AT&T Wireless stores go to sleep, wake up as Cingular stores

If you swing by your local AT&T Wireless store today you'll probably notice that it's disappeared and been replaced with a Cingular store. Just one more sign of the merger's closure and that ATTWS is gone and isn't coming back
(which may or may not be a good thing depending on your experience with them. You may also notice that they've officially stopped selling all of the phones that AT&T Wireless used to carry—including the white hot
Audiovox SMT 5600 (which is also known as the C500 and a lot of other names you probably don't have to worry about), the Windows Mobile-powered Smartphone that all the cool kids have been snapping up. Current AT&T subscribers are grandfathered and will be able to continue using their current phone and plan, but Cingular is strongly encouraging subscribers to switch to a new Cingular plan and get a new phone in order to "enjoy all the services" they offer. If they really wanted to they could help people unlock their phones for use on Cingular's network, but there's not really any money in that, is there?

[Via PhoneScoop]