Nokia, Qualcomm, AT&T: It isn’t news, stop telling me it is

I’ve received enough emails and tweets pointing me to an article VentureBeat published titled “Nokia to invade U.S. market — will launch new phone with AT&T” that I feel compelled to tell you why I didn’t write about it on IntoMobile.

It isn’t news. Period.

Here is the original press release detailing the plans Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Qualcomm (NSDQ: QCOM) have to cooperate. The first paragraph says it all really:

Nokia and Qualcomm plan to develop advanced mobile devices

February 17, 2009

Nokia and Qualcomm Incorporated today announced that the two companies are planning to work together to develop advanced UMTS mobile devices, initially for North America. The companies intend for the devices to be based on S60 software on Symbian OS, the world’s most used software for smartphones, and leverage Qualcomm’s advanced Mobile Station Modem MSM7xxx-series and MSM8xxx-series chipsets for cutting-edge processing performance and ubiquitous mobile broadband capabilities. The first mobile devices based on this collaboration are expected to launch in mid-2010 and be compatible with the forthcoming Symbian Foundation platform.

“Nokia is very pleased to be in discussions with Qualcomm around designing mobile devices that can benefit from the high level of integration found on MSM chipsets,” said Kai Oistamo, executive vice president, Devices, Nokia. “We are eager to demonstrate to the industry the possibilities that exist when innovative and open software is combined with advanced hardware solutions.”

“Nokia and Qualcomm are leaders in advanced wireless technologies, and this new level of cooperation will bring exceptional leaps in mobile performance to people around the world,” said Steve Mollenkopf, executive vice president of Qualcomm and president of Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. “We are very excited about leveraging the substantial synergies between S60 software and MSM chipsets.”

Why is VentureBeat taking the facts from a 9 month old press release and repackaging them as “tips” from an “insider” is beyond me, but hey, what do I know about journalism?

I’m just a blogger.