I should have done this hours ago. Following my instincts, I went ahead and switched the SIM cards between my old and new iPhones, and when I turned it back on the new one was activated! In business!! Why AT&T and Apple couldn’t have just come out and said to do that in the first [...]

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It has been roughly six hours since I first powered up my iPhone 3G S, but I am still waiting for the magical activation to happen. A little while ago it occured to me to look up my blog posts from June, 2007, to remind myself of how long it took to get the original [...]

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It’s here at last. Now, I’m not going to do the “unboxing” schtick — that’s been done. But as I recall from 2007 when we bought our original iPhones, getting the shrinkwrap off was the hard part. Connecting to iTunes and restoring from the backup I made from my old phone has gone well, but [...]

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