IPhone 3GS becomes sluggish after a few hours

Hi,
have my 3GS since one month now (it's a week 31) and now experiencing the problem that after some hours of usage/standby the iPhone becomes slugglish. This means that i.e. after pressing the home button to wake it up from standby it takes the phone about five seconds to turn the screen on. Using the iPhone is much more slower as well. When putting the iPhone back to sleep mode it will again take about five seconds when waking it up the next time.
I can fix this by rebooting the phone and the system will stay fine for about 24 hours. Then the error comes back. Having this since two days now. There was no software installed or updated since then.
Anyone experiencing similar issues?
Thanks

Thanks. However, I have never done so in the past and did not experience the problem.
BTW: Maybe other users are having the same problem as well, just found his here on the board: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2147538&tstart=0
...and in another forum: http://modmyi.com/forums/general-iphone-chat/674171-home-button-lockscreen-delay .html
At least the ones from the other forum are having problems with connecting to wifi in those situations as well.

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