Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+.
Unscrewed
Fairphone’s CTO explains how and why the Dutch company builds a different kind of smartphone.
You can fully disassemble the Fairphone Gen 6+ in about 20 minutes. Credit: Ryan Whitwam
You can fully disassemble the Fairphone Gen 6+ in about 20 minutes. Credit: Ryan Whitwam
Smartphone longevity didn’t used to matter. In the past, before you could wear out or break a phone, there was always some shiny new thing to buy. Today, we expect our smartphones to go the distance, but they’ve also become less repairable and, in many cases, more fragile. Fairphone, a Dutch smartphone maker that has just entered the US market, thinks about phones differently.
The new $650 Fairphone Gen 6+is designed both for longevity and easy repairability. There are trade-offs to this approach if you’re used to the standard glass and aluminum sandwiches filled with glue, gaskets, and teeny-tiny screws....
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