That $100 phone you were going to grab for your kid’s first device, or hand down to grandma, could become a dream in a while. AI’s hunger for memory chips just made the entire budget phone category ...

Buying a genuinely cheap smartphone could soon become a lot harder, and the reason has little to do with what’s happening inside the smartphone industry itself. The enormous amount of hardware being ...

Report claims production of budget smartphones could drop by 40% by 2030 The increasing costs of RAM and chipsets thanks to the AI data center boom are key factors in the forecast In addition, basic ...

According to the latest analyst forecasts, higher smartphone prices won’t be changing anytime soon amid a record-setting drop in shipments. IDC reports that its forecast for the 2026 global smartphone ...