Hi Alex, You're correct. It's a PITA. However, some people have purchased a sim card from TMobile for about $10. It's a pay as you go card just to activate the phone.
Cheers, Eileen Sent from my iPhone On Jan 20, 2014, at 3:29 PM, "Alex Stone" <[email protected]> wrote: > Annie, unfortunately, you need to have a sinm card in an iphone in order to > activate it. After you've activated it you can take the sim card out, but > for the activation process you need a sim. I don't know why Apple decided to > do this, it's a pain in the ass! > Cheers > Alex > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Annie Skov Nielsen > Sent: 20 January 2014 23:22 > To: [email protected] > Subject: An IPhone without sim card. > > Hi. > > I have just updated an IPhone 5 without a sim card. That seems to be stupid, > because now I can not set it up just to use wifi. Can I do anything. Or do I > need to buy a simcard for it? > > Best regards Annie. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
