iPhone gaming control pad finally arrives

iControlPad is under development for 2 years and after such long time we will have the chance to hold this device on February 16^th when the company will start shipping the device. It is already available for pre-order.

Beside many controllers iPad will have a clamping system which enables it to hold different sized devices. It is different from previous pre-production models which were only a simple docking connector.

This version uses bluetoth with various bluetoth protocols. It is compatible with iPhone, iPad and plenty of other smartphone brands. In case of some smartphone models you will have to manually readjust the clamps.

Antenna problems with Verizon iPhone 4 ?

After the widely publicized and criticized iPhone 4 antenna issue, Apple has redesigned the antenna on the Verizon iPhone, but the problems seems to persist.

After testing the new Verizon 4 iPhone an iPhone web portal has find out that the new CDMA iPhone has almost the same problems as the regular AT&T GSM iPhone.

They state that the new Verizon iPhone is still loosing significant network signal when hold in the so called death hold position. Iphone’s Wi-Fi signal strength suffers from the same problem in some positions. This can slow down or even completely disable data communications.

Tethered or untethered jailbreak?

When Dev-team released the jailbreak following the holiday season, many users had for the first time to deal with an tethered jailbreak. This has caused much confusion. What is a tethered jailbreak at all? Here is an explanation of what is a tethered jailbreak and how does it compare to untethered jailbreak.

If you are in a big hurry and don’t have time to read the full post, here is a straightforward answer: untethered jailbreak is better for you.

Also you should know, this tethering business has nothing to do with something different with a similar name: internet tethering, which occurs when you connect your laptop to the internet through your iPhone’s 3G network.

Game emulators for iPhone

Despite the fact that you can find incredible number of interesting apps in the iTunes app store, some ground breaking app’s can be found only within Cydia. This comes from the fact that Apple is rigorously checking which app will be accepted in the store. If there is any app which is competing with Apple’s own products it wont make it to the app store at all. Often Cydia app’s are free or at significantly lower price than competing app’s in the iTunes store.

Here are some great games you can find in Cydia.

iPhone modifications and warranty issues

Apple wouldn’t be what it is if it didn’t couple some of the best and some of the worst.

While its hardware, software, product design and overall speaking IT philosophy is groundbreaking it is often combined with the worst kind of command & control worldview. While being much more innovative than the crew from Microsoft, it is also more focused on controlling their business ecosystem.

The worst aspect of this eagerness to control is how the software and the apps are controlled.

Cydia for newcomers

Ever heard your friends talking about Cydia, but wouldn’t dare to ask what it is all about? If your answer is yes, here is our short introduction and explanation.

Cydia is an iPhone software app which manages download and installation of your software packages outside of iTunes store. It will allow you to add repositories (places where you will find apps). Many of repos host free apps. You can easily make your own repo if you ever got that far.

Cydia will work only on jailbroken iPhones. It also includes the Cydia store where you can legally purchase apps from various developers.

iPhone 4 a new journalist tool

Iphone 4 now a standard tool for journalists?

Iphone4 has became a multi-purpose multimedia device capable of taking quality video and photo shoots. It has also a wide array of document writing app’s and high screen resolution. This makes it a perfect mobile office tool for journalist which are always on the move to hunt down the next big story. Because of this, New York Times has decided to equip their complete team of journalists with iPhones.

One of the NYT directors called the iPhone 4 a “game changer”.

Iphone sim card replacement

Did you ever wonder how to change your iPhone sim card?

Apple would like to hide this from you but it is fairly simple to change your sim card. You can use another sim card of your provider or even better, you can change your provider if you jailbreak and unlock your iPhone.

Here is a short guide on how to do it :

The sim card is removable but somewhat hidden. You will need some sharp item to open the sim tray. A paper clip will serve this function good enough.

More Download Links for Greenpois0n

The server of Chronic Dev Team might be possible overloaded these days, so we have set Greenpois0n available on our server as well.

Windows version (windows 7, winXP) - download.

Mac version - download.

Enjoy your Jailbroken iphone 4

Thank you Chronic Dev for this great tool!!!

Unlock Jailbreak for FW 4.2.1 GreenPois0n Released!!!

Finally we have fantastic news for all iPhone and iPad lovers and addicts out there! After a month we have finally received the untethered jailbreak. We had already for about a month the Redsn0w tool at our disposal, which was quite helpful for those who by necessity had to jailbreak with it, but the tethered booting was less than prefect for most of the users.

Again mighty giant Apple is outsmarted and its secrets have been revealed by the experts from the Chronic Dev-team. Their GreenPois0n software tool is now able to break into the iPhone IPSW and enable a nice tethered jailbreak.