These are the materials from which your phone is made

Metal, glass, ceramics, plastic ... We can find smartphones made of very different materials. In fact, its components can be a reason to buy, and that is that the design of mobile phones has gained great importance over the past few years.

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However, do you know what these materials are already in the devices we use every day? To find out, many studies have been conducted to understand the elements that make up our phones already.

According to the latest data from Statista, collected after examining the most commonly used materials in smartphones between 2007 and 2017, there are ten elements used mainly when building mobile devices. Far from what many might think, glass is not one of them.

From top to bottom, the materials most commonly used when manufacturing smartphones are aluminium, copper, plastic, cobalt, tungsten, silver, neodymium, gold, indium and palladium. The first three add approximately 50 grams of the total weight of the materials used to build our mobile phones.

It is remarkable, above all, that there has been no material used for years in the construction of all kinds of electronic devices such as silicon. Above all, because a recent study conducted by Plymouth University concluded that this was the most used material when building smartphones. In the video below these lines, you can take a look at the evolution of the study, and the methods used by the researchers to determine the proportion of items used.

On the other hand, it is worth noting that these ratios correspond to the data collected until 2017, and they are probably slightly different in recent years with the arrival of folding cell phones such as the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 2. In addition, everything indicates that in the not-too-distant future we can begin to see non-traditional materials in the phone industry such as wood.

These are just some of the materials and components that can be found inside your device. Obviously there are many other things that are used for very specific things in precise proportions.

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