Americans can now buy the Fairphone 6 Plus on a monthly plan through Boost Mobile, rather than paying for it all at once.
Until now, the US version, which launched in August alongside the European one, was sold only outright. Fairphone announced the Boost deal, and Boost Mobile has more than seven million subscribers, a far bigger audience than the company reaches on its own. Pricing and plan terms have not been disclosed. The phone is also still sold directly by Fairphone, in Cobalt Blue, Forest Green and Horizon Black.
The retail price is $649.99, which is steep for a phone with a mid-range Snapdragon 7s Gen 4 chip, 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. The rest of the spec sheet is similarly ordinary: a 6.31-inch 120Hz screen, a 50MP main camera, a 4,415mAh battery and a microSD slot. Fairphone is selling something else, namely 12 user-replaceable parts, a five-year warranty and Android 16 with software support promised through 2033.
That pitch is hard to make at a checkout counter in a market where most people buy phones through carriers and pay in installments. Splitting the cost spreads out the sticker shock, which is presumably the point. Fairphone's CEO, Raymond van Eck, framed it as a break from "planned obsolescence and constant, expensive upgrades." That is the company's own marketing, though the hardware claims behind it are specific and checkable.
The longevity argument is also the best case for a payment plan. A phone with support through 2033 and a five-year warranty is built to outlast whatever term Boost sets, so the monthly payments buy a device the buyer can keep rather than one they will want to replace. Whether the numbers bear that out depends on the price Boost attaches to it.