German Apple enthusiast magazine Macwelt recently drew new details out of Apple Germany, and in this article, discuss a few things the iPhone has, and has not.

iPhone hard drive smaller than you may thinkApple has apparently confirmed that the operating system on the iPhone - which is a slimmed down, 500MB version of OS X), will take up part of the hard drive space allotted for iPod songs and videos.

This means that the 4GB version of the iPhone will mean you’ll get 3.5GB of storage, and the 8GB version will get you, the user, 7.5GB of storage.

The question still remains, as to whether Safari’s cache will clear upon exiting, or will it take up even more space from the hard drive? The same could be asked about iPhone contacts, SMS messages, and voicemail messages. Only time will tell.