Amid the customary noise around Apple, Samsung, and Google in recent months, you’d be forgiven for sleeping on the significance of the Fairphone 6.
The sustainability-focused Dutch electronics manufacturer has made a concerted effort to rebrand itself as a serious smartphone player in 2025 (“We’re not uniquely for the person that wants to buy sustainably – we simply have really good products,” Fairphone told us in April), and the Fairphone 6 is the first beneficiary of this newfound focus on quality.
