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