This is about time for Samsung Galaxy Note to be available for pre-order for US, and if you have been waiting to bring this device home. Your wish will come true. Because now Best Buy have listed this 5.3 inch screen device on their sites under pre-order status.

And Best Buy have already announced for schedule shipment of The Samsung Galaxy Note after February, 19. And sets a minimum requirement for data service starting at $15/month.

You can visit Best Buy for pre-order.

Verizon gave software update to HTC Rezound today, it’s been long enough since the handset placed its foot in store November last year. This update will take your current software version to 2.01.605.11.

If you have been expecting improvements added to your handset, like having a better audio quality for phone calls, resolved signal strength, improved device stability and also resolved issue with Mobile Hotspot data stalling while multi users are connected, then this update is designed solely to deal with those issues.

Well you must be liking this update and it’s naturally for you to install the software right away. And looks like the software is already available, you can manually check via your device’s settings.

If you don’t own HTC Rezound yet, and loving the handset, Amazon has a good offer for you, only $79.99 you can get it.

Late is better than never, informing a good news is no exception, right? Therefore today I would like to share about the news to those who don’t know yet — I very much doubt about it — that Absinthe receives update again, now the untethered jailbreak tool is in version 0.3.

Nothing big offered on this update except minor changes to fix the potential bug on Win32, more stable and cosmetic changes toward the JB tool. Anyway, frankly there is no need to upgrade to this version as the developer of this tool says nothing really new, and no need it re-apply the jb, if you are already jailbroken.

Wait up, of course there is something special comes with this update, not to add more features toward Mac OS or Windows, but Absinthe for Linux is finally released and bound with the update, that’s why I placed Linux and Absinthe picture on the first paragraph to make you notice.

Now Linux users, can taste the sweetness of untethered jailbreak now on their A5 based phone.

These are the download links based on your existing OS, get it!

• Download Absinthe v0.3 for Mac OS X.
• Download Absinthe v0.3 for Windows.
• Download Absinthe v0.3 for Linux.

Do you live in America and at least 18 year old? If you have met these two requirements than ask yourself do I like Android ICS phone? If you do, then go grab your twitter account or make one if you don’t have it and then participate in the current Verizon contest that gives away Samsung Galaxy Nexus phone for lucky ones, who know you are one of them.

The main contest rule is simply owning a Twitter account and then be a Verizon follower, that will make you qualified to be a lucky winner among other thousands or more (perhaps) others people.

FYI currently the handset is sold by Verizon for $299.99 on contract. Not bad deal if you can get it for free. Interested? You can read the contest’s rules here.

Via PhAndroid.

Verizon wireless finally announced the price of the most awaited handset for this month, DROID RAZR™ MAXX™ plus its availability on January, 26 which is tomorrow, so guys or precisely Android Maniac this is it, get your $299.99 for signing two-year contract to get this impossibly thin smartphone!

This Gingerbread 2.3.5 based phone is powered with a magnificent dual-core 1.2 GHZ CPU, with the processor at this size is certainly be loved to those who use to browse the internet via phone. You are promised to have 21 hours talk time in one single charge. All goodies you find on the original DROID RAZR will be its features too.

Additional Droid Maxx specifications:

•  Android™ 2.3.5 Gingerbread, can be upgraded to Android™ 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich
• 3300 mAh battery
• 8-megapixel rear-facing camera with 1080p HD video capture and image stabilization technology for crisp and clear videos
• Front-facing HD camera for video chat over 4G LTE, 3G or Wi-Fi
• 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot capable – customers can share 4G LTE speed with up to eight Wi-Fi-enabled devices
• Remote wipe, pin lock and government-grade encryption for email, calendar and contacts, as well as voice and video chat conferencing
• 32 GB memory – 16 GB on-board memory and 16 GB microSD™ card pre-installed (actual formatted capacity is less)

Via Verizon Wireless.

India just got a new guest, the Optimus Net Dual SIM P698, a smartphone who was officially announced at December last year, by LG.

