8 to 25% in December compared to the beginning of 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Counterpoint said that smartphone manufacturers could reduce the number of devices worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Smaller companies will be more affected than Apple and other large companies.<\/p>\n<p>According to experts, the smartphone market has already made changes to its products and reduced features due to the increase in the cost of devices.<\/p>\n<p>The quality of camera modules in some phones has been reduced, while displays, audio components and memory, etc. have also been reduced.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts warned that smartphone prices could increase by up to 7% next year.<\/p>\n<p>However, if you are used to buying companies&#8217; flagships or expensive models, this difference will not be much noticeable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: If you are planning to buy a new smartphone in 2026, then know that this year will be quite bad for buying a new device. This is because the prices of smartphones are likely to increase significantly in 2026. According to a report by analyst company Counterpoint, the prices of RAM used in phones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":89857,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14812],"tags":[32425],"class_list":["post-95017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile-phones","tag-smartphone-prices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":95018,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95017\/revisions\/95018"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}