HP iPAQ hw6920 / hw6925 / hw6915 / hw6945

After waiting for this thing for months and having the release being constantly postponed I just don't understand why? Why my friends in the UK and elsewhere are getting the hw6900 weeks before we do. Anybody have an answer to this? The specs are the same and none of them are reporting any problems other than bragging about it. I mean jeeze after all it is an American company and shouldn't we have the first wack at it. Somebody mentioned Cingular is the holdup but I don't see how when HP is going to sell locked and unlocked versions. Are they trying to burn off the unsold hw6500 series first?