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I always thought iCloud was a paid service could I back them up for free? Basically enable within iPhone the iCloud, then enable it while syncing and that's it?
I have not messed with iCloud once.
If you have an iPhone have you not already got an iCloud account?
If you have, then sign in with your iCloud account on your iPad when you get it. (You will be prompted to when you boot it up for the first time). From then on all your stuff in your calendar, messages, mail and photo apps sync across all devices (including other stuff like book marks on safari, as long as you have turned iCloud on in your settings for each appropriate app).
It sounds complicated until you use it, it's incredibly easy and makes owning multiple Apple devices an absolute pleasure.
And iCloud is free, unless you require more than 5GB backup space.