The handset now featured and offered in the country online shopping sites, in LetsBuy and FlipKart.

LetsBuy set the price of this Gingerbread phone at 10,990 INR with 12 months of Warranty, while Flipkart offers it with selling price at 10,990 INR.

LG Optimus Net Dual Sim-P698 (Titanium) takes Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) as its OS on 800 MHZ Qualcomm CPU, capacitive touchscreen 3.2 Inches HVGA, 512 MB of RAM, a Digital ZOom camera of 3MP Af, 32 GB expandable memory.

As for connectivity Titanum offers GPRS, 3G, EGE, Wi-fi, Bluetooth 3.0, USB 2.0 HS. For entertainment it supports MP4, H.263 for video player, also MP3 Player. Plus GPS navigation.

PlanetBeing just surprised us with the news that we have been expecting, which is the availability of download Absinthe for Windows. Yes you read it right, after about two days we, as Windows users, only can see the Mac OS spoiled with the jailbreak tool.

But that doesn’t mean the Pod2G dream team didn’t think about us, they did, therefore we finally receive the Absinthe version for Windows because their kindness. Right guys? So chill out now as you will immediately download it. Anyway Absinthe has reached the version 0.2 this also applies for Mac OS version.

The Absinthe v0.2 is bringing the wanted fixes like no reboot after activating VPN and also blank or white icons on springboard found on the previous version.

Easy and quick fix for White icon apps on Springboard or Homescreen, is simply launch Cydia and then select any free apps there, install the package and then run it. Hope that solves the problem. And also try Absinthe white screen.

Anyway here are the download links for Absinthe v0.2 for both Windows and Mac OS plus the mirrors link, enjoy!

• Download Absinthe 0.1.2-2 for Mac OS X. Or Mirror
• Download Absinthe v0.2 for Windows. Or Mirror.

Corona Injector Command-Line Interface (CLI) for A5 device has been updated recently bringing support for Windows PC, however using CLI takes advanced skill, but if you are able to, then you can jailbreak your A5 devices from your Windows PC.

CLI is originally designed for MAC OS X, but now it’s supporting Windows, however most of Windows users, me included, are expecting the iPhone Dev team or Chronic Dev team to release the Absinthe for Windows version.

But apparently we need to wait for sometimes, and takes this CLI a temporarily solution, and help the iPhone Dev team debug specific issues from our try.

Version 0.4.3 adds support for Windows users. It also makes the “-j” jailbreak option much more functional See the README.txt for usage.

Want to give it a try? Download from this link. Or more advanced option, can be download here.

These are fixes for A5 Untethered jailbreak bug, the bug is Absinthe white screen, and many users who have tried to install Absinthe reported that they find Absinthe white screen. Did you face the bug too while using Absinthe? If that’s so you can try the following fix. Hope it can fix the problem.

How to fix Absinthe white screen.

Fix 1.

1. Disable PIN lock on your phone and delete email account.
2. Rerun Absinthe jailbreak.
3. Then set VPN toggle to ON.

Fix 2

1. Close Absinthe via multitasking, turn passcode off.
2. Open Absinthe app again, close it again via multitasking, then turn VPN On, close notification, then open Absinthe again.
3. iPhone will be black suddenly with loading spinner on screen.

Via Absinthe white screen page.

Download Greenpois0n Absinthe 0.1.2-2 now. The A5 jailbreak utility, Absinthe, finally released today and brought joy to jailbreak community. Have you tried the newest version, Absinthe 0.1.2-2? Or you couldn’t because you are using Windows or Linux? Yes, you still can’t get your hand to this untethered jailbreak for iPhone 4s or iPad 2, because currently it only supports Mac OS.

But of course the developers of Absinthe will soon release for both Windows or Linux version, until then just wait and be patient. They must be working on to release the Absinthe version for your OS.

Anyway if you are using Mac OS, you can download Absinthe 0.1.2-2 from the following link.

Update: For Windows already released, visit the Windows Absinthe version to download it.

Download Absinthe 0.1.2-2 for Mac OS.