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News: Activate your iPhone with iTunes

Submitted by jcost on Tue, 06/26/2007 - 05:16.

Don't want to wait in the line to activate your phone? If you have iTunes, you can activate your new iPhone in the comforts of your own home or office. Simply connect up your iPhone, choose your service plan, check your credit, and activte the phone.

Once it's activated, then you can sync all of your information to the phone. Your contacts, email, podcasts, web bookmarks, etc. Just like syncing your iPod.

"Users will be able to activate their new iPhone in the comfort and
privacy of their own home or office, without having to wait in a store while
their phone is activated," said Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO. "There are tens of
millions of people in the US who already know how to sync their iPods with
iTunes, and syncing their new iPhone with iTunes works the same way."
"iPhone's user-driven activation is another example of how AT&T and Apple
have partnered to bring innovative new features to our customers," said
Randall Stephenson, chairman and CEO, AT&T. "iPhone's innovative activation
and sync is just one example of how this is going to be a real industry
game-changer."

iPhone will require a new two-year agreement with AT&T. Customers with existing AT&T accounts have the option of keeping their existing number and upgrading their account to work with iPhone.