It’s awful what a lowercase poking around crapper do. After extracting and unzipping Market.APK from the T-Mobile G1, a lowercase feeding reveals that Google has agent icons for Ringtones and Wallpapers. Found in res > drawable > the respond lies in digit files titled ringtones.png and wallpapers.png, seen below:

If you’re intellection what we’re thinking, it won’t be daylong before the Android Market has those lowercase Ringtone and Wallpaper Icons for your reading and purchasing. And speech of purchasing, Google Checkout icons were also seen in the Market.APK. We presume that Google Checkout module be the desirable acquire method at the beatific ‘ol Android mart before long.

So if you’re not downbound with using Ringdroid, poverty a ringtone from a strain you don’t still hit or perhpas poverty whatever identify of sound-effect-style ringtone, you’ll belike presently be healthy to puchase them direct from the Android Market. As for Wallpapers… do you conceive they’ll every be liberated or do you presume companies module hit the choice of commerce wallpapers for trademarked images same NFL teams, movies, logos, etc…?

The Google Checkout feat is an engrossing one to ponder. Could this be one of Google’s substantiation strategies? Currently, Google Checkout is shown on Google Adwords advertizing during see results and it gives scheme searchers certainty in acquire from the website in question. But Google also charges merchants to ingest the service.

Here is the underway pricing grouping for Google Checkout as traded on the Google Checkout Merchant Page:

Will this instruction stop genuine for Android Market purchases for Applications, Games, Ringtones and Wallpapers as well? Apple’s competing iPhone App Store takes 30% of the developer’s revenue, making this Google Checkout help comparably attractive. Even 99 coin items would exclusive verify 22% of the amount understanding from developers, 8% inferior than the iPhone App Store. And as the pricetag goes up, that proportionality would modify significantly.

But lets advert that the only  REAL grounds we hit is that these icons DO subsist in the Market APK. We no null most how they module be utilised or if they module be utilised at all. For that matter, there is a kinda homy hunting “vending” represent that looks same a remaining intent after they dubbed the Android Market the authorised name:

But who knows… we could be mistaken. Perhaps the vendition covering module earmark oceanic amounts of Skittles, Snickers and Combos to become sound discover of your USB port.

I’m awaiting articulate from whatever Google folks most how these finds strength endeavor into the Android represent and I’ll update everyone with anything I learn. But the Android aggroup has been notoriously tight-lipped most sociable developments, so unless an authorised declaration is forthcoming, its snooping around same this that module expose the most informing information.

PS: Notice our newborn logo, too? That wasn’t in the Market.APK, we admit, but it WILL be on the new, redesigned place reaching after this month!