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In a world where prices are rising and economic headwinds are real, customers are naturally making more considered choices, said Zeba Khan, director – consumer electronics at Amazon India, the country’s single-largest online smartphone retailer. “Premium smartphones priced above \u20b9<\/span>60,000 have grown close to 20% year-on-year on Amazon.in, and we are seeing new customers foraying into the premium segment for the first time. Top AI smartphone models have seen 2x growth in sales, and a big part of that is because customers are arriving at their decisions better informed than ever before. This shift is not limited to metros. Two-thirds of our searches now come from Tier 2 and Tier 3 centres, and affordability levers like no-cost EMI, exchange offers, and bank deals have meaningfully improved accessibility,\u201d Khan said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a world where prices are rising and economic headwinds are real, customers are naturally making more considered choices, said Zeba Khan, director – consumer electronics at Amazon India, the country’s single-largest online smartphone retailer. “Premium smartphones priced above \u20b960,000 have grown close to 20% year-on-year on Amazon.in, and we are seeing new customers foraying […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":425163,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[46761,46752,188,183,185,186,46763,289,187,184,6367,8082,46756,495,46759,7700,46755,16997,46749,27335,189,150,182,190],"class_list":["post-425159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-average-life-span","tag-average-life-span-of-a-smartphone","tag-blockchain-tech","tag-blockchain-technology","tag-crypto-technology","tag-cryptocurrency-technology","tag-global-memory-chip-crisis","tag-india","tag-metaverse-technology","tag-nft-technology","tag-premium-phones","tag-premium-smartphones","tag-rising-smartphone-prices","tag-smartphone","tag-smartphone-lifespan","tag-smartphone-market","tag-smartphone-market-in-india","tag-smartphone-prices","tag-smartphone-usage-cycle","tag-software-updates","tag-soul-bound-token","tag-tech","tag-technology","tag-token-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":425170,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425159\/revisions\/425170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/425163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}