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By Prompt AI News1 min read
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As TechCrunch first reported, India's smartphone market is under pressure from AI features that are driving up memory requirements and pushing prices out of reach for a large segment of consumers. The source of the tension: AI-heavy flagship phones increasingly require 12GB or more of RAM, while India's consumers have built their expectations around capable devices at much lower price points.
The arithmetic is difficult for manufacturers. Companies selling premium AI-enabled devices in India are bumping against a consumer base where price sensitivity is deeply structural — not just a preference but a market reality. India is the world's second-largest smartphone market, which means whatever happens there is not a regional footnote.
The slowdown is a concrete sign that AI's appetite for compute is not confined to data centers. As on-device AI features become standard expectations in flagship hardware, the premium those features command may increasingly squeeze growth in markets that have been reliable engines for smartphone volume. That is a problem for the entire handset industry, not just its Indian distributors.
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