With the flagship smartphone market in a continued state of stagnation and extra folks making an effort to be extra sustainable with their tech purchases, it seems like a superb time for the to reach. It’s been practically two years for the reason that first launched, and as you’d anticipate, its successor is one other extremely repairable modular smartphone designed to final you a very long time.
The Fairphone 6 is smaller and lighter than its predecessor, and ships with a 4415mAh battery that Fairphone says will final you almost two days. You may get 50 p.c of juice again into the telephone in 25 minutes with a 30W charger. When that battery inevitably degrades a number of years down the road, it’s one of many 12 elements within the telephone that may be swapped out after eradicating a number of screws. Nothing within the telephone is glued down, so tinkering is totally inspired right here. That mentioned, just like the Fairphone 5 earlier than it, its water and mud resistance is simply rated at IP55, which suggests it received’t take properly to a swim.
The Fairphone 6 has a 6.31-inch 1,116 x 2,484 OLED show with as much as a 120Hz refresh price, which is a soar up from the earlier mannequin’s 90 Hz panel. You get 256GB of inside storage which is expandable by as much as 2TB by way of microSD, and the telephone is powered by a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3.
As for cameras, you may have a 50MP important rear lens with as much as 10x digital zoom, which is flanked by a 13MP ultra-wide digital camera. On the entrance, there’s a 32-megapixel selfie digital camera. On paper, the Fairphone’s photographic arsenal is definitely a reasonably sizable step downgrade from its predecessor, which used a 50MP lens for all three cameras.
The Fairphone 6 runs Android 15 and its maker ensures updates till 2033 (on high of the telephone’s five-year guarantee). There’s additionally some customized software program known as Fairphone Moments. Activated by flicking the lime green-colored swap on the aspect of the machine, it’s successfully a minimalist focus mode that permits you to streamline your telephone to indicate solely 5 apps of your alternative. You possibly can have a number of Moments collections, from necessities to extra relaxation-oriented apps.
In addition to the telephone’s modular innards, you’re additionally free to interchange its backplates with customized options with built-in options like a cardholder, finger loop or lanyard. And that is still the principle enchantment of the Fairphone model. The pretty mid-range specs are much less essential than its future-proofed, anti-wastage design.
The Fairphone 6 is available for purchase for €599 (round $695), and is available in three colours: Cloud White, Forest Inexperienced and Horizon Black.
