Changing news & weather settings, News & weather settings, Weather settings – Samsung Android 2.3 User Manual

Page 319: News settings, Refresh settings, Application version, Use my location, Set location, Use celsius, Select news topics

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News & Weather

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Android User’s Guide

Changing News & Weather settings

You can configure a number of settings for News & Weather.

The location and related settings also affect the display of the News & Weather widget
and the Clock application.

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To open the News & Weather settings screen, press Press Menu

and touch

Settings.

News & Weather settings

Weather settings

See “Weather settings” on page 319.

News settings

See “News settings” on page 319.

Refresh settings

See “Refresh settings” on page 320.

Application version

Displays the version of the News & Weather application

installed on your phone.

Weather settings

Use my location

Check to use the phone’s location service to determine your

location when displaying weather information. Uncheck to set the location manually,
using

Set location.

Set location

When

Use my location is unchecked, touch to specify the location

for weather information by entering a city or postal code.

Use Celsius

Check to use the Celsius temperature scale instead of Fahrenheit.

News settings

Select news topics

Opens a screen where you can select the categories of news

to include in the scrolling list of News & Weather tabs. You can also touch

Custom

topic to enter specific topics—for example, “solar power” or “Olympics”.

News terms of service

Opens a screen with details about the terms of service

for Google News.

Prefetch articles

Check to download news articles so that they open more

quickly and are available when you don’t have a data connection. Prefetching articles

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