A utilitarian object that if i could get really enthusiastic about design a good display guys done every year phone makers flood the market with new models and theyre prepared to go to extreme lengths to sell them goods officiating the tactic and b. S. I like the use various tactics there are strong suggestions that the devices are built to break as soon as possible. 1. 4000000000 new smartphones are sold annually book which is the price of now digital miles style. Barcelona spain you tube influencing jonass come here to report on the latest smartphone trends the 21 year old regularly test the latest devices and posts his videos on the internet the most important industry sector is going to be here is a rich initiation to be held here today hey tapes a warm welcome from barcelona where the mobile World Congress was meant to take place but. The Worlds Largest mobile technology is trying to say was canceled because of coded 19 but some manufacturers were determined to showcase their new products on the same. Despite the risks of getting infected the tech fans crowded around the latest devices yet major innovations are increasingly few and far between according to eunice. Is it starts and i increasingly advise people against buying a new device each year because the differences just arent so great because manufacturers think out new forms to get people. Its a by like folding devices for example but for 2500. 00 euros only a test will show whether the device can be recommended on the hottest new tests like. High prices and a few new developments despite that stickies flock to smartphone presentations like this besides eunice can use you chewed influencer to abuse dukie is also. A noise i buy a new smartphone about once a year i bought several since the new hard to devices came out its within 247 its my alarm clock my i listen to music on of i watch videos on it in the train at work or take notes on it i use it for everything else. For most people here life without a smartphone is inconceivable. In his lectures field exuma and foul explains the impact to digitalize action on humans and the environment the sociologist knows that she can use phones computers to people self image. In the sums up is the 3 year we develop a very strong bond with these devices. That theyre incredibly personal as they contain important messages they contain our lists are friends of basically theyre an extension of us a bite at the. Phone makers hide every new smartphone they bring out turning these devices into must time my stop products. The most of the talking because you have to consider how the presentation of these devices are staged and big show your answers lots of applause for it its only a new smartphone theyre not saving the world just you bringing out a new smartphone or those of us on this is i find what the noise small talk. More and more smartphones of flooding into the market and the. Manufacturers tactics are having dramatic consequences. On average a cell phone contained 16 grams of copper 6 grams of cobalt 3 tenths of a gram of silver and 3 hundreds of a gram of gold amongst other things that might not sound like a lot but it sure. And many of these commodities a mind in crisis arrangements for example the cobalt that is used in smartphone batteries. Almost 2 thirds of the worlds cobalt comes from one single country the democratic republic of congo. Cobalt is mine here in the town of conway seat in the south of the country. But the people here have nothing to show for the smartphone boom theres no running water. No sewage system. No Waste Disposal collection. And yet the locals are trying to in a bit from the smartphone hype manuel and his friends dig for cobalt each day in a minute town. All over. The world. Wherever you like but the simple head torches are the only special equipment that they have to perform their dangerous jobs. Barefooted and without a rope they descend 45 meters deep into the. Zone. One false step could mean certain death. For were your words. Its narrow and hot in the pit. Over all of. Us i want to watch. There was. The man hack at the rock with rudimentary tools and shovel the kobold all into sacks. After just a few minutes the air is like only a cobalt dust. Its highly toxic and can cause serious lung damage without masks breathing becomes more and more difficult. But with little. Help. Its a dirty job and without as our high tech smartphones wouldnt exist. The stones contain an 8 percent cobalt these men risk their lives every day for the production of mobile phone batteries. For. Your age of walmart sure but the Marx Brothers are for in another pits there are lots of deaths because they dont work safeway but what we take care what about nothing has ever happened here but we got here. Its back breaking work that supports our digital lifestyle does the cobol used by mages smart phone makers also come from minds like they use up refers to it Sustainability Reports they are to search in the best p. R. Speak were proud to be recognized as a worldwide leader in the responsible sourcing of minerals in our products were committed to one day sourcing 100 percent recycled on renewable materials we envision a future where our devices are made