Fairphone 6 comes in three colors: Black, Forest Green and White | Image credit: Fairphone
Dutch company Fairphone has just introduced its new modular smartphone, Fairphone 6. We’ve been talking about the device for about a week now, but if you haven’t been following our news feed, the main selling point of the Fairphone 6 is how easy it is to repair and replace parts of it, either for customization or due to failing.Because this is a mid-range phone, you’d expect to be priced below the $500 / €500 price mark, but Fairphone 6 is a pretty expensive device. That’s partly due to the fact that Fairphone 6 is a “clean” device assembled in factories with fair labor conditions.
As such, Fairphone is asking €600 for the Android version and €650 for the /e/OS variant. In the US, Fairphone sells only the /e/OS model through its local partner Murena. Fairphone 6 is available for pre-order in the US for $900, but it won’t ship until August.
Fairphone 6 is the company’s fairest phone yet
- Made with more than 50% fair and recycled materials (by total weight)
- Cobalt sourced through Fair Cobalt Alliance, an initiative Fairphone helped to create
- Includes fair-mined gold and silver, and fair tungsten
- Includes recycled aluminum & rare earth metals 100% e-waste neutral
- Factories powered by 100% renewable energy
- Supports better working conditions and living wages for the makers
Fairphone 6 allows users to attach various accessories | Image credit: Fairphone
Parts like the battery, screen, USB ports, and individual cameras can be easily swapped in case of need. Not to mention that Fairphone offers a five-year warranty for Fairphone 6 and no less than eight years of software support (seven major Android OS upgrades guaranteed). In comparison, Google offers just 1 year of manufacturer warranty for its latest Pixel phones.
Fairphone 6 specs:
- Display: 6.31-inch LTPO OLED, FHD+ resolution, 10-120 Hz dynamize refresh rate, Corning Gorilla Glass 7i
- Chipset: Qualcomm Snapdragon 7s Gen 3
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Storage: 256 GB (expandable up to 2 TB)
- Camera: 50MP main (Sony Lytia 700C sensor), 13MP ultra-wide
- Front camera: 32MP (Samsung KD1 sensor)
- Battery: 4,415 mAh, 30W wired
Prices for Fairphone 6 parts and accessories | Image credit: Fairphone
Another new feature that Fairphone 6 brings compared to its predecessors is Fairphone Moments, “a calm, distraction-free space that’s more than a focus mode.” According to Fairphone, users can create their unique Moment with five essential apps and shut out everything else.
