Fairphone 6 review: The most repairable phone alive, now with eight years of updates.
You buy the values, the specs come along.
Fairphone 6 is the only phone you can fully repair on a kitchen table, with a swappable battery and updates promised into 2033 — backed by a genuinely fair supply chain. On raw specs the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 and 30 W charging are ordinary for $649. That gap is the point: this is a phone bought with conscience first, benchmarks second.
01Display
76/10076/100 trails the 81-point cohort average for mid-range phones of 2025.
02Camera
72/10072/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2025.
03Performance
70/10070/100 — right at the average for mid-range phones of 2025.
04Battery
74/10074/100 is one of the weaker battery results among mid-range phones of 2025 — 10 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
05Build
88/100At 88/100 this is one of the strongest build showings among mid-range phones of 2025 — 12 points above the cohort average.
06Value
64/10064/100 is one of the weaker value results among mid-range phones of 2025 — 14 points under the average. Check the rows below before buying for this.
- Eight years of OS updates — the longest in Android.
- Fully DIY-repairable, swappable battery.
- Ethical, fair-labour, recycled-material supply chain.
- Compact 6.31" body in a sea of giants.
- Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 is mid-tier for the $649 price.
- IP55 only.
- 30 W charging is slow.
- You pay a premium for the ethics, not the specs.
How this review is built: every section score, spec row and comparison on this page comes from SpecEagle's tracked catalogue — scores weight measured specs against the 117-phone cohort of mid-range devices released around the same time. We don't publish invented lab anecdotes. Spot an error? .