characteristics, price and technical file

Two years after the launch of the Fairphone 5the European Fairphone returns to the load with a new terminal with three key pillars: the power, the repair and the support. Your new Fairphone 6 The witness of his predecessors collects offering the user a terminal not only competent in the technical, but a device that promises to be updated for a long time and offers the possibility of doing such unthinkable things today as changing the battery or screen for oneself.

That, in a world of increasingly thin, difficult to repair terminals, is a breath of fresh air. This device seems to comply with the letter with The objectives of the European Unionorganism that has made the right to repair One of his cornerstones And that, little by little, it has made manufacturers adopt more complete policies in terms of durability and repair.

Fairphone 6 Technical Card

Screws, what a beautiful name you have

The device has a minimalist finish, very simple, and a modular design whose objective is that the user can open it, manipulate it, update it, repair it and even customize it. Unlike other terminals, which develop finer and aesthetic mobiles At the cost of using glue and complicated assembliesFairphone has opted for a more “archaic” solution, but useful: screws.

It is possible to extract 12 parts of the terminal, from the screen to the battery, through the speakers or the camera, just remove some screws. Screws that, by the way, do not have strange heads or owners. This increases the durability and useful life of the terminal, since if the battery degrades, it will be enough to remove and change it for another. As before, go.

This is not new, not much. It has been a brand of the company’s house since its inception and other manufacturers, Like Samsung or Applethey already offer homemade repair kits. The problem is that the DIY repairs of the most common terminals is complicated. The mere fact that the rear cover is stuck with glue already means having to use heat, spikes, suction cups and be very careful in the interventions. One thing is that mobiles are repairable, another that anyone can repair them. The key of Fairphone 6, is precisely that meets this second point.

On the other hand, the company has adopted an implementation that CMF (nothing submarine) put on the table with the CMF Phone 1 And that liked it: customization. In the back there are a series of screws that we can use to add accessories, such as a wallet or a grip. It would be interesting for Fairphone, just like CMF, Liberate design in 3D printing repositories so that users could struggle and do crazy things like these.

With regard to the panel, the device rides a panel P-Oced 6.31 -inch LTPO with FullHD+resolution, up to 120 Hz of refreshment rate and a pico brightness of 1,400 nits. To highlight the Gorilla Glass 7I protection and the aforementioned possibility of extracting and exchanging it for a new one in case of breakage.

Updated until 2033

Inside we will find a processor Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 accompanied by eight Gigas of RAM LPDDR5 and 256 GB of storage UFS 3.1. The striking is, however, the slot for microSD cards that, at this point in the film, is a rare avis. This set is fed by a battery of 4,451 mAh (interchangeable) with fast charging of 30W.

The operating system also has its crumb. Fairphone 6 is launched with Android 15 (Stock, without personalized rom or layers) and the firm promises support until 2033, that is, for eight years and with at least seven years of Android updates. It is the most powerful figure in the industry and a declaration of intentions. Now it will be time to wait to see how that promise is fulfilled and, above all, if the components continue to give the size after so many years.

Be that as it may, already expected to see the status of this terminal in eight years, the reality is that it aspires to overcome or equal what the main market brands offer. Fairphone, a European brand that does not compete in far in market share, income and resources in general, wants to match Google and Samsung and overcome a Honor, Xiaomi, Motorola, Oppo and Realme (Let everything be said, they launch many more smartphones after the year).

It is a huge challenge, without a doubt, but very exciting and, above all, much superior to what the European Union asks for. Let us remember that For some days The brands are obliged to offer at least five years of updates, although the regulation does not specify that they are five years of major updates.

We end with the cameras, a more modest, but enough section. Despite what the design could imply, Fairphone 6 only has two rear cameras. The first, a Sony Lytia 700c sensor of 50 megapixels with OIS under an angular lens; The second, a 13 megapixel sensor with EIS under a wide angle lens. The selfies are in the hands of a Samsung KD1 sensor of 32 megapixels.

As it is obvious, this device is not the most powerful and capable of the market or intends. It is not a terminal that has the AI ​​per flag and that moves ‘Genshin Impact’ at 60 fps with Ray-Tracing. Its point is another. Its value proposal is durability and offer the user the possibility of buying cheap spare parts and being able to install them for oneself. It is not a mobile for everyone, but an example of what can be achieved when the premise “made to last” is taken seriously.

Versions and price of Fairphone 6

He Fairphone 6 It can be obtained in a single version of 8/256 GB of capacity and in three colors: white, green and black. Its price is 599 euros.

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