can i use an old iphone as an ipod without a sim card?

yeah you just might need to have a sim card in it so that it does not continue to give you the no sim card message but on of the other people can give you a better answer to this question

here you go read this page these guys have more info

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3060431

http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3406

Just borrow a SIM card from someone else's phone or get a disabled one.

you dont need a sim card, unless youve reset the phone back to factory settings, but if you have you can go to an apple store and have them start it up with a dummy sim.

Yes, you can use the iPhone as an iPod as many have said, you just need a sim card for the phone's carrier. So if the phone was used actively through At&t, us an At&t sim card. It does not need to be an active card. They sell sim cards for any carrier on ebay for a little over $2.00 all day long. Or you can stop and get one from the At&t or Verizon store etc...The one thing I did not see mentioned in these posts and it confused me when I first used my iPhone as an iPod. Is that you will see "No Service" in the upper left next to the WiFi symbol. That just means no cell phone service.

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