AT&T executive shows off iPhone at CTIA
This almost counts as alarming … when AT&T COO Randall L.
Stephenson held up an Apple iPhone, due to be distributed this June
with Cingular AT&T as the exclusive carrier, he joked that it would
be a test of the user interface because it was the first time he’s held
one. That’s right—three months after the public disclosure of the
relationship with Apple and three months away from what is already the
carrier’s most intensely covered product launch, the COO of the parent
company is just holding one for the first time. Perhaps as telling, he
didn’t actually demo the phone; the brief look at what iPhone can do
was canned video.