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4G handsets grabbed 35 percent of the smartphone market in the fourth quarter, up from just 6 percent a year earlier, NPD said yesterday. Among the various 4G flavors, HSPA+ was the most prevalent, representing 22 percent of all smartphone sales. Deployed by AT&T and T-Mobile, HSPA+ got a huge boost in the fourth quarter from the iPhone 4S, which …

Telstra and HTC announced the delivery of a major firmware update for the HTC Velocity 4G yesterday, an update that will advance the phone’s firmware from Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) to Android 4.0.3 (Ice Cream Sandwich). We installed the update last night, and have been genuinely impressed with the improvement in overall performance. Web browsing in particular receives a noticeable boost, …