There has been a lot of advertising in the Cingular stores with several promotional items in plain view of customers, of course as well as a web site: cingularpromo.com/cash Which is a site that promotes instant messaging for possible prizes. Other places of significant promoting is the large book that's in Cingular stores that explains the whole merger thing, and again, listed and pictured there.

All of these signs lead to the advertising of the Sony Ericsson z500a flip phone. What an ambitious string of promotions and advertising for a phone that's not available from cingular.com or at any Cingular store...yet.

There's a lot of talk of this highly anticipated model that might be coming real soon, any final word on it's release?