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- Fairphone CEO Raymond van Eck has teased two new Fairphone products
- A new smartphone, potentially the Fairphone 7, will likely be among that number
- Fairphone recently confirmed plans to enter the US market
Fairphone CEO Raymond van Eck has teased two upcoming Fairphone products in an exclusive statement provided to TechRadar.
"We’re working on two new products that the whole Fairphone team is incredibly proud of,” van Eck told us over email. “I can't give away the surprises right now — where's the fun in that? — but I promise they’re going to really push the envelope on what people expect from modular and sustainable tech, and TechRadar readers will be some of the first to know!"
At the same time, the Fairphone chief also shared a LinkedIn post featuring YouTuber Zack Nelson (aka JerryRigEverything), in which Nelson writes, “Finally! It’s about freakin’ time. I’ve been waiting.”
The Fairphone 6 was officially announced in June last year, so it figures that van Eck’s tease relates to the company’s next sustainability-focused smartphone. However, Fairphone has so far released a new model every two years — the Fairphone 5 arrived in 2023, the Fairphone 4 in 2021, and so on — so there’s no guarantee that this upcoming device will be the Fairphone 7, nor even that it’ll be a smartphone at all.
The nature of the second product in van Eck’s tease is even harder to predict. Fairphone routinely launches audio products to sit alongside its smartphones, but the latest edition of its Fairphone Fairbuds XL over-ears launched in December 2025, which writes off the possibility of an imminent successor. The company’s wireless earbuds, the Fairphone Fairbuds, launched in April 2024, so a new pair of those in 2026 makes more sense.
Perhaps Fairphone is preparing to enter an entirely new product category. It hasn’t yet released a sustainability-focused tablet, and Nelson’s excitement — “Finally! It’s about freakin’ time” — does suggest that something truly new is on the horizon from the Dutch manufacturer. Could this be the Fairtablet?
Mind you, Fairphone’s expansion into the US market — where Nelson is based — also falls into the category of ‘something truly new’. At present, it is possible to pick up a Fairphone 6 in the US, but only in a de-Googled, T-Mobile-locked configuration, as exclusively sold by Murena for $899. US buyers, therefore, have particular reason to be excited about any new Fairphone smartphone.
In any case, it’s been a good few years for Fairphone. While undoubtedly still a small fish in a big pond, the company achieved record growth in 2025, and the Fairphone 6 — which improved on its predecessor with a better display, a faster chipset, and a more attractive design — was well received by buyers and reviewers (us included).
Here’s hoping Fairphone can continue its upward trajectory with whatever two products it's cooking up for 2026.
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