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Wondering why the Thunderbolt isn’t in stores yet? Hard to say — apart from the reeling HTC and Verizon employees might be doing in light of the Apple / Intel news — but a Best Buy in California spilled the bad news on Twitter last night that it’s now expecting Big Red’s first LTE phone on March 4th. As Android Police points out, the store appears to have confused the day March 4th falls on (it’s a Friday, not a Thursday), but we’re figuring it’s far more likely the date is right, not the day of the week. And if Best Buy has a launch exclusive on this thing, that means it could be another week or two beyond that before the phone shows up in Verizon retail locations and elsewhere. Bummer, eh?

Update: We just got an image (you can see it for yourself after the break) that seems to set the ThunderBolt’s Best Buy arrival date even later than March 4th. According to the Best Buy Mobile document, it will be on sale on March 10th. We’re assuming the timing keeps being adjusted, but we think it’s pretty fair to say things keep getting pushed back.

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HTC Thunderbolt delayed until March 4th, says a Best Buy store with a Twitter account (update: or maybe March 10th?) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 24 Feb 2011 15:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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That’s right human beings — it’s happening again! The Engadget crew is getting together their best party outfits and shipping out west for another installment of our fabulous reader meetups. Our last event in NYC drew loads of people and was an all around blast, and the San Francisco installment is sure to be just as explosive (or maybe more? c’mon… show us what you’ve got). This time around we’re partnering with Sprint, as well as Sony PlayStation, Motorola, HP, Roku, Samsung, VUDU, RIM, Sling, Sonos, HTC, Corning, Sphero, OnLive, Plantronics, Snapstick, and more to bring you a night of gadget geeking, giveaways, delicious foodstuffs, and some awesome music (provided by none other than our podcast producer, Trent Wolbe). Also, a whole mess of the Engadget editors will be on hand to entertain and inform, so if you have any pressing questions — jot them down!

The all ages shindig will take place tomorrow, February 25 at City View at The Metreon, which is located conveniently in downtown SF. If you’re a nerd in the city, you most likely already know what we’re talking about. The doors will open at 6:30PM, and capacity is limited to 1200 people — so if you want to get inside, get there early!

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After they strut their stuff on the CES runway the only thing left for 2011’s latest & greatest HDTVs to do is take their act on the road and that’s exactly what’s happening. CNET’s David Katzmaier has tweeted about finding a few Samsung and Panasonic models at various retailers already, though as usual it’s the lower end models that are coming in first — if you want a top of the line Panasonic VT30 instead of a 720p 3D Samsung D490 plasma (51-inch, $969), you’ll have to wait. Still, it’s good to ballpark what you’ll have to budget and while HDGuru has followed up on previous Panasonic pricing leaks with MAP and specs for most of Samsung’s line, cj1319 on AVSForum has early details on minimum advertised prices on LG’s Nano LED lit LCDs & plasmas. Check the source links below for all the details,but don’t expect any help from us while you’re scraping together 10 g’s for the 72-inch 72LZ9700 LG LCD pictured above.

2011’s new HDTVs from Samsung, Panasonic, LG start to arrive in stores, pricing leaks out originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 24 Feb 2011 14:18:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Not only is the Planters Peanut spokesperson Mr. Peanut himself a peanut, but he also drives around in one as well. And now his iconic car is getting a fully fledged green makeover.

The Nutmobile, as it’s officially called, now runs on biodiesel and features a wind turbine, solar panels, parts made from recycled materials, and LED lighting. The folks at Planters see the makeover as a good way to spread their message of sustainability.

“This form of advertising has really taken off,” Joe Doyon told the New York Times. “The advent of camera phones means that vehicles like the Nutmobile get photographed a lot.”

Perched behind Nokia’s head of smart devices, Jo Harlow, at a recent event in China is what appears to be a new home screen on an N8, yet more evidence — hot on the heels of the company’s MWC event — that Espoo still has plenty of love in the wings for its dead-platform-walking. Notably, it appears they’re looking at migrating key information to the top of the screen to create a dedicated status bar, which would presumably stay visible as you navigate from screen to screen — akin to most other platforms on the market — accompanied by a string of soft button icons at the bottom. Interestingly, the UI in some respects mirrors what we saw on the leaked shots of the apparently killed N9 — small black status bar and icons along the bottom — which would seem to tell us one of two things: either the N9 was a Symbian device all along, or the company had planned on standardizing UI elements between its future Symbian and MeeGo roadmaps. Either way, this looks like a nice improvement… and in all likelihood, a far cry from what we’ll see when these guys start busting out Windows Phone 7 devices.

Nokia sneaks a look at new Symbian UI during China event originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 24 Feb 2011 13:52:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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