Setting up iPhone 4 and iPad on same iCloud?

[kidscruff]

So, I intend to set up my iPhone 4 as a completely new/clean iPhone, syncing just my phonebook and music from iTunes on my PC. Then letting iCloud do it's job with the cloud-based backup.

Then.... I want to upgrade my iPad to iOS5, and also set this up as a new/clean device (skipping any PC sync), after which I'm hoping my iPhone iCloud data will be downloaded to my iPad [contacts, calender, notes, etc].

But for the iPad setup, I'm confused as whether to select "Set Up as New iPad" or "Restore from iCloud Backup".

Surely if I enter my Apple ID on the 'clean' iPad it will download from iCloud, whether it's "New" or "Restored"...?? Any chance I could risk wiping all of my iCloud data if the iPad is set up as a new device?

Thanks for any help

 

[kidscruff]

Hmmm, maybe the backups are device specific, like in iTunes, so guess it's "Set Up as New" for each device, then sync contacts et al, using the iCloud options.

 

[Berserker]

I've been trying to figure out the same thing, but the answers I found suggest it's device-specific. That'd make sense as restoring an iPad home screen to an iPhone wouldn't work very well.