Fairphone has launched its most powerful smartphone yet. The new Fairphone 6 Plus brings a major memory upgrade alongside the company’s familiar focus on repairability and long-term support.
The Fairphone 6 Plus is the first phone from the company to feature 12GB of RAM, paired with Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 platform and Android 16. It also marks an important expansion for Fairphone; the handset is the company’s first smartphone to officially launch in the US.
The phone is available unlocked through Fairphone’s website and Amazon, with support for T-Mobile and AT&T. It costs $649 in the US and £569 in the UK.
The 12GB of RAM is a notable step up for Fairphone and is intended to give the 6 Plus more breathing room when running multiple apps. Meanwhile, Fairphone says its use of DDR5 memory can deliver up to 24% faster app loading and switching. It also enables up to 20% faster multitasking allocation compared with its previous approach.
That extra performance is backed by the Snapdragon 7s Gen 4, a slight upgrade over the 7s Gen 3 on the regular Fairphone 6, along with a 6.31-inch LTPO OLED display and a triple-camera system led by a 50-megapixel Sony Lytia 700C sensor with OIS.
Fairphone hasn’t abandoned the modular design that makes its phones unusual, either. The 6 Plus contains 12 easily replaceable parts, and owners can swap them using just a single screwdriver. The battery is user-replaceable too, with Fairphone claiming close to 53 hours of use from a single charge.
Storage can also be expanded with a microSD card, supporting capacities of up to 2TB. The phone ships with bloatware-free Android 16 and includes a new dedicated Fairphone gallery app for locally stored photos.
Perhaps more importantly for buyers who keep their phones for years, Fairphone is promising a five-year warranty and software updates through 2033. Additionally, the handset has also passed military-standard drop testing for durability.
The 6 Plus arrives in a new Cobalt Blue finish alongside Forest Green and Horizon Black. Fairphone says the new colour reflects its use of fairly mined and recycled materials. Furthermore, the phone contains more than 50% fair or recycled materials by weight.
The company also claims a carbon footprint of around 30kg CO2e per phone. It also says the device remains 100% e-waste neutral in the US.
For Fairphone, the 6 Plus is less about chasing yearly upgrades and more about making a phone that users can realistically keep for years. The combination of 12GB RAM, a replaceable battery, expandable storage and software support through 2033 makes that proposition considerably more convincing.
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