with materials that follow a circular supply chain model using only recycled and renewable sources eliminating our reliance on mining. Apple doesnt explicitly rule out the possibility that current i phones might contain cobalt from the type of pits we have seen the. For cobalt is huge because many users replace their cell phones in less than 2 years and feel its human found says the phone makers are often responsible for that. Risk its officiating to talk to somebody tactics that indicate that the devices are intentionally built to break as soon as possible for example when the battery no longer works. Or often its a complete write off and youre kind of forced to buy a new smartphone earthshine noise smart phones a coffee. Is that really true its an issue that also preoccupies influencing young is can you not. Hanoi to pay peeps im eunice any of you whove had a broken smartphone have asked yourselves this question is it worth getting it repaired or should i buy a new one i have 2 broken devices here and ill give you some answers in this video youre clearly an apple i phone and the Samsung Galaxy s 8 uranus was replaced smartphones displays and batteries. Since the samsung device to the manufacturer was. Going to take the i phone to the nearby apple store and ask for these for would cost. Them im finding before i was told that they couldnt replace the shattered display without replacing the battery i dont personally think its worth spending 214 euros on such an old ice so i think really its 214 you. Know you can get the same model new from a starting price of 529. 00 euros apple quotes about 41 percent of the sale price to repair a 3 year old smartphone. Out appears an independent Electronics Stores chief is that a viable option for consumers. The rest of congress if we add it together for the i phone it runs to 168. 00 euros so definitely less than the make a charge but ive also discovered that they dont use any apple parts so i wouldnt do it even though its cheaper its not finished. 168. 00 euros thats about 52 percent of the sales price quite a bit cheaper than the manufacturers that without original parts. What about other phone makers the samsung sent off for appears still isnt back almost 2 weeks later and units only heard back after getting in touch with samsung does apply bottom Customer Support was very friendly and said id receive a quote only thing is i havent received anything and thats after such a long wait and father touch on shop. But finally youngness does get the word that the device has been received and here the cost of the repair is also expensive some 185. 00 euros thats about 46 percent of the sales price. But why is it so expensive to fix a smartphone. Feel it soon found lose the smartphone giants have made a very deliberate choice when it comes to their pricing policy and their manufacturing methods. To give their consent of us is the start for clipped the devices are often very firmly glued together and cant be open to enjoy. And these construction methods often make repairs were very very expensive and the messages could be better if we bought a new smartphone once you got annoyed smartphone 23000000. 1 company has built its Business Model around the long waits and expensive repairs of the tech giants i fixit sells specialized tools and replacement part. As for repairing smartphones he provides the instructions for free. Stern fests just to scoop up your im done hoist its our experience but devices get repaired more frequently when people dont have to send their phones away for 4 or 6 weeks the home that is. Demise mentioned most people spend about half their lives on these devices and if it were easier to switch out a battery it would make it more likely that people kept their smartphones for a bit longer and maybe for 4 rather than just 2 years and thats what these are. Theyre also wood chips to teach people how to repair their phones rather than just discard them straight away. The saddle that you know its interesting to repair it yourself even if just for the sense of success when you manage. I must say when you get kicked it just i feel so its the simplest and the best way to save money and i enjoy your mouth off. With you and doing it yourself rather than just buying another new phone line that would look better if the phone maker is also did their bit. That someone who currently has. Finally i know the manufacturers could help a lot of they made it easier to replace the 2 components that most frequently tend to break or give up the ghost guys i still on the one hand the battery thats often quoted him. Or differently is in the display which is often difficult to replace. I for sure its a Great Service so why use that Global Market leader samsung issued the statement its important that the repairs are carried out by specialists who dispose of or recycle the old components and replace them with new original parts thats the only way of ensuring the performance and long life of those devices in the future we had vies against amateurs carrying out repairs. No wonder so few mobile phones get fixed. In a base Case Scenario the only devices end up in places like this one the resulting from a ruthless in western germany. Andres