Ethics-focused cellphone makers Fairphone and Murena have unveiled their newest collaboration: the Murena Fairphone (Gen 6), a smartphone that pairs repairable {hardware} with privacy-focused software program.
The discharge coincides with the launch of the Fairphone 6, which runs on Android. The Murena version swaps Google’s ecosystem for /e/OS, an open-source working system designed to minimise information assortment.
The brand new system builds on the muse laid by the Murena Fairphone 5, which promised a 10-year lifespan and a better bar for sustainable electronics.
The Gen 6 mannequin introduces a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 processor, providing superior efficiency to the earlier chip, Qualcomm’s QCM6490. The brand new mannequin comes with an identical specced triple 50MP twin digicam system. Its battery, although, is smaller and lasts longer. It’s additionally fitted with more durable Gorilla Glass 7i to guard the LCD show. General, the brand new model is 9% lighter than earlier than.
As with the earlier mannequin, customers can change particular person elements utilizing only a screwdriver. The variety of elements you’ll be able to chop and alter has elevated from 10 to 12, together with the display, USB-C port, and audio system. The smartphone comes with a five-year guarantee, however the corporations nonetheless hedge their bets that the system will final 10 years or extra.
Netherlands-based Fairphone focuses on the environmental and social prices of {hardware} by sourcing conflict-free supplies and constructing its gadgets to final so long as doable. In the meantime, France’s Murena builds working methods and smartphones — considered one of which we examined for ourselves — that provide a extra personal different to Apple or Android.
Murena’s “deGoogled” /e/OS strips out Google providers and trackers, changing them with its personal apps for e mail, calendar, and cloud storage. A current 3.0 software program replace added new privateness instruments, end-to-end encryption, and enhanced parental controls, the corporate mentioned.
This marks the fourth time the 2 corporations have partnered, relationship again to the Fairphone 3 in 2020 — a mannequin that Murena nonetheless helps with software program updates.
“We’re happy with our collaboration with Murena,” mentioned Fairphone CEO Raymond van Eck. “Collectively, we’re giving individuals a cellphone they’ll really be ok with utilizing — inside and outside.”
The Murena Fairphone (Gen 6) is out there from as we speak within the UK, EU, and several other different European markets by way of Murena.com at a beginning worth of €649. US clients can pre-order now, with deliveries beginning in August.
