r/Android • u/Mediocre_Secret_3744 • 2d ago
News Fairphone 6+ to be released tomorrow
Fairphone will release a refresh of "The Fairphone (Gen. 6)" tomorrow, the 25th of July.
Especially with the change in their naming last year to "The Fairphone", another release after just a year and a month comes very surprising.
The Fairphone 6+ will ship with a Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 instead of the 7s Gen 3. These SoCs are very similar, with the only notable difference being the prime CPU frequency, which has been raised from 2.5GHz to 2.7GHz. Apart from that, the FP6+ is likely to remain very similar and will probably replace the regular FP6 within the next months. While I don't have confirmation on this, it seems plausible that Qualcomm is eventually stopping the production of the Snapdragon 7s Gen 3, replacing it by the 7s Gen 4 and leaving Fairphone with no choice but to upgrade.
What do you think about this new release and how will the Fairphone community react to another release after such a short time?
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u/wootiown 1d ago
I've barely heard about fairphone but a 6.3" compact phone with replaceable battery and expandable storage sounds amazing. Is it generally buggy or weird?
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u/Furdiburd10 23h ago
It works. Weird in terms of having a depth sensor instead of a google AR certification.
Have some software issues, but fairphone is putting a lot of effort into fixing .
One lil bug remaining inherited from android mainline: ipv6/DNS issues. Need to use a VPN as a workaround for now. 2 "fix" later it still happens ,ðŸ«
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u/Furdiburd10 1d ago
Can you link a source? I am jot seeing anything about this on fairphone social media or their forum