iPhone 4 Lifecycle

By: Khaled Alakhond

Chang Geng
Matt Altemose
Thomas McInerney
 Research and Product
Development

•Stainless Steel Band:

- Patented by Apple
- Improved the hardness of
the stainless steel
- Cost-effective
- Five times stronger than
standard steel
 Research and Product
Development
•Engineered Glass:
-Two glossy panels of
aluminosilicate glass
-Same type of glass
used in the
windshields of
helicopters and high-
speed trains
-20 times stiffer, 30
times harder than
plastic
-Recyclable
 Research and Product
Development

• Sensors:
-Accelerometer
-Three-axis gyro
-GPS
-Ambient Light Sensor
 Research and Product
Development
•Software:
-iOS4
-Multitasking
-Game Center
-App Store
-Face Time
 Manufacturing

•factories
Assembled in Foxconn
located in China
•iPhone
Foxconn manufacture an
4 every 1.5 seconds
 Manufacturing
•Glass:
- Same type of glass used in the
windshields of helicopters and high-
speed trains
- Chemically strengthened to be 20
times stiffer and 30 times harder than
plastic
- The glass is ultradurable, scratch
resistant
- Recyclable

•Stainless Steel:
- Regular stainless steel if formed by
fusing chromium and nickel into an
alloy with the steel
- Then it’s placed in a superheated salt
bath to absorb the nitride
- This results in a coating 15 microns
thick
- Hardness is increased by a typical
Vickers Hardness rating of 140
 Packaging

•Majority of packaging
made from post-consumer
recycled fiberboard and
biobased materials
 Sales, Distribution and Transportation

•Shipped from
manufacturer, Foxconn,
from China
•Distributed from China to
all countries officially
selling the iPhone 4
•AT&T, Verizon, Best Buy
•Pre-orders weeks ahead
•1.5 million devices sold on
first day
 Consumer Use

•Apps
•SDK
•Face Time
•Social Networking
•Music/iTunes
•Camera
•GPS
•iBooks
 Final Disposition
• PVC-free handset

• PVC-free headphones

• PVC-free USB cable

• Bromine-free printed circuit boards

• Mercury-free LCD display

• Arsenic-free display glass

• Hard to dismantle, thus hard to

recycle