Is 4g actually much faster?
This video pretty much speaks for itself:
The data speeds achieved by 4G will change the game in world of mobile web. With the inevitable saturation of smart phones and tablets in society, mobile computing is going to become just computing. As broadband internet allowed the advent of web 2.0 on desktops and laptops, 4G will herald a similar epoch of mobile computing.
The mobile processor race is already well underway. Smart phones and tablets have enough processing power to carry out the tasks that have been traditionally left for personal computers. Now couple this with data speeds achieved with 4G the gap that separates our traditional devices is rapidly narrowing. 4G is an exciting time for mobile web sites as we can start to move away from the limitations we set around our mobile designs. Mobile sites are always made to be fast. Now, even the desktop site is going to be fast. Mobile sites will of course, still focus on touch interaction and ease of task completion. However, our access of media-rich content will increase.
Android and Windows are the first platforms to see 4G, with Apple undoubtedly waiting for the release of the iPhone 5.
