If you’ve been eyeing Fairphone’s repairable phones from overseas and wishing you could just buy one here, today’s your day. The Fairphone 6+ has officially launched in the US, selling unlocked through Fairphone‘s own website and Amazon for $649.99, and it’s built to work right out of the box on T-Mobile’s network.
For anyone who hasn’t followed Fairphone before, the Dutch company has built its whole reputation around the opposite of what most phone makers do: instead of gluing everything shut and hoping you buy a new phone every two years, Fairphone designs its hardware to be taken apart with basic tools.
The outgoing model scored a perfect 10 out of 10 on iFixit’s repairability scale, and the 6+ keeps that same philosophy, with Fairphone saying most repairs only require a single Torx T5 screwdriver. Replacement parts are sold directly and transparently, ranging from $7.99 for a SIM tray up to $89.99 for a full display module, so a cracked screen doesn’t have to mean a new phone or a $200 repair bill from a third party.
Under the hood, the Fairphone 6+ is more capable than you might expect from a company known mostly for sustainability. It runs a Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 chipset paired with 12GB of RAM, the most RAM Fairphone has ever put in a phone, along with 256GB of UFS 3.1 storage and microSD expansion if you need more. The display is a 6.31-inch LTPO AMOLED panel running at 120Hz, and on the camera side you get a 50MP main sensor paired with a 13MP ultrawide. It ships on Android 16 with a software update commitment that Fairphone says extends through 2032, an unusually long runway even by flagship standards.
The T-Mobile compatibility is the part that matters most for anyone reading this site. Since the phone launches unlocked and supports both AT&T and T-Mobile’s networks, T-Mobile customers, along with Metro, Mint, and Ultra subscribers riding the same network, should be able to pop in a SIM and get going without needing a special carrier variant. That’s a meaningful shift from Fairphone’s earlier generations, which were sold almost exclusively in Europe and required more legwork to get running properly on US bands.
It’s still a niche pitch. At $649.99, the Fairphone 6+ isn’t chasing flagship camera or gaming benchmarks, it’s chasing longevity and repairability instead. But for T-Mobile customers who’ve wanted a phone they can actually fix themselves instead of replacing every couple of years, this is the most accessible Fairphone has ever been in the US.
Source: Fairphone