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Smartphone shipments just hit their lowest second quarter since 2013 while the average phone price jumps 21% to an all-time high. The damage lands hardest at the bottom: the cheap phone is being hollowed out to feed the AI memory boom, and the industry is getting richer as it happens.
Nine phones ranked by published lab measurements, not launch-event applause. The best phone of the year is ten months old, the battery record holder's maker just quit America, and the smartest buying move of 2026 might be ignoring September entirely.
While Wall Street cheers Nvidia's record supply chain numbers, a catastrophic DRAM and NAND shortage is quietly pushing consumer tech companies toward bankruptcy - ushering in a new era of forced regression for your next laptop and smartphone.