Because smartphones have typically had both limited storage and connection speeds, they traditionally haven't been as vulnerable to some of the security threats that have long plagued PCs.
But with the advent of super-powered smartphones and 4G mobile networks, this might be changing. Today's high-end smartphones have storage capacities in the 32GB range and processing speeds that go 1GHz or higher. And once 4G technologies such as WiMAX and LTE become more widely available, smartphones will have average connection speeds of 3Gbps or higher, giving them speeds that approach the average U.S. wireline broadband speed.
