Getting iPhone on Wednesday.  Question about initial setup

Hi,
Tomorrow I should be receiving a reconditioned iPhone. The question I have is it possible to setup the iPhone and not have it copy all your address book from MS Outlook and your favorites from MS IE?
I don't want to load it down with information that is not needed.
Thanks,
Al

While you can avoid downloading all your contacts, you will find that the contacts take up about 1% of your 8GB. So I recommend installing the contacts and trying it out. You can always take them off at the next sync.
I have over 2000 contacts by the way.

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