People in the need-to-know circle usually know and plan activities great deal ahead. The commoners, like us, and eldar can only hope to watch for the public activities (the ones the need-to-know can not hide anyway), and extrapolate more or less accurately.

No matter how extrapolation are accurate, they are vigorously denied until rumours become facts.

In this case, we have not seen everything that is cooked in the need-to-know circle.

Besides, I recall that Eldar has managed on several occasions to publish facts about devices available to Nokia employees. So there is almost certainly someone who is leaking (dis)information to Eldar. In this case someone may have shared his/hers concerns about mikrokia partnership.

BTW: How many Nokians are still posting here?