Two iphones on one account?

I purchased an iphone for each of my children. Set them up each with a separate apple account and itunes acct. (Same credit card). But, can I set them both up under the same account - so that if I buy a song for one they both can use it?

I don't think you need to (unless the kids have different logins on the Mac and can't see each other libraries).
With iTunes purchases, you get up to 5 devices so music and apps should all play happily on each other's devices.
My iTunes library has music, video & app purchases from 3 different accounts (mine current account, an older account I had back in the day, and my wife's account) living happily together and we can sync everything between our iPhones just fine.
I can't remember if I ever had to authorize anything, if I did it was so painless that I don't even remember doing it...

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Two iphone on one account.

I have two iphone do I have to open two account? Can I have it on one computer.Or I have two computer,do I have to seperate

Yes, you can have both on one computer. I also have 2 iPhones connected to one PC. That was a pretty easy set up at the first time I connected the phone to PC. Just give the iphone different name, such as my iPhone or Tom's iPhone.

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You can sync as many iphone /ipods/ipads as you like to one computer/library.
Plug one in. Select what you want to sync. Sync. Unplug.
Plug the other in. Select what you want to sync. Sync. Unplug.

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I have two iPhones under my Apple ID (mine and my wife's). I am unable to set up my wife's iPhone using iMessage using her email address. It alway says "unable to verify" or "already in use" Since her email address is unique to her, there is no way it is already in use. Need help, thanks!

OK here is the official way this works...
1. You can setup alternate emails and register them Apple and your icloud/me account is what is used to verify everything. Basically Apple becomes the DNS service of that email address to route imessages to the correct device.
2. The reason you see a message about the email address already being registerd is my guess you have used that email address to register facetime on a device that is not a phone (ad phones are usually linked by phone number). Since my primary personal email is on my imac facetime and my work email is on my macbook pro I could not use these two email addresses for imessage as Apple is using them to route facetime requests to those unique PCs. So I had to use my mobileme/icloud email address with my phone and ipad.
3. Now for my wives iphone and ipad we attached to my mobileme/icloud account but then used her personal email to be the additional address and then you can delete your mobileme/icloud if you put it in there already.
So no imessage requests to my phone/email go to both my ipad and iphone and my wive's ipad and iphone is unique to her phone and pesonal email for her imessage needs.
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...I'm a tech who has been drinking Apple kool-aid for about 5 years...

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My wife and I just bought iPhones. We are trying to share some stuff and keep other stuff separate, here's what we're looking for.
1. We use two different Macs with different emails.
2. We are using a single Mobile Me account to sync our address book and calendar so that no matter where we are, we know if its okay to schedule something that won't conflict.
3. My Mac has all the iTunes media and apps that we both want to use.
Under those conditions, how do I sync both iPhones?
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E-mail does not sync with your computer. Iphone has it's own e-mail client, just like your computer. E-mail does not come from a computer - the e-mail client retrieves it from the server just as your computer does.
Mobileme can sync over the air so you do not need to plug in to sync contacts and calendars.
You can sync itunes content (music/vids/apps) from your computer or if the computers are both authorized for the same itunes account, then you can sync to you own machines ( you will need to put the media on both machines).
My wife and I sync our iphones to the same machine ( even though we have two). All contacts and calendars are synced over the air via mobileme, and we share all music and apps.

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Welcome to the Apple community.
Ideally you should each have your own iCloud account, providing you with your own contacts, calendars etc, not doing so will result in exactly what you have experienced. The contacts have likely been lost due to the options you have chosen at the login stage on each device.
Unless you have the missing contacts in a backup file, they won't be recoverable unfortunately. You can add them manually to the contracts that already exist and continue to share the iCloud account if you wish, but I suggest that you each have your own iCloud account.
Note, you can each have your own iCloud account, but continue to share an iTunes account for purchases of apps, books, music, TV shows etc etc.

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2 iphones with one account

Forgive me, I know this question has been asked before but I can't find the info I need. I am going to get a 3g iphone when it comes out. But I may keep my current iphone. can two iphones be used on one account? thanks for your help.

You can have two iphones on one computer and you can choose entirely different items (playlists, songs, podcasts,etc) to sync with each iphone.
You can also have two iphones on one AT&T account, but you do have to pay for the unlimited data plan on each - if you want all the features (i.e. visual voicemail) to work on each iphone.
As far as itunes(mobile - iphone app), If you want to buy music from both iphones itunes application, I'm not sure how that would work, sorry. But if your not planning to use each phone to purchase music - no issue. Maybe someone knows about this issue.
Hope this helps.

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i want to reserve two iphones under my account when iphone5 comes out, can i do that?

No one here knows especially since the iPhone 4S was released less than 6 months ago and Apple has not announced an iPhone 5.
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creating a separate user account in windows will do it.
But remember that connecting to a new iTunes library will erase your phone during the first sync.
So backup manually and transfer your purchases, set up at least one contact and event on the computer before you sync. After the phone got set up, use the manual backup to restore from.
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The easiest least complicated way to keep your info and her info seperate and not worry about things is to take advantage of user profiles on your computer (in XP)...so each of you log into XP with your own accounts, thus iTunes (and any other software like mail, etc) all have your own settings.
Otherwise, you will have to watch which account is logged into iTunes Store (click store and see what name is up top right in case you both have different accounts)...and make sure you are logged in with the right account before syncing. iTunes does know the difference between your phones so each can setup different settings of what to sync to, but your library on your computer will be mixed unless you do what I said first, use different profiles (user logins) for XP.

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