Fairphone 6 is the last of the members of a very special family. One that has always been characterized by its modularity and repability, but that now others leaves us a unique detail. This mobile designed in Europe is a sweet revenge for users of the old continent. We are normally used to paying more for our devices than users pay in the US, but in this case the opposite happens.
How much does an iPhone cost here and there. Let’s put a simple example of the situation of electronic devices prices in the US and in Europe. An iPhone 16 Pro of 128 GB costs $ 999 in the US. At that Price we must add state taxes, which vary between each State and that can become 10%. Thus, the price can amount to about $ 1,100, taxes included. To the current change that would be equivalent to about 944 euros. The price of that same device in our country, taxes included, is currently 1,219 euros. It is 29.13% more expensive.
A different mobile. And now let’s talk about Fairphone 6. We are facing a smartphone that is very different from its competitors. Not so much for its benefits – always more modest than its competitors in the same price range – but for an approach that bets to the maximum for modularity and repair. In Europe the price of Fairphone 6 with Android 15 (8/256 GB) is available for 599 euros, taxes included.
Long live the right to repair. Fairphone 6 will not win any career for power or the best cameras, but the right to repair. Simply remove conventional screws – still of strange or owner heads – to access the interior and be able to extract up to 12 parts of the terminal, from the screen to the battery through the speakers or the camera.
The normal thing is that technology is more expensive in Europe than in the US. With Fairphone 6, the opposite is the opposite. Own elaboration with Apple and Fairphone data.
El Fairphone 6 with E/OS. And here comes the interesting thing, because in addition to the Android version the Fairphone 6 is also sold by the Murena company. In this case, it is pre -installed E/OS, a version of Android AOSP that “releases” from Google’s services and applications although we can later urge them thanks to the Microg support. In Europe Murena sells its Fairphone 6 with E/OS for 649 euros, and that is precisely the model that is available in the US.
This mobile is expensive in the US. Murena also offers Fairphone 6 with E/OS in the United States, but in that case the price of is $ 899. If we apply the same state rate, which can reach 10%, that price becomes about 989 dollars, which the change involves 849 euros. That is: in the US this mobile costs $ 200 more, 30.82% more than it costs us in Europe.
Duty. There are several reasons for that difference between the price of Fairphone 6 in Europe and in the US, but one of them is that of tariffs. This mobile is manufactured in China but is barely affected by tariffs when marketing it in Europe. On the other hand, the commercial war with the US makes exports from China apply, which involve an important cost for companies that want to offer these products in the North American country.
Sweet revenge. And to that fact is added another: in Europe we usually pay more for electronics products than they do in the US even taking into account the Euro-Doming parity (which now favors us) or the different state taxes of that country. But it is also in Europe, we usually “earn less” than in the US and therefore “it costs us more than our money” to Buy those products. In 2023 according to the World Bank, the GDP per capita in the US was $ 86,000, while for example in Spain it was $ 56,000.
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