And theyre prepared to go to extreme lengths to sell them goods officiating the tactic and b. S. I lay use various tactics there are strong suggestions that the devices are built to break as soon as possible and 1400000000 new smartphones are sold annually. Is the price in our digital lifestyle. Barcelona spain you tube influencing young us has 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 of interview is a rich initiation to be held here today to pay papes a warm welcome from barcelona where the mobile World Congress was meant to take place but. The Worlds Largest mobile technologies trade fair was cancelled because of coded name change but some manufacturers were determined to showcase their new products 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 that scott 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 paid. Its a buy like folding devices for example but for 2500. 00 euros only a test will show whether the device can be recommended on the hottest exists like. High prices and a few new developments despite chickies flocked to smartphone presentations like this besides Eunice Conyers you chewed influencer to be his dukie is also. A noise i buy a new smartphone about once a year i bought several since the new 5 g. Devices came out its within 24. 00 sevenths its my alarm clock my i listen to music on and i watch videos on it in the train at work i take notes on up i use it for everything. For most people here life without a smartphone is inconceivable. It is like she is feeling zoom and foul explains the impact of digitalization on humans and the environment this sociologist knows that she knew phones computers to people so image. You miss the hindi films that is the thing we develop a very strong bond with these devices. That theyre incredibly personal. To contain important messages they contain our lists are friends with basically theyre an extension of us by thought this. Filmmakers hide every new smartphone they bring out turning these devices into must have large stock or not. On 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 a lot of applause for it its only a new smartphone thats saving the world just to bring out a new smartphone or those of us on this is im fond of noise small talk. More and more small kinds 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 300 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 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 city in the south of the country. That 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. Are very. Worried. That. Your life will be simple head torches of the only special equipment but 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 so. Far but were going to. Its narrow and hot in the pit in. All of. Us i want to watch it. 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 air is like only a couple just. Its highly toxic and can cause serious lung damage without masks breathing becomes more and more difficult. But with. People. 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. Or a. Gauge of walmart shopper to mix it up with theres a brewery in other pits there are lots of deaths because they dont work safeway bug free what we take care of 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 lines lighting up work 1st with Sustainability Reports there just sets 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 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. Mantra for cobalt is huge because many users replace their cell phones in less than 2 years and feel it soon found says the phone makers are often responsible for that. Risk its officiating the talk taking years there are so many 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 or coffee. Is that really true its an issue that also preoccupies influence a youngish cannot. Enjoy the 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 age and the Samsung Galaxy s 8 uranus was replaced as smartphones displays and batteries. Since the sound some devices to the manufacturers. Take the i phone to the nearby apple store and asks what these for pets would cost. Them im finding the 4 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 i get 240. 00 new even though you can get the same model new from a stance in price 529 year olds apple quotes about 41 percent of the sale price to repair a 3 year old son. Father pierce an independent Electronics Stores chief is that a viable option for consumers. The action 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 i also discovered that they dont use any apple parts so i wouldnt do it even though its cheap though it is not. 168. 00 euros thats about 32 percent of the sales price quite a bit cheaper than the manufacturers that without a regional power. What about other phone makers the samsung sent off for appears still isnt back almost 2 weeks later and eunice i only heard back after getting in touch with samsung as a plot 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 tired from shop. But finally younus does get the word to the device has been received and here 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 smart phone. Found believes the smart phone giants have made a very deliberate choice when it comes to their pricing policy and their manufacturing methods. Figured out isnt of ours is your stock for clipped the devices are often very firmly glued together and cant be opened her lips and on the quad for its and these construction methods often make repairs were very very expensive. And the messages would be better if we bought a new smartphone sleeve im not a smartphone 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. As for repairing smartphones and improvise the instructions for free. Stand fests just a slip up youre 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 victus. Demised 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 workshops 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 think you should just eyeball so its the simplest and the best way to save money and i enjoy term. With you doing it yourself rather than just buying another new phone that would look better if the phone maker is also did their bit. Thats im walking on the hash. 