The title says it all. iOS 4.3 conveniently allows iPad users to choose what their Side Switch does. Now, everyone can calm down.

Yes folks, the fabled Verizon iPhone, the one that many believed would be available only once some far away planets aligned and sacred offerings to Mr. Steve Jobs himself were made, has finally became a reality.

Not much has changed since the “original” iPhone 4 became available to AT&T wireless customers last June, but the two noteworthy additions/changes is the inclusion of the Wireless Hotspot feature coming preloaded (at an additional charge mind you..) on the device and a button or two being shifted to accommodate the new antenna design. Though not official, speculation has ensued that the Antenna Design has been modified breaking way for a better signal- mostly to avoid the debacle caused by the antenna problems in the first few days after the initial release. Besides these few things, the same A4 chip, Retina Display, 512MB of RAM is still included in the same iPhone package many have came to know and love.

Phone Pricing:
The iPhone 4 will be priced per usual at:
$199 for a 16GB version
$299 for a 32GB version

Many have probably gotten this far into the read and are thinking “Why would I choose this iPhone over the other”. Although each provider has more prominence throughout each parts of the country, their plans are now different. Verizon offers the unlimited 3G Data Pack at $30 extra a month, while AT&T offers a capped 2GB a month. Keep this in mind as you purchase any device in the upcoming months really.

*UPDATE* It seems there is no preloaded crapware…erg, “Verizon Apps”… on the the device according to a hands on review by the Engadget crew. Kiss VCast and VZ Navigator goodbye!

UPDATE #2 Current Verizon customers will be given the option to preorder and receive an iPhone 4 on February 3rd on a first come first serve basis.

The Motorola Xoom, a dual core tablet running Android 3.0 Honeycomb, won the title of “Best Gadget of CES”- judged by editors of Cnet. The Xoom also won the “Best Tablet of CES” award.

Motorola was not satisfied with this though, instead they produced the Android Powered Atrix 4G smartphone winning the “Best Smartphone of CES” award as well.

Motorola Mobility device head, Alain Mutricy, was quoted saying, “Our partnership with Google has been very intense and has enabled some great technology.”

Congrats to Moto and Android as a whole!

Yes, you read that correctly. All firmwares ever released or to be released by Sony will have homebrew. Why? Well, the company has no way of making their gaming machines know what is homebrew and what is officially released programs.

How is this possible? Well, the makers of both products have added a secret encryption to everything that is ran on either machine. Without this encryption, your programs will not run. But, that secret key has been released for both of the devices and this year, we will see both devices explode with homebrew and Sony won’t be able to do anything about it!

Thanks Geohot, Team fail0verflow, Mathiuel, and the others! We love you and truly appreciate everything you’ve done for us!

Source 1: Mathieul’s Announcement
Source 2: Geohot’s Love
Source 3: Self-Signed Hello World For PS3
Source 4: PS3 Keys Found

Last month, a group of devs calling themselves Project #PS3Bluray had announced that they were working on a solution for end users who had lost there blue ray playback functionality due to downgrading there PS3 to an older firmware version. Well, that time is now! Project #PS3BluRay have just released an easy to use PS3 blue ray application exclusively over at psgroove.com and is now ready to fix your PS3 blue ray problems.

BACKGROUND

The tools in the suite are:

HOW IT WORKS

REQUIREMENTS

DETAILED INSTRUCTIONS

ABOUT THE TOOLS

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP:

ABOUT THIS PROJECT:

Source: psgroove.com Download: DRLtools

Heden from Team DeLiGhT has just sent our neighbors over at psgroove.com a very nice new years demo for the PS3. It Displays a new years greeting as well as some pretty cool animated graphics.

(Video below)

PSGroove.com – Happy New Year 2011! Intro from DeLiGhT

Well, another year is almost behind us. Mistakes have been made and hearts have been broken; but we have learnt. We Learn from our mistakes so that we may never do them again. Although we know deep in our hearts; we sometimes still might. Humanity has never been about being that “perfect” someone. It has always been about gathering knowledge and life experience. Learning from our triumphs; as well as our failures. As we march towards a new year, I invite you all to take a moment to think about what you have accomplished this year, and what you would like to accomplish in the year to come. May you receive everything you have ever dreamt of having, and much more. With that, I wish you all a sincere and very Happy new year.

From my family to yours – PuppetMaster

Source: psgroove.com

Download link HappyNewYear2011.rar

Ohhhhh DANG this thang is looking sexy!

Modeled after the Gallery 3D app (hopefully following suite with the GPU acceleration), Google will be giving us Android users a new Music player that will directly rival the competition. In fact, the way it handles the music files, it seems it will outperform even the coveted “Cover Flow”.

The video appears to possibly signify even further advances in the Android OS as a whole. It appears that by clicking the icon in the status bar you are returned to the Apps main menu. Possibly even leading to buttonless Android Phones!

Watch the Video, & Discuss In Our Forums

The team at Brewology hopes that everyone had a safe and joyous Christmas yesterday, Kwanzaa today, and even a great week of Chanukah, earlier this month. We are glad you’re visiting this site and hope to continue giving back to you!

anonymous has released GenPlus-GX v0.01. Emulate the SEGA Genesis or Mega Drive on the PS3.

Genesisplus GX on PS3 it\’s just for change my mind before i go back to ps3sx rnrnput all folders so ./genplus ./genplus/roms ./genplus/bios ./genplus/state ./genplus/sramrnon root of dev_usb000 so the first usb port on your right .rnrnSupport in this test version :rn2 Players rnroms supportrnZip supportrnsvp emulation for virtua racing and Corn rnTODO :rnFixed the sound i\’ve a mini glich look like the sound buffer size is too long ?!?rnFixe save states already work but freeze on some games so disabled

Download it from the Brewology Store or PS3 Homebrew Manager.

deanrr has released multiMAN v1.10.18. multiMAN combines Open Manager, Simple File Manager and AVCHD for an all in one solution. It allows users to run backups, watch AVCHD videos and manage there files. Formerly known as AVCHD and Game Manager, it is now being called multiMAN. The word multi is essential to this manager due to it’s multifunctional tools. multiMAN does more then just backup games to your PS3.

New Feature in 1.10.18
- Added new options in the file \”options_default.ini\” to define the percentage of mouse deadzone (borders)
- Added ability to copy audio files (MP3/WAV/AAC) in / ps3_home/music \”(\” Music \”menu on the XMB)
- Added ability to copy the image files (PNG / JPG) in / ps3_home/photo \”(menu\” Photo \”from the XMB)
- Correct detection of Blu-Ray video

Download it from the Brewology Store or PS3 Homebrew Manager.