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News & Weather

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.

SOn the News & Weather screen, press Menu and touch Settings.

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”.

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 improves performance at the expense of more data use and decreased battery life between charges.

Prefetch images

Check to prefetch news images in addition to news text, when the headlines are downloaded. Prefetching images improves performance at the expense of more data use and decreased battery life between charges. This setting is only available when Prefetch articles is checked.

User’s Guide

T-Mobile G2

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