The Fairphone 6 Plus is the midrange phone we desperately needed

September 6, 2026 Allison Johnson

Fairphone 6 Plus showing modular back panels
Repairability rules.

The Fairphone 6 Plus feels like an extremely average midrange Android phone and I couldn't be more thrilled.

The mission has always been admirable. Fairphone seeks out ethically sourced materials and offers a high degree of repairability for its devices. But the phones themselves required a lot of sacrifices, like putting up with underpowered processors and bad cameras, in order to embrace the sustainability mission. The latest generations of Fairphone have inched toward closing that gap, and the 6 Plus achieves two huge milestones: It feels very much like using a middling Android phone, and it's actually on sale in the US.

The 6 Plus is a …

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