updated 05:49 pm EDT, Wed October 3, 2012 Generally, phones
becoming less toxic Mobile phones are being built using fewer
toxic chemicals than were their predecessors, and Apple's iPhone
4S and iPhone 5, along with many other newer phone models, are
among the least toxic to have been released in more than a
decade. This according to a new report out from iFixit and
HealthyStuff.org. The two sites performed chemical analyses on
36 phones, finding that Apple's two newest models ranked in
among the five least toxic, along with models from Samsung and
Motorola. The analyses was based on X-ray fluorescence
spectrometer readings, which determine the chemical composition
of a material. The researchers scanned each component of a phone
-- case, screen, solder, circuit board, etc -- looking for the
most commonly found hazardous materials, including bromine,
mercury and lead. Phones were then graded on a scale from 0 to
5, with 0 being the least toxic and 5 being the most. They found
that six of the phones scanned -- t