HTC Desire 530 by Verizon
Last month the HTC Desire 530 became
available in the US for the first time, both in unlocked form as well as
through T-Mobile. And starting today Verizon is offering the handset too, even
undercutting the magenta carrier on price.
You can purchase the Desire 530 online
from Big Red right now, or if you want to buy it from a store you need to wait
until August 11. It's priced at US$ 6 per month with a 24-month installment plan,
adding up to a full retail price of US$ 144 (US$ 16 less than at T-Mobile).
For a limited time, if you already have
Verizon service and activate a new line you can get the phone for just US$ 2 per
month with the same two-year payment plan, so the total in this case will be
only US$ 48. If you upgrade an existing line, you receive US$ 50 off the US$ 144 retail
price if you order online with device payment (and this too only works for a
limited time, though the carrier hasn't defined what exactly that means).
Finally, there's also the option of going prepaid, in which case the HTC Desire
530 will set you back US$ 99.99.
The smartphone features a 5-inch 720p
touchscreen, an 8 MP rear camera with LED flash, a 5 MP front-facing shooter,
the Qualcomm Snapdragon 210 SoC (with a 1.1 GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 CPU), 1.5 GB
of RAM, 16 GB of expandable storage, and a 2,200 mAh battery. It runs Android
6.0 Marshmallow.
