#phone price hike

There's no other way to call this recent and drastic price increases of smartphones in the Philippines. Smartphone prices have jumped to unprecedented levels. [table id=2246 /] Trends / Observations From 2023 to 2025, there was very little or insignificant difference in the suggested retail prices of smartphone models. The exception would be Apple when it increase the price of iPhones between Php6,000 to Php7,000 from 2023 to 2024 (iPhone 13 vs. Majority of the price hikes across generations happened in 2026. The vivo V70 logged an Php11,000 hike and completed the record 5-digit price increase of the entire catalog. Among all the Android smartphone brands, OPPO logged the lowest price increases on its models -- Php2,000 on the OPPO Reno 15 Pro and Php5,000 on both variants of the OPPO Reno 15. In contrast, Apple recorded a price decrease this year on the iPhone 16 (-Php2,000) and iPhone 16 Pro (-Php1,000) compared to the iPhone 15 series from last year. Read more in our articles including "Expensive Phones: This is the result of the "RAM crisis"" and "Top iPhone 3G Alternatives".