Use for Original iPhone

I bought an iPhone 4 and now have an original iPhone gathering dust.
A friend is thinking of getting an iPod Touch and using Skype or some other VOIP system and giving up her cell phone. She has a fear of cellular radiation and she's looking to cut her phone bill.
I offered her my original iPhone to give it a try. Personally I don't think skype alone on an iPod Touch will satisfy her phone needs, and trying it out on my old iPhone would prove/disprove my theory.
What if anything do I need to do to make the old iPhone useable for her? Do I pull the chip out or leave it in?
What's the latest iOS the original iPhone can use?

Group 2B, in which the WHO categorizes EMF as "possibly carcinogenic", also includes things such as orange oil, pickled vegetables, talc-based body powder, titanium dioxide (recommended by many medical organiations as a safer sun block), nickel (the metal), and coffee. Rather a "catch-all" of possibilities, and while not to be dismissed, not exactly a damming statement. If you read the full monograph, it says:
"The evidence was reviewed critically, and overall evaluated as being limited among users of wireless telephones for glioma and acoustic neuroma, and inadequate to draw conclusions for other types of cancers. "
The conclusion means that there could be some risk, and therefore we need to keep a close watch for a link between cell phones and cancer risk."
This WHO statement is therefore only a statement of concern and a call for additional study, not a definite statement that cellphone use causes cancer.
It's certainly her choice what risks she wishes to avoid. We all make such choices regularly, about all sorts of risks. But an iPod touch is not likely to be much less of a risk, if any, that a cellphone,
Regards.

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