Sony Ericsson is first off the blocks with a 4G mobile device and the future of mobile technology is, well…ugly.

The Sony Ericsson Berta apparently reaches speeds of over 300mbs using LTE technology that follows after 3G or turbo 3G, and is itself sometimes referred to as super-3G.

Name wars aside the new technology will allow mobile video and sophisticated game play as well many multimedia facilities for mobile professionals.

So what do you make of the future of mobile multimedia?

Allowing compression into mpeg4 format and up to 15fps video, the iPhone video recorder is bound to cause a stir amongst Apple fanboys.

Using the IVR users can compress an hours recording into a 60MB file and email, playback or download the file to their computer.

Budding Apple directors can download a free trial from here.

Combining a fuel cell, Li-polymer secondary battery and control circuit into on fuel-cell system, Sony Corp’s new prototype may usher in a new world of ultra-efficient mobile devices.

The active-fuel system utilizes a pump, methanol and hybrid output to help deal with rising power demands of todays devices.

While details of the output of the device has yet to be revealed it has at least hinted that 3W is possible and suggested efficiency such that a device can enjoy 14 hours of 1seg movie can be played with 10mL of methanol.

Is this the beginning of a new wave of superfast, superpowerful portable devices? Can we say good riddance to the dreaded N95 and iPhone recharging and enjoy our phones? Here’s hoping.