Manufacturers have been warning about this for months and it seems that The widespread price increases in mobile phones and tablets due to the shortage of RAM have already arrived. Last week it was Motorola who announced increases of up to 50% on some models in the United States and is now Samsung who is applying them. According to Phone Arena, the South Korean company has increased the prices of the Galaxy Z Flip 7, Galaxy S25 FE and Galaxy S25 Edge in versions with more storage. The base models maintain their price, but the others are now up to 80 dollars more expensive.
Thus, the 512 GB Galaxy Z Flip 7 goes up from $1,219.99 to $1,299.99the 256GB Galaxy S25 FE passes from $709.99 to $749.99 and the 512GB Galaxy S25 Edge also increases $1,219.99 to $1,299.99.
This increase is added to those already applied by Samsung last week. He Galaxy Z Fold 7 of 1 TB increased from $2,419 to $2,499while the 512 GB version passed from $2,119 to $2,199. However, Samsung’s price hikes don’t end with its phones, as Phone Arena spotted increases across its entire tablet rangeregardless of storage capacity.
The Galaxy Tab S11 128 GB, for example, now costs $899.99 instead of $799.99while the Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra 256 GB has passed from $1,199.99 to $1,299.99. Meanwhile, the Galaxy Tab S10 FE went up from $499.99 to $549.99and even the Galaxy Tab A11 Plus 128 GB, aimed at the economic range and launched at $249.99now it costs $299.99.
All of these increases have been announced for the US market, but it is to be expected that They arrive in Spain and the rest of the markets sooner rather than later.
The cause of the general increases is ‘RAMmageddon’
All these changes are a consequence of what is informally known as ‘RAMmageddon’. That is, the global memory shortage that began to be noticed last September due to the enormous demand for data centers for AIwhich has caused the price increase of both RAM and flash memory NANDused to manufacture SSD.
The dilemma facing manufacturers of mobile phones, tablets, computers and, soon, any device with memory is cut benefits or raise pricesthe latter the option that seems to have been chosen by Samsung and others. The company also increased the prices of its laptops last week Galaxy Book 6 Pro and Book 6 Ultraand Microsoft joined the party on Monday with increases in its models Surface Pro and Surface Laptop.