Dont just view the smartphone as a utilitarian object because i can 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 scripts officiating the tactic and the use various tactics very strong suggestions that the devices are built to break as soon as possible. 1. 4000000000 new smartphones are sold annually. Is the price now digital lifestyle. Barcelona spain you tube influencing young us as come here to report on the latest smartphone trends the 21 year old regularly tests the latest devices and posts his videos on the internet the most important industry sector event of the year is a region issue to be held here today hey hey papes a warm welcome from barcelona where the mobile World Congress was meant to take place. The Worlds Largest mobile technologies trade fair was canceled because of coded 19 but some manufacturers were determined to showcase the new products all 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 a new form is to get paid. If survival like folding devices for example but for 2500. 00 euros only a test will show whether the device can be recommended on the hottest test site. High prices and few new developments to spark that chickies flock to smartphone presentations like this besides Eunice Conyers you choose to influence it to be as dicky is also paying. The lawyers i buy a new smartphone about once a year i bought several since the new 5 g. Devices came out its with a 247 its my alarm clock my i listen to music on a i watch videos on it in the train at work or take notes on up i use it for everything else. For most people here life without a smartphone is inconceivable. That. In his lectures feel exuma and foul explains the impact of digitalization on humans and the environment this sociologist knows that she can use phones computers to people self image. The mission uses of mom is the 3 year we develop a very strong bond with these devices. That theyre incredibly personal. To contain important messages they contain our lists are friends of basically theyre an extension of us by thought this. Filmmakers hide every new smartphone that they bring out turning these devices into months time might stop products. And most of the cost to get it you have to consider how the presentation of these devices are staged at big show we have answers lots of applause for it its only a new smartphone or perhaps saving the world just you bringing out a new smartphone or those of us on this is i find what annoys small people. More and more smartphones of flooding into the market and the. Manufactures 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 adds up and many of these commodities a mind in crisis arrangements for example 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 coal way see 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. I mean at 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. On american. Morning with life with the simple head torches of 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 where your. Its narrow and hot in the pit. Over all of. Us 100 watching. But it was. The men hack at the rock with rudimentary tools and shovel the kobold all into sacks. After just a few minutes the. Cobalt dust. Its highly toxic and can cause serious lung damage without masks breathing becomes more and more difficult. But with little. 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. Its a walmart sure but the Marx Brothers are performing in other 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 cobalt used by mages smartphone makers also come from mines lighting up were finished with Sustainability Reports there are 2 sets in the best pianist 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 and 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. Mand 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. Escapes officiating the talk ticking the there are so many tactics that indicate that the devices are intentionally built to break as soon as possible which 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 or 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 your clear and apple i phone 8 and the Samsung Galaxy s 8 uranus wants to replace the smart phones displays and batteries. Since the samsung device to the manufacturer its. Going to take the i phone to the nearby apple store and asks what these reports would cost. Them im fine with in the form 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 its 214. 00 euro even though you can get the same model new from a starting price of 529 year old apple quote about 41 percent of the sale price to repair a 3 year old smartphone. Father played as an independent Electronics Stores chief is that a viable option for consumers. The longer version of congress if we add it together for the i phone it runs to 168. 00 euros so definitely less than the make your charge but ive also discovered that they dont use any apple parts so i wouldnt do it even though its cheap though it was. 168. 00 euros thats about 32 percent of the sounds price quite a bit cheaper than the manufacturers that without original pass. What about other phone makers the samsung sent off for appears still isnt back almost 2 weeks later and eunice only heard back after getting in touch with samsung does a part 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 one father tired from shop. But finally younus does get the word to the device has been received and hears the cost of a repair is also expensive some 185 years thats about 46 percent of the sales price. But why is it so expensive to fix a smartphone. Felix salmon fowl believes 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 ours is a start for clip the devices are often very firmly glued together and cant be opened actually symbols of quotes where its and these construction methods often make repairs were very very expensive and the messages could be better if we bought a new smartphone sleeve i know its not for him to tell me. One 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. Repairing smartphones provides. For free. Fests just a scope done its our experience the devices get repaired more frequently when people dont have to send their phones away for 4 or 6 weeks. Mentioned hunger you most people spend about half their lives on these devices and if it were easier to switch out of batteries 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 for. There also will shops to teach people how to repair their phones rather than just discard them straight away. The settle that you know its interesting to repair it yourself even if just for the sense of success when you manage their. I must say when you get a good list i thought its the simplest and the best way to save money and i enjoy term almost foxhole. With you and doing it yourself rather than just buying another new phone that would work better if the phone maker is also did their bit. Because im working currently hashed the law well me and 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. Still on the one hand the battery thats often quoted in. Order for clues in the display which is often difficult to replace. 