{"id":624196,"date":"2026-08-06T20:54:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/624196\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T20:54:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T20:54:23","slug":"weak-yen-and-industry-shifts-drive-greater-demand-for-used-smartphone-handsets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/624196\/","title":{"rendered":"Weak yen and industry shifts drive greater demand for used smartphone handsets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sudden surge in used smartphone sales last month after Apple raised the price of its iPhones reveals how the weak yen and shifts in communication industry practices are reshaping Japan\u2019s consumer market for popular handsets.<\/p>\n<p>Nicosuma, an online marketplace for used smartphones, saw a rush of sales just hours after Apple\u2019s announcement on July 18, with orders more than doubling as of noon compared to the same period the previous day and a week earlier.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuch a spike is quite rare,\u201d said Yu Tomita, chief marketing officer at Tokyo-based Belong, the operator of Nicosuma and a subsidiary of major trading house Itochu. \u201cThe only comparable case we can think of is the iPhone price hike four years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A sudden surge in used smartphone sales last month after Apple raised the price of its iPhones reveals&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[257],"tags":[311,18,19,185,42191,17,279,81185,5756,82,59729],"class_list":["post-624196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-apple","tag-eire","tag-ie","tag-inflation","tag-iphones","tag-ireland","tag-mobile","tag-secondhand","tag-smartphones","tag-technology","tag-yen"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117050557515416154","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}