How do I see what the usage ACTUALLY is on my iPhone????

In iTunes, the oppressively imposed way of managing my iPhone, I see the bar chart at the bottom showing usage.
It's a 16 gb iPhone 4, running IOS5. I have something called "Other" which is using up 3.2 gb of storage space on my iPhone. What the **** is "other"???? Also, the music library grew from 4 gb to 6 gb without my changing anything????? I can't find anything to delete to free up this space. Why can't I see a Finder view of the various files and assets on the iPhone??? the previous iPod's would show up as regular mounted volumes but I have to manage the iPhone through a hidden software interface black box. This is like the Microsoft approach to doing things. What is this crap?????

Yes, I can see that, but they are general headings, does not include any info for photos and videos captured using the iPhone camera or anything saved under Photos. It's a limited user experience that is lacking in utility and usefulness.
What the iPhone really needs is to be opened up so that it can be browsed, as a mounted volume from the Mac, without having to rely upon very poor quality proprietary software applications like iPhoto in order to manage simple things like photos and videos. The old iPod was a little better that way. Most ordinary cell phones are a hundred times better in that regard. Bluetooth on the iPhone serves no purpose except for hooking up accessories, like mic/earphones. There is no way to transfer a photo TO the iPhone without sending over email or some other online, over-the-wires method, in order to view other photos on the iPhone. Any cheap cell phone nowadays with Bluetooth will allow easy transfer of photos, mp3's and videos in a easy to use Finder experience.
I find this oppressive restriction imposed by Apple on these devices to be very poor show.
This is much too much like the tightly controlled Microsoft user experience.

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