IPhone 4 freezes, need to reset to fix

When I purchased my iPhone 4 (under contract) it would freeze when either trying to make a call, or when I hang up.
IOS 5 seemed to fix that but now my phone will randomly freeze once of twice a day.
I have updated to IOS 5.0.1 but still have the problem.
Sometimes the phone will unfreeze itself after a few minutes, or I will have to reset the phone.
Every now and then it will also turn itself of and not power on until it has been plugged in for at least 30mins, even though the battery is over 50% full.
I make sure all apps are closed once I have finished using them.
Is this a common issue and is there a fix?
I don't want to have to go to the apple store and having them tell me there is nothing wrong with the phone because is wont 'freeze for them'
Thank you.

I'm experiencing the same problem and I'm very frustrated. This is my first iPhone but I'm sure it's not because of anything I did wrong. Here are just some of the incidents:
* I was watching a podcast and it locked up and showed the apple logo. Forced to do a hard reset
* I exported a video from iMovie and after that I tried going into the facebook app and I got kicked out to the home page. Tried that a couple of times with the same result. Then I got the black screen with the apple logo and the spinning icon thing. Forced to do a hard reset
* Today this happened about 3 times. I would be in any app (or even the home scren). It would go to the black logo screen. I click the wake/sleep button and I'm taken to the ulock screen. So, the phone does not get locked up but something strange is happening. I'd eventually get to the home screen but the icons are scattered all over the place and I can't 'touch' anything. I'd click wake/sleep and eventually the phone would appear to have recovered and functioning fine. But after a few clicks it will eventually freeze completely.
So, in 4 days, I've had to reset it about 2-3 times each day. This is my first iPhone and I'm very disappointed and frustrated at this point. And I thought that the reception/antenna issues were going to be risky enough! I bought the phone from an AT&T store. If I go to the Apple store and they determine that I need a new phone, will they make me go back to the AT&T store or will they be able to handle it there?
Thanks,
Jack
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