The smartphone was available online since mid-June

Jul 9, 2015 21:09 GMT  ·  By

Microsoft's Lumia 735 went on sale in the United States in mid-June and can be purchased online through Verizon Wireless. However, beginning today, Microsoft announced that Lumia 735 is available for purchase at Verizon's brick and mortar stores.

It's not even one month since its launch in the US and Lumia 735 is available for just $30 on a two-year agreement or $8 a month for 24 months with 0% APR on Verizon Edge.

Also, for a limited time, customers who bring their phone number to Verizon, will also receive a $100 bill credit withing 2-3 bill cycles for each new smartphone activated on Verizon Edge.

The Lumia 735 is also available in the Microsoft Store for $200 with no contract. The smartphone comes only in dark grey, but those who find it dull can purchase additional wireless charging back covers for $25. They are available in orange, green white, red and cyan.

Customers get one year of Office 365 Personal for free

It's also worth mentioning that now through July 31, customers who buy and activate the Lumia 735 from Verizon Wireless will also receive one year of Office 365 Personal (while supplies last).

This special offer that's supposed to end this month also includes 1 terabyte of cloud storage on OneDrive, so users can access, edit and save their personal data such as music, videos and photos from their devices securely.

Spec-wise, the Lumia 735 is a mid-range smartphone that comes packed with a 4.7-inch OLED capacitive touchscreen display that supports HD (720p) resolution and features Corning Gorilla Glass 3 coating.

On the inside, the smartphone is equipped with a 1.2GHz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor, an Adreno 305 graphics processing unit and 1GB of RAM.

Microsoft Lumia 735 packs 8GB of internal memory, which can be further expanded up to 128GB via microSD card slot. Also, there's a 6.7-megapixel photo snapper on the back, which features Carl Zeiss optics, autofocus LED flash and full HD (1080p) video recording.