What Do You Do With Your Old First Generation iPhone After Buying A New iPhone 3G?
If you are like me, you currently have a first generation iPhone and plan on purchasing the new iPhone 3G July 11th but you are wondering what in the world do you do with your old iPhone. Don’t worry, you are not alone. I have been pondering the same thing. The $199 or $299 dollar question is what do you do with your old first generation iPhone? I have listed a few options that many of you may consider. Provided that you have already read How To Replace Your Original iPhone With The New iPhone 3G you can read below.
AT&T has confirmed that owners of first generation iPhones that have upgraded to the new iPhone 3G will be able to deactivate their original iPhone and use it as basically an iPod touch. You will still be able to access all features (except make phone calls, duh!) and even the iTunes store via Wi-Fi.
If you want to hand your old iPhone down to a family member or use it as another cell phone that can be done also. You can reactivate your original iPhone to utilize another cellular phone number (see your AT&T rep.) with no problem.
Other options may include unlocking the iPhone 1.0 and keep it for international use. You can pop in a sim card from other services from around the world and the iPhone should work just fine as an international cell phone.
You can keep the iPhone 1.0 in reserve just in case the new iPhone 3G is lost, or broken. You know how those glass screens can get damaged… You may want to BUY A CASE for it!
How To Replace Your Original iPhone With The New iPhone 3G
Many of you currently have an older iPhone and you plan on upgrading to the iPhone 3G but what do you do with your old iPhone? So how do you smoothly move from the original iPhone 2G to the new iPhone 3G and keep all of your current information, songs, and files?
It is actually a very easy process to push your original iPhone info over to the new iPhone 3G. iTunes will allow you to do this and on July 11th when and if you pick up your new iPhone 3G you can use the backup of your old iPhone and push that information over to the new iPhone 3G. All of your passwords, SMS messages, email accounts, contacts, photos and other personal settings will all be transferred over with ease.
Here are a few steps that will allow you do this once you get your hands on your new iPhone 3G.
Connect your original iPhone to iTunes and sync it. You must verify that you have backed up your original iPhone to iTunes.
Disconnect your original iPhone and connect your new iPhone 3G to iTunes. iTunes will now ask you if you want to restore from a backup or set up the iPhone 3G as a totally new phone. You will want to select the option to restore from a backup option.
Now, the $199 or $299 dollar question is what do you do with your old first generation iPhone?
AT&T has confirmed that owners of first generation iPhones that have upgraded to the new iPhone 3G will be able to deactivate their original iPhone and use it as basically an iPod touch. You will still be able to access all features (except make phone calls, duh!) and even the iTunes store via Wi-Fi.
If you want to hand your old iPhone down to a family member or use it as another cell phone that can be done also. You can reactivate your original iPhone to utilize another cellular phone number (see your AT&T rep.) with no problem.
If you do not know by now, the new iPhone 3G is not listed on the apple.com website. We all now know what the new iPhone 3G looks like so we can take down all of the speculation images, chatty banter and crazy rumors… it has all been confirmed.
Apple iPhone 3G commercial:
So what is up with the iPhone 3G, here it goes in a quick summary:
3G network (faster)
Built-in GPS (integrated Global Positioning System – a more accurate location now)
Longer battery life – (Talk time: Up to 5 hours on 3G; up to 10 hours on 2G, Standby time: Up to 300 hours, Internet use: Up to 5 hours on 3G; up to 6 hours on Wi-Fi, Video playback: Up to 7 hours. Audio playback: Up to 24 hours )
Slightly thinner (check out the curved plastic backing)
Lower price – (half the price of the outgoing iPhone, $199 for 8gb and $299 for 16gb)
MobileMe – (semi replacement for .mac, integration for enterprise/push email, MS exchange ActiveSync, calendar, contacts etc.
iPhone 2.0 – Apps Apps Apps, etc. On July 11th the 3G iPhone will be available and the new 2.0 firmware will be available with access to the iTunes App Store via iPhone or iTunes.
Everything else is still all same ol “iPhone” (all other features remain as in previous iPhone version)
What do you think about the new 3G iPhone?
Want one?
Can wait, or is the Nokia N series or blackberry your choice no matter what?
[white iphone images from the dutch sites iPhoneclub.nl and Macfreak.nl]
The hunt is on for images of the 3G iPhone in the last few days before the June 9th WWDC where Steve Jobs will introduce to the world the popularly talked about 3G iPhone. We have posted a few images that are not 100% confirmed as the new 3G iPhone but it very-well could be. It just may be another iPhone with a 3rd party case.
So which phone is king of the hill? I have not had a chance to get my hands on a new BlackBerry Bold 9000 but I have seen one in action when I was in Irving, TX. An employee from Research In Motion of Irving, TX was at a local starbucks and had what looked a like a demo model of the new BlackBerry Bold 9000. It was interesting for him to have this device in a briefcase with stickers on it. I don’t know if it was a test model of the BlackBerry Bold 9000 or if it was his personal device. He never did use the phone only pulled it out once and placed it back in the briefcase. How interesting for me to witness this, too bad I could not get a clear angle with my iPhone camera. I am pretty sure it was a BlackBerry Bold and not the BlackBerry Curve. Now onto the battle of the iPhone versus the BlackBerry Bold 9000.
This is a follow up the images from iPod Observer of the new 3G iPhone. We discovered that it is most certainly a 3rd party iPhone case. It is not the image of the new 3G iPhone. The guys at macrumors brought this to everyone’s attention.
Too bad so sad. We WILL get photos of the new 3G iPhone… once old Stevie boy Jobs pulls it out of his jean pocket.
The guys at ilounge.com have a very interesting entry going on for submitting images of what you think the new 3G iPhone will look like.
Both the iPod and iTunes can shuffle your music, choose Shuffle Songs on the iPod and it will randomly source your playlist, you can also use the iTunes’ Shuffle option or Party Shuffle feature for casual home listening at random. If you prefer using the shuffle feature, there are some tracks you definitely don’t want randomly playing in the middle of a listening session or things like spoken word tracks, but also perhaps certain types of music that would not enhance the mood you are trying to create. Most classical music does not lend itself to listening this way; do you really want to hear a random movement of Ludwig van Beethoven after a Beatles song?
You can prevent certain kinds of tracks from popping up by setting the Skip feature When Shuffling tag. Select Skip When Shuffling in the Options tab of the Info window for single tracks, or select Yes from the Skip When Shuffling menu in the Multiple Item Information window. This keeps iTunes or the iPod from playing certain tracks when they’re doing a full shuffle, but it also has other effects. Tracks with this tag won’t play in any of the playlist you’ve set to shuffle. They also won’t load on an iPod shuffle with Autofill (though you can add them manually). To listen to these tracks on an iPod shuffle, you need to set the device to play them in order; otherwise, none of them will play on the iPod shuffle.
