The smaller Fairphone 6 introduces swappable accessories

You tin entree and swap retired respective components successful the Fairphone 6, including its battery, with a azygous screwdriver. | Image: Fairphone

Fairphone has announced its latest repairable smartphone, astir two years aft introducing the past upgrade. The caller Fairphone 6 is smaller and 9 percent lighter than its predecessor, but it includes a larger 4,415mAh artillery — easy replaceable by removing conscionable 7 screws — that volition powerfulness the telephone for up to 53 hours connected a afloat charge. It’s besides much modular than erstwhile versions, with caller accessories similar a paper holder and digit loop that tin beryllium attached to the backmost of the phone.

The Fairphone 6 is disposable present done the company’s online store and different European retailers for €599 (around $696). There are black, green, and achromatic colour options. But arsenic with erstwhile versions dating backmost to the Fairphone 3, the caller exemplary volition lone beryllium disposable successful the US done Murena, and transportation is expected sometime successful August. Instead of moving modular Android, the Murena mentation of the Fairphone 6 volition diagnostic a privacy-focused and de-Googled version of Android that the company calls /e/OS. It’s disposable for preorder present for $899.

The Fairphone 6 has a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 mobile processor, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB of retention that’s expandable up to 2TB utilizing an SDXC card. It besides features a 6.31-inch LTPO OLED show that’s somewhat smaller than the Fairphone 5’s 6.46-inch screen, but with a refresh complaint boosted from 90Hz to 120Hz.

On the back, you’ll find a 50MP main camera and a 13MP ultrawide camera, portion the beforehand has a 32MP hole-punch camera for selfies and video calls. That’s a important measurement down from the Fairphone 5, which utilized 50MP sensors connected each 3 of its cameras.

The Fairphone 6’s carnal plan is akin to the erstwhile model, though the lenses connected the backmost are nary longer located connected a tiny camera bump and alternatively beryllium straight connected the backmost panel. That sheet is much modular now, allowing the little conception to beryllium removed utilizing conscionable 2 screws and replaced with alternatives that adhd much functionality, similar a wallet for holding cards oregon a digit loop for much securely holding the telephone with 1 hand. The thought is akin to the swappable accessories Nothing offers for its CMF Phone 1 and Phone Pro 2, but however utile it volition really beryllium depends connected however galore accessories Fairphone makes available.

Repairability is inactive a precedence for Fairphone, and its caller telephone carries guardant the aforesaid modular plan of past versions. The modular facet lets you entree and swap 12 antithetic parts — including the screen, battery, and USB larboard — utilizing conscionable a azygous modular screwdriver alternatively of specialized tools.

To further widen the Fairphone 6’s lifespan, the institution includes a five-year warranty and promises 8 years of bundle enactment done 2033. But the downside to not having everything wrong the telephone being glued successful spot and sealed choky is that the Fairphone 6 inactive has a constricted IP55 standing for particulate and h2o resistance. It tin get splashed oregon adjacent blasted with a pitchy of water, but it won’t past an accidental submersion.

Aside from show improvements and the caller modular accessories, Fairphone seems to beryllium staying the people with its latest smartphone, but it is introducing 1 further caller diagnostic connected the bundle side: Fairphone Moments. Activated done a carnal power connected the phone’s side, it volition fto you “toggle betwixt a full-featured smartphone and a minimalist experience.” 

We don’t cognize precisely what Fairphone Moments volition beryllium minimizing, but since the institution describes it arsenic being “a mindful mode to prosecute with technology, putting owners successful control, not their notifications,“ it sounds similar an alternate mode that reduces distractions truthful you tin absorption connected circumstantial tasks.