HT4972 I no longer have a PC or Mac.  How can I upgrade to iOS 5?

I no longer have a PC or Mac.  How can I upgrade to iOS 5?

Your iPhone can be updated to the latest firmware in an Apple Store  but you would lose all the information off your phone.
If your happy to do this, may I recommend backing up to iCloud once you are on iOS 5.1.1 and then you will be able to perform future upgrades over wifi and restore your phone from your iCloud account should you ever need to in the future.
The other option might be to back your iPhone upto a friends computer without syncing and this might be the only way you could restore everything back onto your updated phone.
Also download apps to back up your contacts online so that you can restore them also after the update.
May I suggest Contacts Backup app which enables you to back up your contacts by email, Dropbox or via USB.
Hope this helps.

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