{"id":38818,"date":"2025-07-04T19:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/38818\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T19:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T19:17:09","slug":"fairphone-6-gets-a-10-10-on-repairability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/38818\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairphone 6 gets a 10\/10 on repairability"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new Fairphone 6<\/a> is smaller and more modular than older models in the series, but it\u2019s just as repairable. The phone picked up a perfect score in iFixit\u2019s teardown test<\/a>, despite no longer offering tool-free battery replacements.<\/p>\n

It helps that the only tool you do need \u2014 throughout the phone \u2014 is a T5 Torx screwdriver, and only seven screws sit between you and a battery swap. Fairphone itself has shown you can get from shutdown to reboot with a new cell in just two minutes<\/a>, so it\u2019s still a simple swap. The company says that the screws are required for the slimmer soft-pouch battery.<\/p>\n

The only glue throughout is found on the phone\u2019s mainboard, which is just about the only repair Fairphone doesn\u2019t recommend you make yourself: almost everything else, from the USB-C port to the individual camera sensors, can be replaced with minimal effort. Replacement parts will be available from Fairphone and iFixit, and the phone\u2019s replaceable backplate also enables a line of swappable accessories similar to those found on the CMF Phone Pro 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n

iFixit also rated the phone highly for its IP55 rating \u2014 not the best around, but impressive for a phone sealed with screws rather than glue \u2014 and for the company\u2019s longterm support. Fairphone is guaranteeing seven years of Android OS updates and eight years of security patches, with a five-year warranty and a loyalty program that rewards you for hanging onto your phone and repairing it.<\/p>\n

Despite the high score, iFixit acknowledges that you do compromise on specs by opting for the Fairphone 6. Its dual rear camera is fairly basic, and the Qualcomm Snapdragon 7S Gen 3 chipset is no powerhouse. Even the USB port is limited to sluggish USB 2.0, though the 6.3-inch 10-120Hz LTPO OLED display is more impressive.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first Fairphone to fare so well. Every model since the Fairphone 2<\/a> has received a 10\/10 in iFixit\u2019s teardown tests, a score that no other phone has ever managed. The Fairphone 6 is available now in Europe for \u20ac599 (around $705), from Fairphone and other retailers. It costs considerably more in the US, at $899, where it\u2019s only available from Murena<\/a> and ships running \/e\/OS, Murena\u2019s privacy-focused and de-Googled take on Android. It\u2019s available to preorder now, and ships in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new Fairphone 6 is smaller and more modular than older models in the series, but it\u2019s just…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":38819,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[611,50,242,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-38818","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mobile","8":"tag-mobile","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-tech","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114796576273734176","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}