Moving iphone 4 content to an iphone 6, while keeping the old phone

I currently use an iPhone 4. I am getting an iPhone 6, and plan to bring all my apps and settings from the old phone to the new one.
I expect that the process is simply doing a backup of the old, and then choosing to use the backup as for a "restore" on the new phone when i first activate it through iTunes. That doesn't worry me and is not my question.
My concern is that I plan to keep the old phone also. So my plan is to give the new iPhone 6 a different name before doing the restore from the iPhone 4 backup. Will that work?
Also - as I go forward will it be a problem to keep synching both phones using the same instance of iTunes and the same Apple ID? I am guessing that I may run into some app updating issues with updates that can't run on the old iOS in the iPhone 4 (it cannot be updated to iOS 8). I suspect I'll just need to delete such apps when the time comes.
Can anyone give some insights on how this will work? I am guessing a lot here - and I'd rather know before I charge forward.
Thanks.

Your expectations are correct. You certainly can give the iPhone 6 a different name. iTunes will keep the two phones distinct. Apps which will not run on the iPhone 4 iOS level will not be loaded to it.

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