noted and hes clearly to be as cool now that there are many other discarded devices out there. She doesnt see it on all the ins here we have 4 times so maybe 25230000 phones. But thats not a lot on if you. Have to say given the number of smart phones that are sold each year that only a fraction and up here and tide is there your. Many old smartphones arriva not disposed of correctly or they languish unused for years and cupboards in peoples homes. As well as plastic they contain valuable metals that could be recycled here. Ya mean when you get there we have the shredded cellphones you can see the plastic which will be a replacement sure you can also see copper and of course theyre also contain gold silver platinum in some cases probably to human genes in clinical. Materials a salvaged in a number of states the recycling process reduces the need for mining in crisis regions but it is very Energy Intensive and its not possible to recover 2 of the component parts. Also i know will be a telephone but we can recover about 70 percent of what goes into a smartphone. You know their materials or elements which is what were talking about here that we cant sell which. Right and you know basically theyre lost at least in terms of the medal value chain and they include the rare earth elements of the settlement you have. Even here they can only recover 70 percent of these valuable commodities and only a fraction of all smartphones end up in professional recycling facilities in the 1st place the majority disappears into peoples couples with it at school gyms. For example to akron the capital of ghana this west african country is regarded as a Success Story with its High Economic growth and expanding middle class cellphones are a status symbol here. But. Devices that arent worth repairing in germany often end up in actress tito lang from referred to schmidt to me. The idea of giving these used phones a 2nd life sounds good at 1st but not all of them can be repaired. In our plan not is there any way you gonna get in on it if youre trying to korea basically i am out there somewhere and the problem is 5050 i can get a solution to it you know im im not going to say you can do it. Whats a scottish here ends up in and bill plushy one of the dirtiest places in the world its residents call it sort of and gomorrah its home to some of the actors poorest residents they live here in the midst of the trash eking out a living from the e. U. Wasted originates in more affluent countries. And. Everything is taking a pound of people in a few cents from a semi conductors and company. Abels this is the last resting place for a lot of technological junk from industrialized nations. On the Circuit Boards and conductors are much in demand for this they contain valuable commodities like gold silver and copper. Im in the phone business Circuit Boards storage cards i sell that to people who need something for inside the phone i throw away the things i cant sell like the old batteries i want. There are broken phones everywhere the old batteries pollute the environment because there arent the facilities to recycle. The people salvaged one of the generates money like aluminum for example its melted in these very basic facilities. The heat here is insufferable. And the toxic fumes are biting. More than your lunch and. Even children i present to you know what to eat after molly it got dark out of my i promise. Them. Because. Im burned out from a few years. Of the socalled burners have the most dangerous job in a bowl blush theyve been charging devices cables and plugs to get the copper inside. Their health is damaged by the noxious fumes. When i saw one in and its you know was that we do the dirty work here. Everyones. Its us. If i had the chance of another job i would take it. I would go up in the morning always just lying down with for the time to get out because all my body has been with. This whack off the map what he wants i get up in the morning and i have all your strength and i cannot go to the fire children work alongside the adults here kids like needs to and cousy who are only 10 and 13 years old with a magnet in bare hands they collect small pieces of metal from the toxic remains of the trash. And when we sell it to help support our mom. The boys own a bit of additional cash to help their families scrape by but this does he work takes its toll. As professor usually is full bill from the university of ghana i can confirm. But children who cannot find your level system as the organ system can also affect your Brain Development in terms of kidney is one of the. Very affected moods. But how contamination is eyeball blushing and what danger to the people who live here face. The soil sample should give an idea that. Deliberately findings later show that the soil contains toxic hippie metals. Ass nick team but into teaching at extremely high levels of late. And professor phobia tells us that these substances also accumulate in the bodies of the workers. And among the e. U. Which were. Both the organics in organic compounds like. Cod me and make oil a sun lake and all of this are highly toxic. Metallic quo terms quite high far far far higher than what is throwing their body to reach. The