IOS5.0 Deleting photos is slow on iPhone4

When deleting photos on iPhone4 after the IOS5.0 update, it is very slow. The delete process hangs for six or seven seconds on each picture.
Is anybody else seeing this behavior after the IOS5.0 update?? All the features work fine and nothing else seems slow.

Same issue here.
My wife was complaining that her new 4S takes 10 seconds to delete a picture from the camera roll. (her iPhone 1 '2G' was instant!)
Just took a look, and its true, it just locks up for 10-11 seconds.
Also tried this on my 3GS, and that also pauses, only about 5 seconds, but the pause is now there.
I rebooted my 3GS, and the pause is gone (i guess it will come back after some chain of events happens) - anyway, pleased with myself, i restarted the 4S, tried deleting a picture, and it was instant !!!
Told my wife i'd fixed her phone.. she tried.. and it took 11 seconds again! i tried.. 11 seconds again!
After a reboot, the 4S seems to work with the first delete, then all others take 11 seconds to delete after that.
3GS worked a little longer after a reboot.. but now is back to taking about 4 seconds to delete.
both phones are on 5.0.1

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I am new to all this stuff....as Grannies are....but here goes...
I just got an iPad2 with the iOS5 ( the only apple device I have ). I have had it 8 Days....
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I have managed to find a fix for my problem .
I have discovered the following…..To Delete Photos from Camera roll.
If when you open “Camera” on your iPad , you have photos on your camera roll that you haven’t put into an album directly from the camera roll in “ Photos” then you can Delete them as the User Guide states eg. …Open Camera … tap the thumbnail box in the lower L/H bottom corner and a bigger display of thumbnails of your photos will appear….tap the box with the arrow in it on the upper R/H side….then tap on the thumbnail , this will put a blue circle with a white tick in it on the lower R/H corner of that thumbnail and the Red Delete button will come alive…..tap the delete button and you will get a drop down saying …Delete Photo…tap this and the photo will disappear and it will also disappear from the little thumbnail box in the lower L/H corner….do this with all photos …then tap Done……you will now have an empty camera roll.
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This may be a bit long winded as an article but I hope it can help someone else to sort out their problems, as I have now done, and after looking at many sites for help info there appears to be quite a bit of confusion out there with these apps.
Happy Now...
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