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. On the one hand the battery thats often code in. Order for it to good use and the display which is often difficult to replace. For sure its a Great Service so why use that Global Market leader 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 keen about phones get fixed. In a base Case Scenario the old devices end up in places like this one there is something from a ruthless in western germany. On dreams not and hes clearly 2 views coom now that there are many other discarded devices out there. That are just in 5 c. A tone although its there we have 4 times so maybe 25230000 faults. But thats not a lot on if you. Might have to say given the number of smart phones that are sold each year that only a fraction and up here and walk type is de 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 know 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 and of course they also contain gold silver platinum in some cases probably a. T. M. And tenzing clear nickel nickel. To materials a salvaged in a number of steps the recycling process reduces the need for mining in crisis regions 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. 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 havent. Even here they can only recover a 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 who they exported. 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. Like. 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. Our plan not is there any way you got it working on it if youre trying to trade it basically i am out there someday and the problem is 5050 i can get a solution to it you know on my nuggets and you can do it. Whats discarded here ends up in and bump one of the dirtiest prices in the world its residents call it sort of and gomorrah its home to some of the actors poorest residents that live here in the midst of the trash eking out a living from the erased originates in more affluent countries. Everything is taken apart people and a few cents from the semiconductors and competent. I will say this is the last resting place for a lot of technological junk from industrialized nations. My all the Circuit Boards and conductors are much in demand for this they contain valuable commodities like going to 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 the more. There are broken phones everywhere the old battery is polluted environment because there arent the facilities to recycle. The people salvaged wanted to generate money like aluminum for example its membership in these very basic facilities. The heat here is insufferable. And the toxic fumes are biting. More of your lunch and. Even children i present to you know where to look after money you. Dont get off my i promise. Them. Because. Im paying the actual fees. The socalled burners have the most dangerous job. Theyve been charging devices cables and plugs to get the copper in sunlight. And. Their health is damaged by the noxious fumes. When i saw one in and its you know i said look i mean we do the dirty work here. Everyone. Its us. If i had the chance of another job i would take it. I would come 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 in my points on i get up in the morning and my body is strong and i cannot go if i am not sure and 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. Bin and we sell it to help support our mom. And the boys own a bit of additional cash to help their families scrape by but this does she work takes its toll. As professor usually has full bill from the university of ghana i can confirm. But children who can affect your nervous system as the organ system can also affect your Brain Development in terms of kidney is one of the. Usual. Very affected moods. Just how contamination is and both 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. On snake team but in particular extremely high levels of light. And professor phobia tells us that these substances also accumulate in the bodies of the workers. Among the we were. Both the organics in organic compounds. Caught me and they curl a certain length and all of this are highly toxic. Metallic quot terms they are quite high. High of them was throwing their body to read through. The trend of buying a new smartphone every year has fatal consequences for people and their environment here in ghana. You choose the influences like eunice kanya to showcase the latest devices in need videos making buying recommendations and so encourage consumption. To body and. 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 that 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. Instead were the ones who write the consumer goods and tell people which ones are good and which ones arent basic vision the youngness canute sees himself more as a product tester and as this sounds assistant to find my kids 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 startups shift is among. Its founders and to make their devices last longer than conventional followings. Is something does during the devices are easy to make a. Special thing about our shift from just their 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. Shift also plans to make it possible to order spay parts years after purchase however because its possible to unscrew the devices also because part of the neural firings and they are also clients expensive. To listen to what youre full of course or shift runs 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 theres no point in having a sustainable device if it doesnt do what customers would normally expect. Prices range from 400. 00 euros per basically version. 800. 00 euros for the top of the range gun thats not exactly cheap but how does the sheet foam raise in comparison with its competitors. You should be influencing the owners can you tested the shit 6 enough for a week it came out in 2018 but its still the latest model. A liter hey peeps this is the shift to 6 and 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 it verily and share my thoughts with you in this video. The owners tested the camera the device the Software Performance and of course he evaluated its design. What i really liked about the device was the battery life and the responsive fingerprint sensor you could also increase it Storage Capacity what i didnt like was the cameras performance in low light situations and the video quality but also the software isnt up to date and performance is a bit patchy eventually. So is the modular smartphone from germany a realistic alternative. Escape for us that you can buy a better smart phones for t