Making the Connection:
The components of your mobile phone
Fascia
• Plastic casing
• Plastic is developed from oil
Image: www.comparestoreprices.co.uk
Source: http://www.cia.gov/
Ecuador
Saudi Arabia
Russia
Battery
Raw materials:
• Cadmium
• Nickel
• Lithium
Image: www.buy-mobile-phone-batteries.co.uk
Source: http://www.cia.gov/
JapanUSA
Chile
Speaker and microphone
speaker
microphone
Clock battery
Image: www.howstuffworks.com
Source: http://www.cia.gov/
Thailand
China
Circuit board
• Digital to analogue chip• Analogue to digital chip• Amplifier• ROM• Flash Memory• Signal processor• 100s capacitors• ~50,000 transistors• SIM card• Microprocessor
Image: www.howstuffworks.com
Source: http://www.cia.gov/
Japan
TaiwanChina
Malaysia
The metals
Gold Copper
Coltan
Source: http://www.cia.gov/
South AfricaChile
Democratic Republic of Congo
What have gorillas got to do with mobile phones?
• Coltan easy to mine- good wages.
• Farmers quit farming to mine coltan.
• Civil war in DCR- money earned from mining is fuelling war. Claimed 3 million lives.
• Mining coltan in National Parks & killing eastern, lowland gorillas for bushmeat.
• Very few gorillas now remain. • 1 in 5 chance that your mobile
contains DRC coltan.
Image: www.africa-vacations.com and www.rainforestlive.org.uk
Assembly
Images: http://analogik.com/gallery_nokia.asp
Source: http://www.cia.gov/
UK
Finland
China
Mexico
Source: http://www.cia.gov/
Japan
TaiwanChina
Malaysia
UK
Finland
Mexico
ChileSouth Africa
Democratic Republic of CongoEcuador
Thailand
Russia
Saudi Arabia
USA