User guide

News & Weather
The News & Weather application oers updates on current events and local weather forecasts.
Viewing the weather information
1. From the Home screen, tap Apps > News & Weather.
2. Tap
Weather at the top of the screen. Or ick left across the screen to switch to Weather view.
3. Tap the weather summary for a more detailed forecast.
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Tap a time on the weather graph for a detailed, hour-by-hour forecast.
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Tap the weather detail screen to return the weather summary.
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Press
Menu > Refresh to get the latest information.
Reading news articles
1. From the Home screen, tap Apps > News & Weather.
2. Tap a news category at the top of the screen. Or swipe left or right across the screen to switch news categories.
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Press
Menu > Refresh to get the latest information.
3. Tap a headline to view a detailed news article in your browser.
News & Weather settings
1. From the Home screen, tap Apps > News & Weather.
2. Press
Menu > Settings.
Weather settings Use my location Use the phone’s location service to determine your location when displaying weather
information.
Set location When Use my location is unchecked, tap to specify the location for weather
information by entering a city or postal code.
Use metric Toggle metric/imperial units.
News settings Select news topics Select the categories of news to include in the scrolling list of News & Weather tabs.
You can also tap
Custom topic to enter specic topics.
Prefetch articles Download news articles so that they open more quickly and are available when you
don’t have a data connection.
Prefetch images Prefetch news images in addition to news text, when the headlines are downloaded.
This setting is only available when Prefetch articles is checked.
News terms of service Details about the terms of service for Google News.
Mobile privacy policy Display the Google Mobile Privacy Policy.
Refresh settings Auto-refresh Update information automatically, at the frequency you set with Refresh interval.
For automatic refresh to work, you must also have Background Data turned on in the
Settings application.
Refresh interval Set how often to update the News & Weather automatically, if Auto-refresh is
checked.
Refresh status Displays the date and time of the last refresh.
Application
version
Displays the application version installed on your phone.
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