If you’re in the market for a new phone next year, you might want to hold off a little bit. According to Android Authority, phones are about to become more expensive due to recent inflation in RAM prices, with new reports suggesting that phone specs could actually start going down as a result .

According to Korean leaker Lanzuk on the blog Naver , the surge in memory prices will force the smartphone industry to raise prices and lower specs, starting in Q1 of 2026. Reportedly, phones with 16GB of storage will pretty much disappear, except for rare outliers. It is a similar story for 12GB devices, as those models are down by over 40 per cent, with more and more manufacturers opting for 6GB and 8GB RAM models as the base variants.

Even then, numbers have decreased by over 50 per cent for th

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