Moving to a new iPhone without iTunes

My friend just bought a new iPhone. He had been syncing it for awhile to his old PC, which is now just dead in the water. He got a new iPhone and wants to move his data (contacts etc) to the new iPhone, without iTunes.
He doesn't have an iCloud account yet, so I *think* he can just make an iCloud account on his old iPhone, turn on syncing, then go to the new iPhone and do the same.
If not, then I have a Mac with iTunes. I can make a new user account for him, and then plug in the iPhone and I *think* backup the iPhone to iTunes.
Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

You cannot get back all content, but you can get some. See this tip: https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-3141 combined with this: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2109

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