G1 News

A great little idea from Android And Me, some awesome Android-themed wallpapers for your favourite Google phones! Some spooky Halloween efforts, from bats to ghosts!

Download the Halloween Android wallpapers from here!

They should be compatible with whichever Android phone you have from the HTC Magic to the original G1, although the resolution may be wrong for the new HTC Tattoo…

Simply save them to your PC or Mac, and transfer them over to the handset’s memory stick. Simples!

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…

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!