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 advise against amateurs carrying out repairs. No wonder so few mobile phones get fixed. In a base Case Scenario the old devices end up in places like this one the resulting from a ruperts in western germany. Under it is not and hes clearly to be as cool. I know that there are many other discarded devices out there. That doesnt fit 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 of that p. R. Title is data your uncovered. Many old smartphones around the 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 here we have the shredded cellphones you can see the plastic which will be a replacement sure you can also see copper of course theyre also contain gold silver platinum in some cases probably 80 and 10 zinc where nickel. To materials a salvaged in a number of states the recycling process reduces the need for mining in crisis or agents but it is very Energy Intensive and its not possible to recover food for 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 means that you know basically theyre lost at least in terms of the metal value chain thats whats in the include the rare earth elements he said and then you have. Even here they can only become a 70 percent of these valuable commodities and any a fraction of the old smart phones end up in professional recycling. Selectees in the 1st place the majority disappears into peoples couples for their exports and. 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. Devices that arent worth repairing in germany often end up in aquas tito lang for a 3rd bush meant to me. The idea of giving these used phones a 2nd life sounds good at 1st but not all of them can be repaired. Or of im not his name anyway you got it here you know you try to treat it as a i and its on there and the problem is 5050 i can get a solution to it you know im im not going to get into it. I mean. Whats discarded here ends up in and but one of the dirtiest places in the world its residents call it sort of and gomorrah its harm to some of the actors poorest residents they live here in the midst of the trash eking out a living from the waste originates in more affluent countries. And. Everything is taken apart people in a few cents from a semi conductors and copper cables 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 phones 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 so which one of the generates money like aluminum for example it smells it in these very basic facilities. The catch here is insufferable. And the toxic fumes are biting. More than your lunch and. Even children at present to know what to eat after molly is a good get of my life im with. Them. Because. Im paying the fees. The socalled burners have the most dangerous job in a bubble. Theyve been charging devices cables and plugs to get the copper inside. The house is damaged by the noxious fumes. Only one in and it generalizable we do the dirty work here. Everyone cheats us. If i had the chance of another job i would take it. I would cap in the morning all the guest laying down week for the time to get up because all my body has been with. Slack off the map what he wants i just wanted. My body is strong and i cannot go if i am not sure and work alongside the adults here kids like knees 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 we sell it to help support our mom. And the boys and a bit of additional cash to help their families scrape by but this dirty work takes its toll. As professor usually is full bill from the university of ghana can confirm. But children so you can affect your nervous system as the organ system can also affect your Brain Development in terms of kidney is one of the organs that are. Usually. Affected most. But how contaminated is advil blushing and what danger to the people who live here thanks. To the soil sample should give an idea that. Deliberately findings later show that the soil contains toxic hippie metals. And sneak teen 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 organic and inorganic compounds. Card me and they curl a certain length and all of this are highly toxic. Metallic quo terms quite high far far far higher than once recommended by the grid to. The trend of buying a new smartphone every year has fatal consequences for people and their environment here in ghana. You chibi influences like eunice kanya to showcase the latest devices in their videos may combine recommendations and so encourage consumption using the body and its slower 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 rate the consumer goods and tell people which ones are good and which ones arent basic. Youngness can you sees himself more as a product tester than as a Sales Assistant so fine mike is the question is whether his many followers see it that way to. Their least some manufacturers who are trying to make phones more environmentally friendly the german startup shift is among. Its founders and to make their devices last longer than the conventional clones. If something does break the devices like easy to repair. The special thing about our shift for us is there are 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 we can also access the camera if something goes wrong with it and the special thing is that we use click to connect and the whole thing can be assembled like lego pieces that. Shift also plans to make it possible to order spare parts years after purchase however because its possible to unscrew the devices also because of the normal functions and they are also current expensive. To listen to what sort of course are sure to answer a compromise to as manufacturers you always have to focus on a particular selling point and for us this is the fact that our forms can be easily repaired. But we also want our devices to perform well theres no point in having a sustainable device if it doesnt do what customers would normally expect. Prices range from 400. 00 euros for a basic lesson. 800. 00 euros for the top of the range phone thats not exactly cheap but how does the shift phone rate in comparison with its competitors. You tube influence eagerness conure tested the ship 6 enough for a week 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 the farrelly and share my thoughts with you in this video. You know his test of the camera the device a Software Performance and of course he evaluated its design. And then good work of what i really liked about the device was the battery life and the responsive fingerprint sensor you could also increase it Storage Capacity is 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. Escape 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 or tool and it wouldnt appeal to nerds like me who are after borderless designs and thin designs and displays designs on display and to hell often for the use of a shiny and its. A much a smartphone is one possible way of making me industry more sustainable but shift fine sounds like. Behind the market ladens and things align to destroy that way for the forseeable future. So the situation in congo and ghana isnt likely to change anytime soon either and people here will continue to pay the price down throw away consumers in. Them and its a big if you think of smart phones globally they tend to be replaced every 20 months or so that you know how to fix it the most sustainable solution in general for digital devices is to use them for as long as possible so for very. Long lasting phones that can be more easily repaired and a high of recycling enclosure would already go some way towards helping reduce the mountains of waste in guyana and making our use of smart phones significantly more sustainable. Eco india. On this california milk is not the main product. Gets done on. 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