Two iPhones, Two iCloud accounts, but still sharing apps

Right now, my wife and I have an iPhone 4 (hers), an iPad, and an iPod Touch.
By the end of this week I am getting an iPhone 4S.
Right now, all of the devices have been hooked up to one Apple ID (mine). So we are able to sync and share all apps, music, photos, etc, between the iOS device and iTunes, then to the other iOS decies.
Once I get my own iPhone, I'd like to keep our contacts and photos separate, but still share our music and apps. Is this possible with iCloud/iTunes now?
I did some searching and couldn't get a clear answer. It seems like I may be able to do this by creating a new Apple ID for me to use on iCloud, but still using the old Apple ID for iTunes purchases. So the setup would look like:
Wife's iPhone: iCloud and iTunes both using same (old) Apple ID
My iPhone: iCloud using new Apple ID, iTunes using old Apple ID
Would this work? I think it might.. but I'm not sure if over-the-air updates would allow for this.
Essentially we want to just share music and apps, and keep contacts and photos separate.
Anyone had to do this? Any help is greatly appreciated!

nategodd wrote:
Does this also mean I want to disable the "Contacts" and "Photos" syncing from within iTunes, so that those only use iCloud?
That's up to you. You either sync contacts & calendars over the air with iCloud or with supported applications on your computer...do not do both at the same time...that will create a mess...one or the other. As for photos, Photo Stream is not the same as syncing photos...read here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4486

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I had the same problem, and decided to look into it last night.
First of all, the solution I would like to have is for Apple to allow for selection of iCloud accounts per application, i.e. Contacts to one, Photo Stream to another. I believe this would be the most straight forward solution for the problem we are facing.
Since this is not an option I came up with a workaround. I was most interested in solving this for Contacts, so this is what I tested for. Now I have all 3 devices with the same contacts.
1) Turn off iCloud for Contacts on all devices. On the device that has the Contacts list that you would like to propagate to all others select to keep the contacts, and on the others select not to keep them.
Note that the current backups still exist on iCloud, so in case something goes wrong you can still turn the iCloud for Contacts back on to get your current Contacts back.
2) In iTunes, sync All Contacts with the phones, starting with the one with the Contacts content you chose to keep.
From this point on, the 3 devices should sync contacts with each other.
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