"Other" allocated space keeps growing.

This strange Other space is taking over our phones. I keep having to delete important stuff to be able to backup my phone.
Does anyone know what it is?
I was thinking it might be stuff like e-mails but why backup imap mails that allready are on the e-mail server?
Was also thinking some of it could be imessage/sms/mms history. .. But deleting all message history didn't change anything.
Many people are saying its a feature Apple build in to force us to buy more iCloud storage but how ludicrous would that be :-)
Any help you can offer.

I have 4.52Gbytes of Other storage on my 16Gbyte iPhone 4S - well over 25% of available storage. I am a well-informed user of technology, but not a geek! I expect this stuff to work. This is preventing my from having a smartphone that does everythng I want.......and getting a larger phone is not the answer - Apple sorting out this problem with Other storage is the answer.
I don't want to restore the phone as whilst I can reload music apps etc, I will lose data in the apps. Apple please help. There is far more competition in the smartphone space now than when I first purchased an iPhone 3 in 2010.

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Marcos,
I did not try your trick, didn't see your post until after i visited the Apple store. The tech at the genius bar did not know why my "Other" memory had grown so huge. It was over 24GB, which only left me with 1 GB free on my 32GB iPad. I had been loading and unloading video's yesterday thru itunes to try various compression settings. I did not notice the other categrory growing until I tried to load a 3 GB movie file and it told me I was out of memory.
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