Hearing news like this (Qualcomm breaking GHz barrier for smart phones) is encouraging. Desktop browser based apps are becoming main stream in our every day work flow, and pushing beyond our previous expectations of what applications can do inside the browser. We use mapping and office applications in our browser and receive a fairly consistent experience across different platforms.. and that is where we’ll be heading in the future with mobile application development, too. It’s only a matter of time that we have Opera, Firefox, Safari and IE working on our smart phones, with additional plug-ins to access our devices’ rich native functions, rather than completely different development platforms for each device.