PSA: Greenpois0n2.com Is A Fake – Please Do Not Use!

It was recently brought to my attention by a comment in my last jailbreak post that there is a greenpois0n2 website floating around boasting the untethered 5.0/5.01 jailbreak of iPhone 3GS – the 4S and both iPads. This is an easy scam to fall for and we have no clue what the download will provide.

But please, DO NOT download and install this. This is entirely a fake and isn’t an actual Chronic Dev release. You can search jailbreak at Gadgetsteria and find tons of posts that will give actual Twitter usernames of some of the devs on both Chronic Dev Team as well as the iPhone Dev Team that you can follow for release updates.

So again, please do not install or pass this site around as legit. We have a tweet out to @MuscleNerd, @pod2g and @posixninja on what they know of the site.

Nth Time’s A Charm: Apple Sends Out Notices Warning Of iTunes Match Wipe Ahead Of Launch (Again).

It appears Apple is giving this iTunes Match thing another go. Emails are now circulating to Apple developers warning that they will wipe iTunes Match accounts tomorrow, November 12th, in preparation for the service’s (now delayed) launch.

Mozilla Releases FireFox 9 Beta For Mac, Claims “New Look” To Match Lion.

Mozilla has officially let loose Firefox 9 beta just a few days after pushing out Firefox 8 into the world as part of their newer rapid release cycle. One of the biggest features for consumers comes by way of a “new” look that “better integrates with OS X Lion”.

Look at the picture above and see if you notice anything different. As far as we can tell, the icons on the toolbar on FireFox 9 are a tad more grayed out than that of Firefox 8. Nothing groundbreaking here.

Looks aside, developers are supposedly in for a treat with features such as “Do Not Track” Javascript protection, Chunked XHR support, and Type Inference to name a few.

Interested parties can grab the latest Firefox 9 beta right over here. Let us know if you spot anything else, feature or UI-wise.

Apple Begins Selling Unlocked iPhone 4Ses Today!

Remember when we stayed up very very late and happened to take that first screenshot of the factory unlocked iPhone 4Ses ‘coming soon’ section on Apple’s website? Well, we surely don’t – until today. Apple has finally made ordering the unlocked version of it’s new Jesus line of phones available today.

There isn’t an iPhone unlock as of yet for the iPhone 4S via a jailbreak, so for those of you that want to rock your iPhone on T-Mobile or whichever GSM carrier you want, this is the only option. There aren’t many GSM providers in the US, but for those of you that are not stuck State Side, you’ll have way more options.

Hop over to Apple’s website and go through the normal purchasing of an iPhone, and instead of choosing a carrier, click the little ‘Get the iPhone Contract Free’ link and you’ll be ready to go! The 16GB will run you a cool $649 and the 32GB and 64GB will cost you $749 and $849 respectively.

Who has been waiting for the factory unlocked version straight from Apple? Any International readers stoked?

How Is iOS 5.0.1 Treating Your Battery?

iPhone owners: Many of you have probably upgraded to iOS 5.0.1 already, especially if you were having atrocious battery drain issues on 5.0. The update was pushed out mainly to fix the aforementioned battery woes, though included a an apparently healthy dose of bug & security fixes too. But those don’t concern us too much at the moment. What we want to know: How is your battery life after upgrading to iOS 5.0.1?

We’ve been receiving reports ranging across the board from it’s “way better” to even worse. There are of course people claiming battery life is unchanged from 5.0.

Our advice: DO NOT restore from a backup. Completely wipe your iPhone and install 5.0.1 fresh and re-setup everything. Yes, it’s a big hassle. No, you shouldn’t have to be doing this. Unfortunately it is what it is. Share your experiences after the break…

Review: Motorola Droid RAZR

The Droid RAZR; a name that both excites and worries us. The old clamshell RAZR was once a great phone that set the bar for all feature phones of its time. But a reluctance by Motorola to move on from the basic shape cast them into near bankruptcy as each and every new phone became a simple repeat of the last. Now many years later the “RAZR” name is back with an indistinguishable face and a feature set that demands respect. On that same note, many would argue Motorola is once again falling into old habits — releasing the same basic phone many times over with but a simple physical alteration and fancy new name.

This RAZR is a very different beast from that of its distant clamshell sibling. Everything from the list full of top-end specs to the (sorry)…razor thin design oozes sophistication and speed, but is it enough to hold the Android crown considering the Android platform’s flagship device, the Galaxy Nexus, is due in just a couple of weeks? Catch the full review after the break…

Shrink-rayed NanoSIM 60 Percent Smaller Than Standard SIM. Debuts Next Week In Paris.

The SIM card as we know it is getting another weight reduction by way of the nanoSIM. Next week in Paris the world will be introduced to a SIM card that is a 60% smaller than your standard SIM card and 30% smaller than a microSIM card.

The move towards nanoSIM cards is interesting given the fact very few manufacturers of cellular equipment have adopted the microSIM yet even though it’s been around for several years now. The two most prominent companies using the microSIM currently include Apple (iPad 2, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S) and Nokia (Lumia 7xx and 8xx). Some would argue the single-digit millimeters in space savings we’re lushing over is pretty ridiculous. But look at it this way. Every millimeter taken away from a simple piece of SIM card plastic can be added to the display, battery, internal components, etc. For that we say: “Bring them on”!