How to recover from frozen iPhone that will only show apple logo?

my iphone 3gs has frozen up.  i turned it off for a flight today and when i turned it on to listen to some music the apple logo comes up and never goes away.  also, when i got home to attempt a synch to itunes and to see if a synch would fix the problem, neither the computer (windows) nor itunes will recognize the phone.  i have attempted to reboot it several times, i rebooted the computer, i removed the SIM card and reinserted it and nothing is resolving this problem. any ideas or proposed solutions?

Try a hard shut down by holding the power button down (one on top) and the home screen button down at the same time. After 5-10 seconds the phone should shut off.
After that wait a bit and try and restart.
Hope that works!

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