News & Weather; Places - Samsung SGH-T679 Galaxy Exhibit 4G User Manual

News & Weather
The News & Weather application allows you to
view the news and weather in your area.
1. From the Home screen, tap
(Applications)
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.
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Weather settings: allows you to choose
location(s) and set the metric for temperature
displays.
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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.
(News & Weather).
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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)
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.
Applications and Development
(Places).
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