Samsung tries to lure away iPhone users with 30-day trial for $1

Samsung's sales have been sliding downward for a while now, and it's getting creative in its attempts to win new users. Today it announced an "Ultimate Test Drive" promotion targeted at iPhone users: Pay $1, and you can try a Galaxy S6 Edge, S6 Edge+, or Galaxy Note 5 for 30 days on your choice of Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, or T-Mobile.

If that sounds appealing to you, visit the samsungpromotions.com site on your iPhone and choose your carrier and model. As of this writing, it looks like some of the phones are "not available" on AT&T, Verizon, or T-Mobile, but this may just be an early bug that gets ironed out as the promotion runs.

These phones will come with activated SIM cards so you don't actually need to stop using your iPhone to try one. Unfortunately the promotion doesn't seem to extend to the Galaxy S6, which is a few months old but is the company's standard flagship. Trying any of these phones means trying out Samsung's curved screen experiments or its huge 5.7-inch phablets—that's not necessarily a bad thing, but they might not be for everybody.