Hadlee Simons / Android Authority
Whether it’s our weekly Wallpaper Wednesday series or backgrounds from specific devices, we’re all about sharing wallpapers with you folks. But what are our favorite wallpapers that we use on our own Android phones?
Well, I asked the Android Authority team for their favorite backgrounds. Some team members used wallpapers showing their loved ones and were thus unable to share their backgrounds. Fortunately, we still had more than a few cool submissions from other members, as you can see below!
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Hadlee Simons
There are quite a few photos I like using as wallpapers on my Android phone, but here are three picks. The first photo was taken in Barcelona, looking down a road and into the city. Meanwhile, the second snap was taken in Maui, Hawaii, at sunset during the Snapdragon Summit 2023. You can never go wrong with sunsets.
Finally, the third photo was taken with the Pixel 4’s astrophotography mode in Sutherland, South Africa, back in 2019. This is generally considered the darkest place in the country, and I had to stand still for a few minutes while a friend took the photo. It’s not the sharpest or most detailed snap, but how cool is that? The starry sky also gets a parallax effect if you enable the cinematic wallpaper option on Pixel phones, although it’s quite wonky on my Pixel 7 Pro.
Jonathan Feist
Say what you will about AI-generated imagery, but image generators are a quick and easy way to create a wallpaper of your choosing. That’s what Jonathan Feist did with these two wallpapers showing a blue dragon. These aren’t the exact wallpapers he’s currently using, but ones generated with a similar prompt via Gemini.
Jonathan also kindly included the prompt if you like the look of these images: Please generate a realistic looking 8K image of a dragon at night. It should be a blue dragon standing on a small island that is surrounded by other small islands scattered around a really foggy lake. The lake is surrounded by Japanese bonsai type trees. There is a mountain range in the background and a full moon in the sky. The dragon should be breathing blue fire in a menacing stance. Give the dragon very realistic looking scales and skin from a lizard.
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