Cost of 2mm for the ability to easily repair, sounds like a fair trade to me.
BTW, I think the looks of the FP6 are outstanding. Didn’t expect that, thought it would be an FP5 with better hardware.
They did add the need for a screwdriver to change the battery, but that’s probably better. That way it doesn’t explode into phone-cover-battery if you drop it. The down side is you can’t carry an extra battery and pop it in there real quick. Though people can pretty much always find a way to charge a phone so an easily swap-able battery may be somewhat redundant.
Didn’t see any IP rating, but the higher the better. Maybe the screw-on back bumps that up a tick. Ideally you want an IP68 rating, but I don’t think I’ve seen a repairable phone with a rating that high. It’s only the makers of non-user servicable phones that achieve a rating that high.
So they would then have to stock differently coloured screws? (It might not be so obvious from this picture, but the screws of the green version are not green either, at least in other pictures.)
They’ll probably declare them a statement and talking point to counter such sentiments and be done with it, and all for the better.
Fairphone 3 has: 158 x 71.8 x 9.9 mm
Fairphone 4 has: 162 x 75.5 x 10.5 mm
Fairphone 5 has: 161.6 x 75.8 x 9.6 mm
Fairphone 6 has: 156.5 x 73.3 x 9,6 mm