Flagship Android phones could see a significant price hike in the new year. The production costs of the models have increased being transferred.
Wang Teng Thomas, a senior executive at Xiaomi sub-brand Redmishared a post on his Weibo account saying that phone production costs have increased and asked his followers an important question. The manager asked whether they would prefer a smartphone with reduced features to maintain the current prices or a phone with new generation advanced features but more expensive. The manager stated that everyone wants to increase the quality without increasing the prices, but this is very difficult now.implicitly indicates that phones coming in the new year will be more expensive. It is expected that flagship phones in particular will see a significant increase in prices in the new year. As far as we know, Qualcomm The new flagship phone processor is also on the way with a significant price increase. Unfortunately, these increases are reflected in the sales price, that is, the end user.
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Before that, a Consumer Intelligence Research Partners report attracted attention. The migration rate from Android to iPhone, Shared by CIRP Second quarter of 2024 According to the report It was exactly 17 percentThe shared report is due in the second quarter of 2024. It shows that 17 percent of iPhone buyers were previously Android users.
It is stated that this is the highest rate that CIRP has seen in the last five years. Apple, which still achieves very high sales figures and dominates the best-selling phone lists with the iPhones it introduced in September 2023has been making waves lately with its many new iPhones.