how to activate iphone 5 without sim card

You need a sim to activate it. Read

Using iphone as ipod

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3406

You need a SIM card to activate the phone - you can even get a used/deactivated SIM.

After you activate your phone you can set up imessage to work with an email address only. It will continue to say wiating for activation under imessage because the phone does not have a phone number associated with it but imessage will still work with the email address

Well the subject to your post asks if it is possible to activate without a sim. Do you have a sim in the phone?

you need a sim card to do what you want to accomplish. End of story. Read this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3406

Yes, I understand you. Do you understand that you NEED a SIM card to activate?

please read the article I linked you to. It answers all your questions.

Yeah just read the link I posted in the first response to your question

I think you need a SIM card to do this...

Yep that is what I said at the outset where I said the following:

You need a sim to activate it. Read

Using iphone as ipod

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3406

It was a joke, Ocean... lol.

TJBUSMC1973 wrote:

It was a joke, Ocean... lol.

Really? You need a SIM? 😉

me too....