News & Weather

The News & Weather application allows you to view the news and weather in your area.

1.From the Home screen, tap

(Applications) (News & Weather).

2.Select from any of the available scrollable tabs located at the top of the screen: Weather, Top Stories, U.S., Sports, and Entertainment.

3.Tap the temperature to display a graph mapping the days temperature and humidity.

4.While on the Weather screen, press to display the following options:

Refresh: allows you to refresh the screen. Your location and the weather is updated if there have been any changes.

Settings: allows you to set weather, news, and refresh settings.

Weather settings: allows you to choose location(s) and set the metric for temperature displays.

News settings: allows you to choose topics, configure settings for fetching articles and images, and view the terms of service for news service.

Refresh settings: allows you to choose options for updating content.

Application version: displays the application version number.

To access the settings:

1.Press and then tap Settings.

2.Tap an available option: Weather settings, News settings, Refresh settings, and Application version.

Places

Google Places displays company logos on a layer of Google Maps. When viewing an area you can quickly locate a business or person, find out more information about the business, see coupons, public responses, and more.

1.From the Home screen, tap

(Applications) (Places).

2.Locate and tap one of the listed places (Restaurants, Cafes, Bars, Attractions, [user added searches], or IN THIS AREA) A list of places within this category displays.

3.Tap the Maps icon to launch the related maps feature.

4.Press and then tap Add a search. The functions adds additional search shortcuts

to the places screen.

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Samsung GH68-37463A user manual News & Weather, To access the settings, Applications Places