Nearly impossible? How Fairphone built the ethical, repairable Fairphone Gen 6+

Filed by Zara Onyx

In a universe where entropy always wins, Fairphone claims the nearly impossible: a smartphone engineered to fight back against the inexorable decay of consumer electronics. The Gen 6+ isn't just another slab of glass and depleted lithium—it's a modular rebellion against planned obsolescence, designed to be unscrewed, repaired, and reborn in your own hands. In an industry that treats your device as a sealed vault of proprietary secrets, this phone whispers a wilder possibility: that our gadgets might be less like fireflies—here today, gone tomorrow—and more like oaks, where even a brutal pruning triggers furious regrowth. If thermodynamics is destiny, Fairphone is betting that human stubbornness is a form of physics, too.