The Fairphone 6 is extensively anticipated to get an official unveiling within the subsequent week however the leadup to the repairable smartphone’s launch has been leakier than a foul faucet. In a brand new report from , purported photographs of the Fairphone 6 present that it’ll characteristic two again covers: one for the primary physique protecting the cameras, and a decrease panel that may be simply eliminated by loosening a number of seen screws.
Doing so grants entry to the battery, which WinFuture notes will not be glued down, although swapping it out would require you to take away a number of extra screws. The again plates can be found in three completely different colours – black inexperienced and white – which you’re free to combine and match with to provide the telephone a extra customized look.
This being a Fairphone product, the battery unsurprisingly isn’t the one detachable element. If you recognize what you’re doing, you too can exchange the 50- and 13-megapixel essential cameras and the 32–megapixel front-facing digital camera, in addition to the show, speaker and USB-C charging port.
When it comes to specs, the Fairphone 6 is pretty unremarkable, however you’d count on it to be on the rumored €550 (round $630) value level it’ll reportedly retail at. In addition to the aforementioned trio of lenses, it’ll reportedly have a 6.31-inch 120Hz show, 256GB of inner storage (expandable by way of a MicroSDXC slot), 8GB of RAM and a 4,415mAh battery. Beneath the hood is a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3, so we’re firmly in mid-range territory. The Fairphone 6’s anticipated IP55 ranking for water and mud resistance means it’ll comfortably stand up to a little bit of rain, however seemingly received’t take effectively to a dunk within the bathtub.
Of its predecessor, the , launched (although not within the US) in 2023, Engadget’s Daniel Cooper mentioned: “When you’re seeking to choose up a mid-range handset that you could preserve going for twice so long as some other telephone in the marketplace, and also you need to do a bit of fine within the course of, that is in all probability the telephone for you. It’s not usually the view from the ethical excessive floor is this comfy.”
