How do I transfer my purchased apps

How do I transfer my purchased apps & music from iPhone 3G to iPhone 5 & iPad?

As long as the apps are still in the store then you can redownload them directly on both the iPhone 5 and iPad via the Purchased tab in their App Store apps, and (depending upon what country that you are in) you may also be able to redownload your music purchases on them via the Purchased tab in their iTunes store apps.
But if you want the apps content from your 3G and not just the apps, then you will need to go via a computer's iTunes e.g. connect the 3G and do File > Devices > Transfer Purchases to copy the apps and songs etc over to your computer's iTunes, then take a backup of the phone (File > Devices > Back Up) and then restore that backup on the iPhone 5 and/or iPad (restoring will replace all current content on them).
Going forward you don't have to backup to a computer, you will be able to backup to iCloud (the 3G is too old to support iCloud, so you can't back that up to it) :
iCloud : http://www.apple.com/icloud/
How to backup : http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4079
Ideally though you'd have a computer that you could copy your iTunes downloads over to so that you can take a backup copy of them (and you could also back the iPhone and iPad up to a computer). There is no guarantee that any item will remain in the store for future redownloading, the content provider (app developer, record company etc) could remove their item from the store - and ringtones and audiobooks are currently one-time only downloads from the store, so without a computer you won't be able to them from one device to the other. A computer isn't needed, but it would be preferable to have one.
There are also minimum specs that a computer needs to meet to be able to sync an iPhone 5 to - from http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html :
Syncing with iTunes on a Mac or PC requires:
Mac: OS X v10.6.8 or later
PC: Windows 7; Windows Vista; or Windows XP Home or Professional with Service Pack 3 or later
iTunes 10.7 or later

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