Memory issues...what is the "Other" that is taking up so much space?

I have a 4 Gig IPhone...and have 303mb of music, 1.3 gigs of video, 25.2 mb of photos, and then there is the 1.61 GB of "Other" ???...what is taking up all this space ? any idea...or anyone else notice that goin on with there Iphone ???...Large amounts of space being taken up by "Other" ???
IMac G5, 17 Inch, rev B & MacBook 2GHz, 2 gb, white, Iphone 4GB   Mac OS X (10.4.1)  

I had the exact same issue. I scoured the forums and the manuals. I had 404 meg of other. After i removed all my mp3's it went to 420. Wierd
So i did a restore. Then I had 14.4.
I opened Google maps and it went to 15.5.
Yesterday I did some mapping with google as well. again the size went up.
My theory is that Google maps caches the maps you use.
However there is no way to clear the google cache.
I also cleared safari cache and that had no affect.
Since then I have been monitoring the other usage. It is still on a steady upward pace. I hope I dont have to reload to reclaim space again.
Maybe this is something they will fix.
Tom

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