Activating without itunes?

[madriley]

This is probably a stupid question, but...my iPhone 5 will be delivered to my office tomorrow. I won't have access to iTunes or wifi there. I'm doing an upgrade swap.

Would it be possible to call AT&T from work, have them swap the sim info to the correct phone, and use the phone until I can get home later that night and sync to iTunes? I know I won't have all of my stuff on the phone, but will it work for phone calls, etc until I have time to sync to iTunes at home? Or will it just have the "connect to iTunes" screen and force me to set up through iTunes before I can use it at all?

Thanks for any help

Jen

 

[bowlerman625]

The iDevices are made now to not require a mac or pc with iTunes to activate. I believe you should be able to activate yours without hitting iTunes first.

 

[protobiont]

Since you are doing an upgrade swap I would make sure you call AT&T before you activate it. There was another thread on here talking about that.

 

[verwon]

That's correct! iTunes is no longer needed.

 

[madriley]

And no wifi either, correct? Just don't want to screw this up and be stranded at work phone-less.

I did read the other thread about calling AT&T first to swap the sim/number, so I will call them before turning it on...thanks for mentioning that though!