IPhone 3G screen problem? Potentially?

I dont know if this is an issue or not, but I've just noticed this.
My iPhone's screen appears to have a border runnign around it of two or three blank pixels. It runs right the way around the edge of the screen. The main image the screen projects shows in full but appears a touch squashed.
I've reboot and hard reset the phone, but no improvement. I've looked in the settings menu but there is nothing for screen/image size.
I havent dropped it and there is no water damage. I noticed the screen didnt look right just after i finished a phone call.
Any suggestions?
EDIT - Incidentally, i'm running on OS 3.0.1
Message was edited by: JudasBlitzkrieg

so is this a problem? perhaps its such a common one that most people think its normal. i've just got my iphone 3G and i'm pretty certain that it didnt have the border when i just took it out of the box, and today that little border appeared! it is really quite noticeable. ive also tried searching for pictures of the iphone to verify its normality and even on the apple website, under the iphone tab, half of the pictures have it and the others dont. for example, take a close look at the introduction to the compass feature on the 3gs, the screenshot showing the compass has the border but the screenshot with the maps doesnt have it!

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