Giving g4 to spouse questions re sync now

I gave my old 3G to him and we rarely sync it, but, I synced it recently to back up in anticipation of giving him my 4G when my
new 4Gs comes and it asked me if I wanted to use my contact changes or his and actually synced a lot of data (notes mostly)
from my phone to his.
How do I make the change over when giving my 4G to him so that when he syncs it won't copy what is on my new phone. I can
erase stuff I don't want on the phone when I hand it over, but, do I need to restore to original and then he syncs it to get what is
backed up from his 3 G?
If I restore it should I sync the new 4Gs first and then restore the the old 4g?
Thanks, I hope this doesn't sound too confusing.
Nanci

I'm sorry I'm not following what your saying.
You have two devices correct
so for example purposes I will say your Phone is phone A and your husbands phone is phone B
Phone A has a username of One
Phone B has a username of Two
When you connect phone A and sync it once to profile "One" everytime you connect the device to the computer it will sync to that profile, you won't be able to sync Phone A to profile "Two" because it has already established a relationship with the One profile.
If you have a new phone come in the picture we will say Phone C,
You can theoretically sync it to either profile One or Two although this is never advised, instead you should create a whole new profile for that specific phone.
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