What's taking up so much space on my iPhone?

I have 1.15 gigs of "other" on my iphone. Does anyone know what this category consists of? I would like to find some ways to clear clutter on my phone but am not sure whether what if anything in the "other" category I can modify. Thanks.

lets not forget the big ones : internet and maps cache
I don't believe these are kept in flash, for the reasons I outlined in a recent thread. Briefly, the web cache seems to go away on a reset, the page limit seems like a RAM limit to me, and flash is slow to write to and has a 5,000 write limit on this device.
But I'd love to know for sure. Got any proof, even empirical, that you've seen the "Other" change with cache? Loading or clearing doesn't seem to make any difference that I've seen.
Besides, eight pages of maybe 1/2 MB each? That's not very much.
We need someone with a hacked phone to go look at their /tmp directories.

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