Fairphone’s latest repairable phone is going on sale in the US

The Fairphone 6 Plus is simply a insignificant hardware refresh, but a awesome motorboat for the company: It’s the first telephone that Fairphone is trading straight successful the US. It’s connected waste now for $649.99, disposable done Fairphone’s website and Amazon, and is sold unlocked pinch support for some T-Mobile and AT&T. In Europe it costs €649, a €50 summation connected past year’s phone.

Fairphones from the 4 onwards person been disposable to bargain successful the US, but ne'er from Fairphone itself. They were exclusively sold done a business pinch Murena, the developer of /e/OS, a “de-Googled” type of Android. That meant buyers were forced to usage Murena’s package — which is capable, but surely an acquired sensation — and paid a important premium for the phone. Last year’s Fairphone 6 sold for $899.

The 6 Plus is yet a very akin instrumentality to the Fairphone 6, which is nary bad point — I liked the 6 a lot, giving it 7/10 successful my reappraisal past year, and would person scored it higher were it not for the unfriendly US value tag. The 6 Plus builds connected it pinch a faster chipset — Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7s Gen 4, which is firmly midrange but a coagulated performer — and an industry-bucking jump up to 12GB of RAM.

Other specs are identical. You get the aforesaid 6.31-inch OLED show (the “Plus” successful the sanction doesn’t bespeak immoderate existent summation successful size), basal double rear camera, and 4,415mAh battery. Storage remains astatine 256GB, pinch a microSD paper slot for description by different 2TB. It launches moving Android 16, and will person package support until 2033.

The creation is the aforesaid too, meaning this telephone is apt to lucifer the 10/10 repairability score that iFixit gave to the 6. Replacement parts will beryllium sold successful the US, ranging from $7.99 for a SIM tray to $89.99 for a caller display, and almost the full telephone tin beryllium disassembled pinch a azygous Torx T5 screwdriver, thing I put to the trial pinch past year’s Fairphone 6.

There’s besides a scope of modular accessories, including a paper holder and lanyard, which screw onto the phone’s rear. These are besides identical to past year’s Fairphone 6 range, isolated from a caller bluish color, besides disposable for the telephone itself. It’s named Cobalt Blue, successful a motion to the company’s ongoing efforts to support much ethical cobalt mining.

Fairphone has been building up to the US motorboat of the 6 Plus, bringing audio products to Amazon US starting pinch the Fairbuds XL over-ear headphones last November. Alongside the announcement of the 6 Plus, the institution has confirmed that a caller brace of earbuds, the Fairbuds 2, will motorboat successful Q4 this year, and “will group a caller barroom for repairability and performance.” The institution says it will uncover much successful October.