Hi Tracy, My 5S finally showed up this morning after I found out yesterday that the UPS delivery guy delivered it to the store here in my town where they sell Apple product. Unfortunately I didn't realize this until shortly before 6 PM when they were already closed so he couldn't get it back from them until this morning. Oh well, a bit more anticipation built-up never hurt anybody.
Anyhow, the setup process is about as simple and easy as it can get and Apple's "It just works" definitely applies here. I took the phone out of the box and even before I turned it on put my new Nano SIM into the phone. Tracy, I am in Canada and while I know AT&T and T-Mobil use SIM cards, I don't think Verizon does as they are still a CDMA carrier. I have to leave it somebody else to confirm his and to explain how your phone number is activated, but I assume it might not be that different as with a SIM where you have to do it by signing in on the Verizon website. After I inserted my SIM I plugged in the Lightning cable since while a new phone usually has a good amount of charge, I just wanted to make sure it had power and also because I know plugging in the cable turns the phone on. After a little bit the phone vibrated and I knew it was at that point on. Another advantage when Voiceover is not on yet is that if you plug the phone in it will vibrate once when it comes on. I waited a maybe 10 more seconds to make sure it was ready, then I pressed the home key 3 times and Voiceover came on. I selected English from the list of languages, then my location/country and so on. The setup process is very straight forward, you can join your WiFi right there, you are asked to sign in with your Apple Id and then you can enable iCloud, iMessage and Facetime, Find my iPhone, SIRI and all that. The first time I was asked to enter text, I think it was for my WiFi, I right away turned the rotor to typing mode and selected touch typing since touch typing is not enabled by default. It probably took me 6 or 8 minutes to go through the entire setup process. You are also asked I think at the end if you want to set up as a new phone or restore from a backup. I chose new phone here, but I am now going to restore from my encrypted iTunes backup. Once the setup process was done I had a notification right away that a newer version of iOS was available. I went into Settings and installed the iOS 7.02 update. While it was doing the iOS 7 update I signed into my mobile carrier's website to activate my new Nano SIM which I had already received a few days ago. I use Koodo here in Canada which is a MVNO owned by Telus. I clicked on "Mobile Phones" and then on "Change Phone". >From here I had 2 radio buttons to choose from, one was "Upgrade my Phone" and one was "New SIM Card in my current phone". I chose the first, clicked next and was now asked to enter the SIM Card Number. I had already written that down so I just copied it and pasted it, clicked next, confirmed one more time and it was done. At that point the update was also done and when my phone came back on Voiceover was talking and my new SIM worked. I now first went into Voiceover settings and downloaded the Enhanced Quality voice for US English, then the Australien one and then I added German and downloaded the high quality german voice. Now after I send this I will restore from my encrypted iTunes backup. At first I thought I start over, but I already had gotten rid of as many apps as I could by uninstalling those I don't use a lot. I also unsynced all my music and photos because I wanted a smaller backup and quicker restore process. This way I get back the important apps, my email accounts will be restored as will be my Favorites in the Phone app and my text messages. I use Office 365 which is hosted Exchange from Microsoft for my business email and Outlook.com for my personal accounts so as soon as these accounts will be restored all my email and contacts will sync to my phone again and there is nothing I will have to do here to get all of that back. OK, good luck with your 5S, it's unbelieveable fast and everything seems to happen instantly. Oh, you are also asked to set up Touch ID during the initial setup. You can choose to do so later, but I did it and I used my right thumb. It asked me about 10 or maybe more to put my thumb on the sensor, it's a good idea to rotate it slightly and put different areas, just the tip, a bit further back etc. It will tell you when it took enough readings and that too seems to work extremely well and it's super fast. Lastly, I just received a call and I picked it up with a 2-finger double tap. I put the phone to my ear and to my delight I had no issues like I did on my 4S with the call going to speakerphone or switching back and forth. So far I couldn't be more pleased with this phone. Regards, Sieghar -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Traci Duncan Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 9:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Verizon iPhone 5/5s users Hi all, I'm excited to announce my iPhone 5s should be arriving today. This is my first 4g/lte device. Does the sym card come already installed? Was the set up process fairly straight forward? I read the directions found here: http://businessportals.verizonwireless.com/support/how_to_use/iphone-5-upgra de.html and they look pretty easy. Any tips to go along with those instructions? :) This isn't my first set up, but like I said, my first 4g/lte device. Fingers crossed, I'm mighty excited! Off to back up my device and back up my Mac for good measure. ;) Traci -- 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. 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