![[OC] This knockoff iPhone 12 Pro Max has what appears to be a thin lead bar under the battery.](https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/pictrs/image/aa64ca4a-364d-40c6-9844-3f5c8fea568e.jpeg){kind=link}
The metal is smooth, but not shiny. It is super bendable. As soon as I realized what it was, I stopped handling it and washed my hands.
Lead is heavy, but seems such an odd choice for a weight in a consumer device. It must have been cheaper or even free.
$2k/ton is not that cheap. Granted, it’s cheap enough that it’s not going to be an issue in these quantities, but it’s the same price as the notoriously quite expensive aluminum, and twice what coil steel is worth: https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/hrc-steel
Yeah, but for steel and aluminum you need machinery. Lead can be cut with a butter knife shaped with you hands and melted in an kitchen oven. Perfect for cheap stuff.
not to forget that aluminium is not as dense and in that size it would be too light to use as weight