There is no doubt that Samsung takes the lion’s share when it comes to Android manufacturers globally, with very many customers using its devices. The company has not resorted to luring more mobile users to try out its Galaxy experience and where else to go apart from tempting iPhone users to move over to the Android side. The company has launched a new web app experience called iTest that puts the Galaxy experience on an iPhone.
News coming from MacRumors indicates that Samsung is advertising the app in New Zealand, although the experience is open to everyone with an iPhone. iTest allows iPhone users to play around with a mock version of Android, complete with apps and notifications. Obviously, the experience is fairly limited, but it seems to give iPhone users a good idea of what it’s like to own a phone like the Galaxy s21 Ultra.
The iTest experience is full of simulated tutorials and demos, and you’ll even get a call that informs you all about the features found on phones like the Galaxy S21 series.
We have seen companies do this in the past as Microsoft has done the same thing back in the day with Windows Phone (RIP). Way back, Microsoft released a demo web app for iOS and Android that gave users the Windows Phone 7.5 experience, back when it was trying to coax users onto its troubled platform. Of course, Windows Phone devices had a pretty small market share, so it made sense as an act of desperation, but Samsung’s Galaxy devices are more or less everywhere, so it’s a curious move for the company to make.
If you’ve got an iPhone (we know some of you do) then you can head over to the iTest website and scan the QR code to install the web app.
