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News & Weather
The News & Weather application allows you to view the news and
weather for your area.
1. From the Home screen, tap (
Applications
)
(
News & Weather
).
2. Select from any of the available tabs:
Weather
,
Top Stories
,
Canada, Sports
, and
Entertainment
.
3. On the Weather screen, tap the temperature reading to
display a graph mapping the day’s temperature and
humidity.
4. While on the Weather screen, you can also press
to
access 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 automatic or manual location
determination and toggle metric or imperial units.
–
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.
Photo Editor
This application provides basic editing functions for pictures that
you take on your phone. Along with basic image tuning like
brightness, contrast, and color it also provides a wide variety of
effects used for editing the picture.
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From the Home screen, tap (
Applications
)
(
Photo editor
).
For more information, refer to “Photo Editor” on page 112.
Places
Google Places displays location information 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. Use the
Find places
field to manually enter a desired place,
tap one of the available categories (Restaurants, Coffee,
Bars, Attractions, ATMs, Gas Stations, Explore Nearby), or
tap Add to add a new category to the list. Matches are
filtered by those closest to your current location.