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How to replace an iPhone 2G with an iPhone 3G

With only four days until the iPhone 3G launch here in the U.S. (and 21 other countries) people are putting together their strategies for obtaining Apple’s latest handset. In preparation for the move from 2G to 3G Apple has posted a handy knowledge base article (HT2109) called How to replace an original iPhone with an iPhone 3G. The document outlines how to upgrade to Apple’s latest and greatest while preserving “your saved SMS messages, email accounts and passwords, photos, notes, and other personal settings.”

The steps are amazing simple and can be boiled down to two steps:

1. Connect your original iPhone to iTunes and sync it. Verify that your original iPhone is backed up.
2. Connect iPhone 3G to iTunes and then iTunes will ask you if you want to restore from a backup or set up iPhone 3G as a new phone. When prompted, select the backup of your original iPhone.

The kbase article also offers some tips about what to do if the restore goes awry (”use iTunes to restore iPhone OS on iPhone 3G and continue following these instructions at step 4.”) Another worthwhile tip in the document is how “to erase your original iPhone so someone else can use it”

tap Setting > General > Reset > Erase all contents and settings on your original iPhone.

If you haven’t already decided what to do with your iPhone 2G, see my previous post on What to do with your first generation iPhone.

[Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com]

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