The back cover

A skin, and the only part you ever see.

The cover is only a skin, and it is the one part you ever see. It is glass, aluminium or plastic, depending on the phone. Glass won on expensive phones for an invisible reason: radio waves pass through it, while a metal shell blocks them. It protects a battery that likes neither knocks nor heat. Its thread, the one about glass, is waiting its turn. When it opens, it will start in a sand quarry.