Samsung's Galaxy S5 Experience app

Samsung's Galaxy S5 Experience app lets you see some S5 features on your Nexus, Xperia, or another Android phone

As of today, March 21, Samsung is allowing customers to try out the Galaxy S5 in various stores in select markets (starting with the US and Switzerland). However, in case you can’t visit a store that has the S5 on display, Samsung launched a Galaxy S5 Experience app that “provides interactive introduction on Galaxy S5 and Wearable Devices.”

Don’t expect the app to work as if you’re actually playing with a real Galaxy S5. This is merely a walkthrough of the main features that you’ll find on the new smartphone, including its camera, the S Health app, the Ultra Power battery saving mode, and so on. The app may appear a bit buggy, with flattened buttons in some cases - as it did on one of our Nexus 4 handsets (you can see that in the gallery below).

You can download the Samsung Galaxy S5 Experience app at the Google Play link found at the end of this article. You need to have a smartphone running Android 4.0 or later, with a screen resolution of at least 480 x 800 pixels, plus 1GB of RAM and a 1.0GHz processor. The app does not work on tablets.

Samsung will officially launch the new Galaxy S5 starting April 11 in lots of countries around the world.