G1 News

I know, right? It’s the kind of thing that you would expect to know within five minutes of getting a T-Mobile G1, but this is a relatively recent discovery for me!

Think it’s because I’m used to the ‘big button = Home’ iPhone functionality of the iPhone, so I forget that little ‘Menu’ button on the G1 hides so many exciting features!

So using this button, you can set up any image to be behind your home screen, complete with that sexy parallax scrolling that makes things look cool!

Here goes…

- From the Home screen, press the Menu button and select Wallpaper from the menu. You can then select either Pictures or Wallpaper gallery.
- If you select Pictures, it’ll open your picture album. You can then select the picture you want to use as your wallpaper. Once a picture is selected, the cropper will appear. You can use the cropper to select the portion of the picture you want to use. Once you are done cropping, or if you don’t want to crop at all, select Save to set the picture as your wallpaper.

- Wallpaper gallery is a great selection of inbuilt wallpapers for the G1, all as equally appealing as the default watery one! If you select from the menu you’ll get a gallery of picture thumbnails. If you want to see a bigger picture of the thumbnail, highlight the picture. Once you figure out the picture you want, touch it to highlight it and then select Set wallpaper to set this picture as your Home screen wallpaper.

You’re welcome!