Same Apple ID forTwo iPhones but Sync Different Google Contacts?

We have two iPhones (4s and 3gs). We want to be able to use the same Apple ID for both phones (so that we can share applications on both) but we want to sync to different contacts. We want to sync one of the phones to Outlook and the other phone to Google Contacts. Is this possible? When we try to change to Google Contacts via the iTunes sync screen for that phone, it shows the warning: "Switching the sync provider will also affect iCloud and any other iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad that syncs with this user account. Are you sure you want to switch the sync provider?"
Is there a way to make this work? Thanks.

If you are asking can you have an Apple ID and an iCloud account then the answer is, yes. With iCloud it will sync all your devices and computers. I'm not going to get into discussing rumours as that's frowned upon. Here's what Apple has published about iCloud Drive: https://www.apple.com/ca/ios/ios8/icloud-drive/

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