Iphone 3gs 'other' space ?

i bought a 3gs（hongkong version) 16GB three days ago. when i connect the itunes, i found my 3gs has about 200MB 'other' space.
then i restored to factory, it still has 190MB 'toher' space in it(did not do anything).
PLease help me, does my 3gs have something wrong?
thanks for everyone.
Message was edited by: haihailover
Message was edited by: haihailover

thanks guy.
i' m Chinese. in china there has a UNICOM IPHONE 3GS.
my two friends buy the unicom 3gs, and when they connect to the itunes it haven't 'other' space or only 50MB. their 3gs are also 3.1.3 system.
for this reason. i am a little worried.
yeasterday i call the apple 800, they told me: maybe the version is different so the hardware maybe different.

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