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User’s Guide T-Mobile G2
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.
S On 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.