Chinese handset maker ZTE hasn’t really stirred upmuch hype on North American shores but in Asia, they’re all the rage.

What you see above is one of their handsets they recently put up on display at the Wireless Japan convention. In addition toWindows Mobile devices, they also have a Linux powered one. The RAISE and XIANG are the ones running Windows Mobile and will feature 5MP and 3.2MP cameras and will use HSPA over the Wo netork.

The D820, on the other hand, is the Linux-touting device and will feature WiFi, CDMA, GPS and a 2MP camera. No word on worldwide availability but if I had to guess, from the looks of this, there are definitely some American consumers who would take interest in these thing.

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All Nokia N97 owners should know that Nokia has rolled out a new firmware update. Version 11.0.021 is available and you can get it over the air or through Nokia’s Software Updater. The new firmware brings on quite a few changes and fixes:

• USB detection error fix
• PC does not detect N97 or USB charging connection not detected
• Widget
• Home screen online/offline widget crash fix
• Fix for “Alphabetical and Number input are mixed in facebook until end key is pressed
• Widget UI improvement – New facebook widget fixes a problem of Home Screen background visible on soft-key area
• Browser fixes to improve widgets stability.
• MfE related fixes
• Partial fix for Messaging/calendar entry lost
• Mail for exchange calendar entry synchronization error fix
• UI transition error fixes (Portrait <-> landscape transition, there is a home screen corruption.)
• UI transition (Slowness and bad effects)
• Slow Touch UI response
• Picture of the device lock appears half of the screen when transitioning the UI sometimes
• Landscape: in some cases the soft buttons on touch (right hand) show the Home Screen in background (install maps.google.com)
• Photos thumbnail performance and stability improvements
• Device performance deteriorates when lots of content in the device – especially photos
• Partial fix no display backlight illumination when unlocking lock-key – CAP Genius reported already
• New version of Accueweather to improve the “Connection error” situation
• Device reset when browsing with high speed packet access (for Malaysia)
• “Browser soft key UI doesn’t work after putting Chinese character with qwerty keyboard”
• Java fixes (TCK, Pre-install app disappearing, *#7370#*)
• Operator fixes (CMCC, Hutchson and Telefonica, Vodafone)
• Ovi store client now embedded in the core image
What say you folks? Enough changes for you?

Golfers need all the help they can get when they are on the tee and now they can use the iPhone to improve their game and make accurate calculations when it comes to strokes in their games.

The new app is the Golfshot: Golf GPSrangefinder for the iPhone 3G and 3G S. Among the features of this new app is the TruePoint positioning which allows golfers to touch any point on a golf hole to receive distances to and from that point.

Features:

• Aerial images of golf courses worldwide
• Exclusive TruePoint positioning to view distances to and from any point on the course
• Accurate distances to greens, bunkers, water hazards, layups, and more
• Customized layup distances tailored to a golfer’s ideal clubs and distances

The Golfshot app for the iPhone is now available at the Apple App Store for $29.99

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