Measuring radiation levels with your iPhone? There's not an app for that. Not officially at least.
After repeated rejections from the Apple App Store, Israeli developer Tawkon has posted instructions for hacking your iPhone and going through Cydia to download its radiation-detection app.
"[When] Steve Jobs personally closed the front door with a curt 2-word email stating: 'No Interest' we were left with no alternative but to climb through the Cydia window to let iPhone users see and lower their exposure to cellphone radiation," Tawkon CEO Gil Friedlander wrote in a blog post.
According to Tawkon, the app measures cellular radiation emissions of your phone. It also points to areas in your home or office where a phone call exposes you to higher radiation levels.
After an early rejection from Apple last spring, Tawkon debuted in May through BlackBerry's App World. In September it was posted on Google's Android Market, which doesn't have a pre-approval process.
Perhaps Jobs is still smarting from Tawkon's involvemnet in "Antennagate" last summer. TechCrunch discovered a video from Tawkon showing how the iPhone's radiation level spikes when held in a death grip.
See the alleged e-mail from Jobs below.
