AT&T Confirms Olympus for December or January, then Quickly Recants Statement
Well, looks like one of the social networking monkeys over at AT&T just let a biggie slip and got yelled at for it. In response to a question regarding the rumored Motorlola Olympus phone – which has a Tegra 2 processor and which Gizmodo’s lucky source says is an absolute iPhone killer – someone from AT&T’s AT&T Share account posted the following message:
“Hi Scott,
The Motorola Olympus should be available in December or January. Check back here for device launches or visit http://bit.ly/FKoFn for our latest devices.
Thanks~ATTShare”
And not too long of a wait later, it vanished. Instead, AT&T had this to say:
“This response was posted erroneously. We don’t have any information to share about upcoming devices.”
All the fine makings of a big public relations screw up, and the firmest confirmation of the device’s existence that we can conjure up to date. I hope that pour soul who manned the Facebook account hasn’t gotten fired over this. I mean, it can’t be worse than a Verizon employee leaving a Droid X inside of a corporate gym, right? Right? [via BGR]
