New Delhi, Dec. 14 -- With prices of memory chip rising, there has been a growing fear that the smartphone prices are going to get up in the new year. However, a new leak has revealed that the prices of Samsung's already incumbent devices may also be in for a hike.

As per a leak by tipster Abhishek Yadav on X (formerly Twitter), Samsung's A series prices are set to increase starting from Monday. The tipster claims that the Galaxy A56 will see a price hike of around Rs.2,000 while other models in the A series could see a price hike of around Rs.1,000.

Galaxy A17 was launched in August in India at a starting price of Rs.18,999 for the 6GB RAM/128GB storage model and went up to Rs.23,499 for the top end 8GB RAM/256GB variant.

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