Fairphone’s most repairable phone yet is now available in the US at $650

Fairphone is selling directly in the United States for the first time, with the $650 Gen 6+ and its twelve user-replaceable parts. The Dutch company is entering a market with no equivalent of the EU repairability rules that took effect last year.

Fairphone is selling in the United States directly for the first time. The Gen 6+ costs $650, comes apart with one screwdriver, and arrives from a Dutch company built around rules the American market does not have.

The route in used to run through somebody else. Americans could previously get a Fairphone only through Murena, which shipped it with the degoogled /e/OS at a higher price.

The hardware is midrange on purpose. A Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 drives a 6.31in LTPO OLED that swings from 10Hz to 120Hz and peaks at 1,400 nits, with 256GB of storage and a microSD slot behind it.

One number stands out given the timing. Memory has gone from 8GB to 12GB during a global shortage that has been pushing phone prices up across the industry.

The battery comes out, and that costs something. Fairphone rates the 4,415 mAh cell for 30W charging, and the phone reaches only IP55, because a back designed to be removed cannot seal like one that is glued shut.

Twelve parts are user-replaceable. A single T5 torx driver handles all of them, from an $8 SIM tray to a $90 OLED screen assembly, and around half the phone is made from recycled materials, an approach the company has spent years defending as viable.

Software support runs to seven years. Android 16 ships on the device, and the launch colour is called Cobalt Blue, which is a reference to the mining behind most phone batteries rather than a paint swatch.

Europe has since written much of this into law. Ecodesign and energy labelling rules that took effect in June 2025 require key spare parts within five to ten working days for seven years after a model is discontinued, five years of operating system updates, and batteries that hold 80% of capacity after 800 cycles.

Phones sold in the EU also carry a repairability grade from A to E on the energy label. Nothing comparable exists in the United States, so Fairphone is now selling a regulatory philosophy into a market that has not adopted it.

That is the interesting part of a midrange phone. Europe has been arguing for years about whether it can produce a smartphone of consequence, and its clearest answer is a device whose main claim is that it lasts, now working on T-Mobile and AT&T with an Amazon listing on the way.