could you please specify "a powerfull laser"? i very much dought that you can damage anything on your phone with standard class 1 and 2 lasers, which are more or less eyesafe.
you would have to tightly focus a class 2 laser and even then the power would still too be low.
a class 3 laserwould do the trick but i wonder what your friend is doing with a class 3 laser, its not that you would get them for a few hundred bucks at wallmart.
anyways, i ld say anything above 10TW is a powerfull laser...