Iphone 3gs running slow

I've noticed that my iPhone is becoming unresponsive. It's taking longer and longer for apps to start up. Even buttons are slow to record. For example, if I'm doing a search on, let's say Yelp, calling the search function takes up to 10 seconds. Typing my desired search subject also takes long because my iPhone takes a while to recognize that I'm typing. It's like it's momentarily paralyzed. Has anybody seen this? Is this a memory issue? Do I need to reset? Archive and delete old texts?

I have experienced a similar issue on my iphone and my wife's iphone. The issue was slow response when typing and also when opening apps. One app in particular that would freeze up was The Weather Channel app. I experimented with changes several settings, and finally determined a correlation between the Location Services settings and app / iphone responsiveness. I disabled Location services for all apps except for the Map app (go to <Settings><General><Location Services>). I have not experienced any issue since doing that. On a side note however, if you use facebook app and do mobile uploading of pictures or like to check in at places, you will have to enable it to do those things. On occasion when I do that, I simply enable it for that app and then disable it when I am done.

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