iPhone users offered radiation app

LOS ANGELES, March 25 (UPI) -- Developers of an app to monitor cellphone radiation emissions say they've posted instructions for iPhone users to obtain it despite its rejection by Apple.

The Israeli developer Tawkon said the app was rejected last year by Apple. Wednesday they posted instructions on downloading it by circumventing Apple using Cydia, an app for finding software unavailable through Apple's App Store, the Los Angeles Times reported.

"We tried the front door via Apple's App store," a post on the developer's Web site said, "but 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."

The developers say the app, also called tawkon, measures radiation emissions from cellphones and warns users about their "exposure level," which can vary depending on how people hold their phones, where the phone is being used and how good the connection is.

Tawkon introduced its app last May on BlackBerry's App World, and later made it available on Google's Android Market, the Times reported.