I don't understand these articles. There are TONS of people very happily using 4G phones right now. Sorry iOS users, you're just late to the party. My friends mocked me when I was excited about the 4G in the Galaxy Nexus I was buying. I bought the extended battery (still the thinnest phone I've seen save for my mom's RAZR) and it easily lasts me an abusive full day of use.
Combine that with the fact that many people work desk jobs or spend 20 minutes in the car at a time, it's not unreasonable at all to think that a 4G phone can last plenty of time.
I mean, sorry for the iOS comment, but the 4G/battery naysayers seem to always be coming from the iPhone angle and, my Galaxy Nexus gets only slightly worse battery life than my father's 3G iPhone and he only checks his email on it.
I've got a 4G phone. When I go out to the bars on the weekend, it NEVER NEVER NEVER makes it until the end of the night. Which, oddly enough, happens to be exactly when I'm most likely to need it to find friends and regroup from the chaos. (Even when I turn off data to try and stretch it out, it'll die..) My phone also gets buggy, and seems to flake out at the exact movement I actually need to text someone. I'm not buying another 4G/android phone again for a long time, I"m switching to a 3G iPhone for my next phone, hands down.
Combine that with the fact that many people work desk jobs or spend 20 minutes in the car at a time, it's not unreasonable at all to think that a 4G phone can last plenty of time.
I mean, sorry for the iOS comment, but the 4G/battery naysayers seem to always be coming from the iPhone angle and, my Galaxy Nexus gets only slightly worse battery life than my father's 3G iPhone and he only checks his email on it.