Verizon Wireless confirmed this morning that it will begin selling the HTC Thunderbolt for $249 with a two-year contract on Thursday.  This ends a two-month wait for the first LTE-capable smartphone from the carrier.

Everything but the price and release date has been known for some time, but one other interesting tidbit from today’s announcement is that the Thunderbolt will include a 32GB microSDHC memory card in addition to the 8GB of onboard flash memory.  The 32GB card will come pre-installed for a total of 40GB of storage.

If you want the Thunderbolt quickly, you can grab it online or in a Verizon Wireless store starting Thursday.  But if you want to save a little cash, wait bit; one of the third-party sellers will almost certainly have it for less shortly thereafter.