Mobile

This desk covers phones, watches, and the platforms around them. A lead belongs here when a release changes what the device will do: a new build, a permission, a price, a radio, or a platform rule that application authors have to meet. Accessory news stays when the device is the story. A general feed that also covers kitchens and cars can still contribute a complete lead; the brief, later, is where we decide the lead is actually about a phone or a watch.

Search and answer engines should meet a definition before they meet a list. That definition is the short version, original to this desk, with no outbound link inside it. The intro around it is long enough that the collection page is a page about the beat. Briefs will be longer still, and they will be the URLs we ask to be indexed. Wire items are excluded from that set on purpose.

The ten headlines below were reduced from the raw pull. Each one had a title, a date, and a description. Rows missing any of those fields were left out, including sources that publish titles only. Two lines from one outlet is the starting cap so the day's rail is a notebook across the beat rather than one site's front page pasted in. Clicking a line opens the outlet.