iPhone capacity question

[rockheadjoe]

I'm planning to purchase the iPhone 4S sometime soon. I was leaning toward the
16gb model for budget purposes, however a recent review from a very legitimate
source stated the 4S operating system is a resource hog, taking up a good 7 gigs
of space, so to absolutely go with at least the 32gb model. I wasn't planning to
do this.

This will be my first iPhone, coming over from a Blackberry, so I wanted to get
some opinions from knowledgeable Apple afficianados if the 16gb capacity would
suffice. I don't really plan to keep a lot of music or videos on the phone -
mainly using it as a phone, surfing the web, for some game and information apps
and storing some photos.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.

Thanks!

 

[verwon]

With apps, email and etc. installed, I've still got 12.8 of 16 left, so no, it doesn't use up 7, just for the OS.

 

[verwon]

Starting capacity upon activation was 13.6