I bet Cloud White will sell like hot cakes. Has some vintage iPod design appeal.
I just wonder how cloud white will look after some weeks and months of tear and wear. 
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The thing is you are to be able to easily replace it #creativefun
On the side ? Thatās weird.
Considering this is around how it looks likeā¦ I think this is just a placeholder render. (yes, it looks to be continuing at the two end. I just wanted to show the shape better)
Or a sideways ultra thin flip phone.
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Assuming it is the new phone and they have just overexposed it to hide the rest, it could be something like this. But itās too compressed to tell with any certainty
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The shape looks weirdly bulky.
If they want to tout customisability, perhaps apart from the 2 part back cover thereās some optional add-on(s) for the back? Perhaps just replacing the lower back cover, and the upper back cover can stay in place?
more (all?)Infos (in german )
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Received an eMail from Fairphone this morning claiming that FP has āworked hard on a new innovative product that we will present to you soonā, with this teaser image attached.
It will be presented to the public at a live event on the 25th of June, 2025, at 11:00 CEST
What could this possibly be?
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Moved your post here, see aboveā¦
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Ah, whoops, didnāt see this thread as I wasnāt expecting this to be the FP6 but rather a completely different device, the shape of that teaser definitely doesnāt look like any phone Iāve ever seen.
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Whereās the overdue live-action movie when Fairphone finally delivers
the CAPTAIN FUTURE phone? 
(On a more serious note ā¦ ) Always a relief for me when I see the mentioning of the microSDXC card slot (btw SDUC cards still do not exist, do they?). I might be panicking, but itās always something I worry about when I read things like the āhard decisionsā in How to design a Fairphone 101. It seems like itās not shaved off for now.
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using a 2 year old SoC is a bit worrying when it comes to a device thatās designed for longevity 
I get that itās cheaper than the most recent midrange, but it still means 2 years shorter support than the potential duration.
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I hope itās not FP6, I recently bought FP5 and the update support is not over yet.
If it really has to be a new phone I hope they have thought of an upgrade, for example an installable module as happened with FP3 and FP3+.
In donāt understand this line of thinking. What is it about a newly released Fairphone 6 (potentially) that changes anything about your Fairphone 5? The specs are still the same as when you bought it, the stated software support remains the same.
Granted, I can understand if the feeling is one of just missing out on the latest phone, but the attitude I sense from people is that this was on Fairphone to fix/consider.
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Well thereās like 90% chance itāll be FP6 
Their previous releases has ~2 year gap.
Upgrade-able module will be almost impossible, even companies with unlimited money will have a very hard time to pull that off 
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Sounds like the processor and the main camera are the same as the Nothing Phone 3A Pro. everything else is a bit worse. But then everything is modular and you can exchange broken parts which you cannot do on the nothing phone.
The backcover options sound like the CMF phone - also released by Nothing Phone.
I wonder - does that mean that those workers who create these processors for Snapdragon get a higher pay if the processor they are working on goes into Fairphone 6 rather than a Nothing Phone 3A Pro? Or does it simply mean that Fairphone spent resources in investigating how those Snapdragon workers who work on these processors are being paid, and that the result then applies to all those working on this particular (Snapdragon 7s gen 3) processor, no matter which phone it ends up in.
What concerns me particularly is that some cameras have been downgraded (apparently). I get that we are close to peak camera performance and that there isnāt that much difference . But precisely that is why I find it such an odd choice to (again) go for such subpar cameras for the non-main cameras - apparently even a downgrade in comparison to the Fairphone 5, which was outdated when it was released two years ago. Just add the periscope camera to the Fairphone 6 and the choice between Nothing Phone 3A Pro and the Fairphone will be an easy one. Or at least explain why the zoom camera of the Nothing Phone 3A Pro is not worth adding to the Fairphone. Now you force us, again, into either getting an expensive subpar camera and save the planet, or get a current camera and not save the Earth.
Nobody force you. Nobody puts a gun to your head. And again, itās not just save the Earth. Fairphone, be fair, be ethical. Itās about ecology of course, but itās more than that, itās about ethical, social. You always talk about photo. If itās a problem for you, buy a digital camera or take an other smartphone, but not a Nothing, at least one of these smartphones, so you can be consistent.
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I really donāt get all this elaborated, but uneducated camera talk.
Smartphone cameras are bad, all of them. The sensors are so tiny, it is just impossible to create something good.
Every megapixel added, worsens the problem of not getting enough light for a bright picture.
In the end, the sensor of my Nikon D750 is about 14 times as big as the sensor of the FP5.
To get seemingly decent pictures, you need a magic wand called software to brighten the images up, then reduce noise, you have to blur and resharpen and what not.
A picture made with a smartphone is not a photo, but a good guess.
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