The Fairphone 6 is broadly 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 WinFuture, purported photographs of the Fairphone 6 present that it’ll function two again covers: one for the primary physique overlaying the cameras, and a decrease panel that may be simply eliminated by loosening a couple of seen screws.
Doing so grants entry to the battery, which WinFuture notes just isn’t glued down, although swapping it out would require you to take away a couple of extra screws. The again plates can be found in three totally different colours – black inexperienced and white – which you’re free to combine and match with to present the telephone a extra customized look.
This being a Fairphone product, the battery unsurprisingly isn’t the one detachable part. If you recognize what you’re doing, you can too substitute the 50- and 13-megapixel predominant cameras and the 32–megapixel front-facing digicam, 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 anticipate it to be on the rumored €550 (round $630) worth 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 inside storage (expandable through a MicroSDXC slot), 8GB of RAM and a 4,415mAh battery. Underneath 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 dirt resistance means it’ll comfortably stand up to a little bit of rain, however doubtless gained’t take properly to a dunk within the bathtub.
Of its predecessor, the Fairphone 5, 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 maintain going for twice so long as every other telephone available on the market, 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 snug."
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