trend of buying a new smartphone every year has fatal consequences for people and their environment here in ghana. You cheap influences like units can your to showcase the latest devices in a p. D. F. And make buying recommendations and so encourage consumption. To body and you see a lot of fun yet i think each one of us who consume something doesnt think as far as what happens to a product when it reaches the end of its life of course what were doing is in essence promoting consumption of fun but we are at least not the one simply holding up the articles to the can. In ads instead were the ones who write the consumer goods and tell people which ones are good and which ones arent basic vision the young as kanya sees himself more as a product tester and as a Sales Assistant to phone makers the question is whether his many followers see it that way to. There at least some manufacturers who are trying to make funds more environmentally friendly the german startup shift is among. Its founders and to make their devices last longer than the conventional loans. If something does break the devices like easy to make a. Special thing about our shift for us is there a modular structure the parts that tend to wear out faster start the easiest to replace i can simply open the back of the phone and change the battery in just a few seconds and when i do the screws here i can remove and replace the entire display and we can also access the camera if something goes wrong with it and the special thing is that we use a click to connect critics and the whole thing can be assembled like lego. Shift also plans to make it possible to order parts years after purchase however because its possible to unscrew the devices and also because of the normal phones and theyll also clear and expensive. To listen to all sorts of of course our shift phones are a compromise to us as manufacturers you always have to focus on a particular selling point and for us this is the fact that our phones can be easily repaired. But we also want our devices to perform well there is no point in having a sustainable device if it doesnt do what customers would normally expect. Its. Prices range from 400 years for the basic version. 800 euros for the top of the range fine thats not exactly cheek but how does the she phone raise in comparison with its competitors. You should be influencing the owners can you tested the ship 6 enough for a wait it came out in 2018 but its still the latest model. A lighter hey peeps this is the shift 6 am a smartphone developed in germany is it a realistic alternative to more conventional smartphones and if so who might it appeal to you ive tested at farrelly and share my thoughts with you in this video to. The owners tested the camera the device a Software Performance and of course he evaluated its design. The thing im good what i really liked about the device was the battery life and the responsive fingerprint sensor you can also increase its Storage Capacity what i didnt like was the cameras performance in low light situations and the video quality also the software isnt up to date and performance is a bit patchy of infinitely. So is the marginal smartphone from germany a realistic alternative. A script for us good you can buy a better smart phones for that money but theyre not sustainable nor are they trying to be in this particular case youre paying about 150 to 200 euros more for a modular design i think its a realistic alternative for anyone prepared to pay that and just sees a smartphone as an everyday object a tool and it wouldnt appeal to nerds like me who are up to borderless designs on thin designs and displays designs on displays and how often for the use of the shiny analysts. A much a smartphone is one possible way of making the industry more sustainable it shifts fine sounds figures legs. Found behind the market ladens and things aligned he distorted that way for the forseeable future. About what it does so the situation in congo and guyana isnt likely to change anytime soon either and people here will continue to pay the price down throwaway consumers and. Them and its a big if you think of smart phones its like globally they tend to be replaced every 20 months or so before that you know how to fix it lose on the most sustainable solution in general for digital devices is to use them for as long as possible before then. Long lasting phones that can be more easily repaired and a hybrid cycle enclosure would already go some way to woods helping reduce the mountains of waste in guyana and making our use of smart phones significantly more sustainable. Place. Kicker. Region force of nature. Elena baltacha. Dortmund striker hit the ground running. Can the secret to his success be found in his homeland. We took a look around norway to find out. 30 minutes on d w. This is deja vu news live from berlin the president ial campaign in the u. S. Becomes a showdown over protests and violence. The city of to no show rocked by on rush since a Police Shooting of a black man is tensed ahead of a visit by President Trump his democratic rival for president accuses them of fanning the odds. That french president mccall is back in lebanon calling for sweeping reforms to tackle