I need advice on my camera app problem

Hi...
I have been suffering with this camera app problem for the last month and a half of having my iPhone 4S. What happens is that the camera is either working fine and I am able to use it for a short while before it completely shuts down with a purple screen, which results to a black screen and then one day I heard this funny click noise almost like the shutter in the camera was going off at the back.
Now what I am left with is I can not use my camera at all or I can use it for like 5mins before it has a "melt" down.
I asked for advice about a month ago and was told to restart the phone. Back up my phone and restore my software. Well I have now done that twice and that hasn't made a difference.
My phone is only 5months old and I haven't dropped it or anything because most of the time it's on a table or in my hand bag.
So my service provider that I have my contract with has said that they can send it in for repair or they can send it in for testing and see if they can find the fault and if not then they will replace my phone with the iPhone 5 with a pay in difference.
So help me which option is the better one to go for with this problem???
Because I am a photographer and I love having a camera and if I don't have my camera on my I resort to my iPhone.
So HELP please.

thanks very much, that's worked

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