Cold weather bad for iphone?

I had my iphone on the charging dock last night as usual, but the window was open and fan was on low. it got to approx 40ºf last night. Well I woke up this morning and it wouldnt turn on. Once the phone warmed up it turned on, but was in recovery mode! Then I got to work, plugged it in to itunes and it reset it, and all my data is gone!! All pictures, music, contacts, etc. It's like I just took a new phone out of the box! What gives?

Sportrider12584,
The iPhone product specifications is at this link states:
iPhone Specs:
Environmental requirements
Operating temperature: 32° to 95° F (0° to 35° C)
Nonoperating temperature: -4° to 113° F (-20° to 45° C)
Relative humidity: 5% to 95% noncondensing
Maximum operating altitude: 10,000 feet (3000 m)
http://www.apple.com/iphone/specs.html
Recovery mode indicates that the iPhone wasn't able to complete its startup check. If it has gotten too cold, I would recomend letting it warm up some more, and then reset it before trying a restore.
Restoring the iPhone reformats the iPHone, and reloads the iPhone's firmware and software. Once you have restored the iPhone, it is just like a new iPhone, unless you choose to load synced data from backup. However, information since the last sync is lost. Photos that have not been downloaded to the computer are also lost during a restore.
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