Fairphone CEO: Two new products coming out in 2026

Maybe my dream will come true and they will release a boom microphone add-on for the Fairbuds XL so I can finally have a repairable headset for the office. :grin:

That would be great. As long I cant use it as headset I won’t buy it.

If one of the new “products” is a regional version or new colour that would be one weird choice of words. “New product” implies either a fully new product (second phone, other device they don’t make yet) or at least a functional update of an existing device.

New Fairbuds would be cool since I think the response to the backwards compatible new headphones was very good.

I would be surprised if they branched out to something new like a watch or tablet (isn’t that a horrible market?) but who knows!

I would think that an FP6 for America would (apart from my guess of an additional colour option) also have some minor hardware changes/improvements – which ideally would be compatible with existing FP6 devices. FP6+ might not be used (again) as a product name, but the device name might include some extra moniker after the “FP6”.

It says “new” products. So starting selling an existing product in another country is not a new product. An FP6 + version? A Fairphone tablet? No idea.

All audio products are now on sale. This could suggest that they want to clear stock of the old Fairbuds, perhaps to make way for a new model.

Yes on sale across many retailers. and I was about to buy the in-ear Fairbuds version 2, but now I am unsure, because there will most probably a new model, not knowing what’s new about it.

What were the 2 new products? Have they been announced?

Nope.


Apparently a follow-up:

Source: https://www.facebook.com/Fairphone/posts/pfbid0C7P33K5qizKwD7cy4y6sRYQf5DvCGSoPYVkkGM2gWNtpp3hrA57yad7fqCrZFGUCl

4? something for the fp4 maybe?

Days I guess. Something for the FP4 would be rather a waste of money on my eyes, the phone turns 5.

  • Regarding the number 4, I agree it could be “four more days” (my first thought was the total number of available colour options for the product).
  • There is a thin blue curved line in the picture, probably a horizon – hinting at USA?
  • The two corners of a product in the picture look like the Fairphone 6, so it might not be an all-new thing.

The number 4 is likely elusive to a 4th product category: phone, earbuds, headphones, and now something new. The corners in the image could be of a tablet.

The product in the corners match the design of the Fairphone 6 100%. If you look closely you can see the same line in the device that separates the side panel with the back panel on the FP6.

I think the 4 in this case refers to a 4th colour, since the colour is the one that’s different of the device and is shown throughout the whole photo. Midnight blue perhaps?

4 could indeed refer to “4th of a kind” or “4th line of product” but I’m not sure it applies since they retired one of the FP6 colours so midnight blue won’t be the 4th colour offering. As for 4th line of product, it’s indeed an avenue (even though I wouldn’t love it)
How many accessories packages are there for the back of the FP6 ? do you think it’s more of that?

4… a fourth camera module for the FP6, (+), maybe? :grin:

EDIT: I think some of you are right. The phone in the corners looks blue, so it might be that 4th color for the FP6…

there is a bit of a “hint” (?) towards blue in a previous Instagram post which is not related but does contain the same hashtag

it is a game of tea leaves reading here:)

OK wow, you’re right. Now I’m almost certain they are releasing a blue phone. A bit disappointing

I don’t see any repairable and long term software/hardware support tablet anywhere on the “market”.

Smartphone market was saturated long before Fairphone comes…

I should rephrase then I guess. The tablet market is not active. A few tablets are the mains and they release a new one every few years. There is not much demand for something else. Smartphone market has slowed down as well in recent years. Mostly because there are no radical improvements.