Transcript Mobile phone geographies (ppt

Making the Connection:
The components of your mobile
phone
Fascia
• Plastic casing
• Plastic is
developed from oil
Image: www.comparestoreprices.co.uk
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Ecuador
Source: http://www.cia.gov/
Battery
Raw materials:
• Cadmium
• Nickel
• Lithium
Image: www.buy-mobile-phone-batteries.co.uk
USA
Japan
Chile
Source: http://www.cia.gov/
Speaker and microphone
microphone
speaker
Clock battery
Image: www.howstuffworks.com
China
Thailand
Source: http://www.cia.gov/
Circuit board
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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
Japan
China
Taiwan
Malaysia
Source: http://www.cia.gov/
The metals
Gold
Copper
Coltan
Democratic Republic of Congo
Chile
South Africa
Source: http://www.cia.gov/
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
UK
Finland
China
Mexico
Source: http://www.cia.gov/
UK
Finland
Russia
Japan
USA
China
Taiwan
Thailand
Mexico
Saudi Arabia
Malaysia
Ecuador
Democratic Republic of Congo
Chile
South Africa
Source: http://www.cia.gov/