Not true for all countries in the UK large wall posters in london in Tube stations (Busy stations as well where hundreds of thousands would have viewed)
Vodafone and carphone warehouse both advertised as the ultimate webbrowsing device on both websites and instore.

Vodafones eforum had huge amounts of people desperate to get hold of one and users. They went on to back order several times i belive.

Vodafones sales people at least in the retentions department were bigging up the phone.

Plenty of Magazine and newspaper mentions which normally are just the press releases from Nokia and resellers I guess.