Well, it’s March 4th and still no HTC Thunderbolt; yet another rumored release date crossed off the calendar.

But it does appear that release is fast approaching. Verizon CFO Fran Shammo said that the LTE smartphone will launch “very shortly,”  and product literature is beginning to show up at Verizon Wireless stores.

And GottaBeMobile says a few chatty Best Buy employees pegged the new-new-new launch date as March 10th. We’ll see. 

One interesting item appears in those in-store product materials:  Video Skype.  We’re not sure if this will require LTE or if it works over 3G as well, but this is noteworthy feature to say the least.