G1 News

Thanks to Google’s Android platform for providing this much needed piece of functionality really easily, unlike some (looking at you, iPhone)!

The T-Mobile G1 phone allows you to use any song in your music player as a ringtone.

- Go to the song in your library, hold your finger down on the song you wish to annoy others with in public! After a few seconds a menu will pop up.

- Select the “Use as phone ringtone” option from the menu and this song will be set as your ringtone.

I know, easy as pie!

May I suggest a few gems as ringtones?

The theme from the awesome video game Mirror’s Edge – Still Alive.

‘Videophone‘ from Beyonce’s new album…fierce!

Got music? Got a G1? Good. You’d like them to play nice together a lot more than they currently do, but with your jams all jammed up with iTunes, and DRM out the wazoo, things are not looking too good…

Well, it’s a good thing that Banshee 1.4 is here to cure your ills! It allows for a far easier way to move music onto your G1, using all manner of systems to keep your music synced up across platforms, playlists too!

It can work with pretty much any music storage system, and doesn’t require any jailbreaking or crowbarring of the G1 to get it started!

Aaron Bockover just wanted the G1 and other systems to get along…

“Because the Android platform is open source, I was able to easily figure out optimal ways of implementing Android/G1 support…For instance, I was unsure what the maximum cover art size should be on the device, so I just read the source. It was a nice for once to not have to reverse engineer or guess!”

Download the Banshee Media Player for the G1 here. It’s open source, and therefore free. So get it.

Make sure you read the instructions, however. Don’t come blogging to me about how it made you lose your Enya collection, it was probably your own fault.