{"id":739141,"date":"2026-08-15T19:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/739141\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T19:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T19:46:08","slug":"the-fairphone-6-now-has-an-official-launch-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/739141\/","title":{"rendered":"The Fairphone 6+ now has an official launch date"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday a rumor claimed that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/the_fairphone_6_will_have_an_upgraded_chipset_for_slightly_higher_performance_too_leak_shows-news-74118.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fairphone 6+<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/heres_when_the_fairphone_6_is_rumored_to_launch_and_how_much_it_will_cost-news-74163.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">would become official on August 18<\/a>, and today the company has confirmed it. The unveiling will take place at 13:00 CET on that day, which is 12:00 in London and 14:00 in Eastern Europe.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">18.8.2026 | 13:00 CET | tune in on <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2dvBe3IvYQ\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/2dvBe3IvYQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/bxuP3sXLuo\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/bxuP3sXLuo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fairphone Newsroom (@Fairphone) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Fairphone\/status\/2088280078878744890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">August 14, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>According to recent rumors, the upgrades that the Fairphone 6+ will bring over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gsmarena.com\/fairphone_6-13955.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fairphone 6<\/a> launched last year are a newer chipset (the Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 vs. Snapdragon 7s Gen 3), more RAM (12GB vs. 8GB), and a new Cobalt Blue color option.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise the two are apparently identical. Of course we&#8217;ll only know for sure once the Fairphone 6+ is officially unveiled on August 18. The price is rumored to be \u20ac649, which is \u20ac50 more than the Fairphone 6 when it launched and \u20ac100 more than it goes for these days.<\/p>\n<p>Fairphone 6<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Yesterday a rumor claimed that the Fairphone 6+ would become official on August 18, and today the company&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-739141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}