On "crazy rumors" and due precautions: remembering that there is still no 'Nokia by Microsoft Lumia with Android'

Between the news from last week and the news from the beginning of this week, it seems as if Evleaks and company had gone into runaway mode and decided to release rumorswhich priest distributing wafers on any given Sunday. Among them, the following stand out: a supposed Lumia 830, the definitive arrival of the Surface Mini, the 'Nokia by Microsoft' brand or the possibility of a Lumia with Android.

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Although some may be more solid than others, the truth is that we must never forget that, for now, they are just that: rumors.Rumors described as crazy by Frank X. Shaw, head of communications at Microsoft. On his Twitter account Shaw has posted a message wondering if there were any &39;crazy rumor day&39; statements I missed? , implying that some of the rumors that have come out in the last few hours have no truth. The problem is that Shaw has not specified which of them deserve that qualification."

It is better to be cautious…

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Of those published perhaps the most suspicious is the render of the supposed Lumia 830 with the brand &39;Nokia by Microsoft&39; on its part rear. Appearing opportunely after a series of previous images and supposedly coming from the Chinese social network Baidu, it was first published by WindowsBlogItalia and later distributed online without its origin being clear. In addition, there are those who consider it directly as a fake, such as Tom Warren from The Verge."

The rest of the rumors share their origin in the Evleaks Twitter account. It has earned its well-deserved reputation as a reliable source thanks to a very long track record of hits, including many involving Microsoft and Nokia. The point is that some of the now published directly contradict other information from equally reliable sources. This is the case of the possibility of seeing a Surface Mini on the market this summer, something that ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley rules out completely, delaying its release until 2015.

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The two that remain are difficult to believe but no one has dared to deny them completely yet. For Microsoft to try to resort to the use of the Nokia brand in its future smartphones, albeit with the confusing name of Nokia by Microsoft, would not be so extravagant; but what seems to have neither head nor tail is that in Redmond they are considering launching a Lumia with Android operating system on the market.Perhaps that is the main rumor that deserves the classification of crazy."

When it comes to rumors, we always try to repeat that you must take the proper precautions, and in this case it is well worth taking them to the extreme. This is despite the fact that some of them come from usually reliable sources, such as Evleaks itself. It should not be forgotten that, just last week, the popular Twitter account published two news items that turned out to be false information coming from the mind of a 14-year-old boy who posed as a Google engineer.

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