G1 News

This is what happens when you let developers monkey around inside your precious T-mobile G1 phone. They find all manner of things that might still have supposed to be kept secret…

Nosey Phandroid people unzipped the Market.APK file from inside the T-Mobile G1, and found little ringtone and wallpaper icons with attached Google Checkout logos!

Now, it doesn’t take Penny and Inspector Gadget to figure out that they will soon be charging for downloadable graphics and music for your G1!

With free alternatives like Ringdroid already floating around to create ringtones quickly and easily for zero pence…who’s going to pay for them?

Nevertheless these logos may just be relics, placeholders for an idea that never came to fruition, but it is interesting to see that even Google may not be the generous benefactors they seem to be…their freebie Android is going to start having to pay its way soon enough.

Between this and the new Google mobile search targeting, we think this shift will happen sooner rather than later…

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!