IPhone 4 slide to unlock freezes

When I slide to unlock the slider itself freezes at the far side for around 10 seconds before getting to the Enter Passcode screen or it freezes after entering the passcode and I just get the wallpaper for around 10 seconds before all of the apps appear.
It started intermittently a few days ago and has become increasing common so that it's near enough every time I unlock now. Does any one have any ideas what's wrong and how to fix it?
I have a 4 week old iPhone 4 (32GB) running iOS 5.0.1.

HI,
I have done more troubleshooting, and the results are positive so far - no more freezing!
@SimplyPostive reported something unique: that the problem only happened while in the 3G network and not when in a wifi network.  I tested this and I had similar results.  The freezing only occured while I was on the 3G network and not when I was on a wifi network.
This caused me to think that something might be causing the phone to freeze while connecting to the 3g network.... or maybe there is a data packet lingering around that is causing the issue.  Whatever it is, I decided that I'd reset "network settings" only. 
I reset network settings and the problem has gone away.  Now, regardless whether I'm on 3G or wifi, the phone no longer freezes during swipe to unlock as reported in this thread.
I'm going to re-install my grand theft auto game and bring down my availabe space to 730 mb again.  Hopefully it all works as expected.  If it doesn't, I'll report it, else it's all good to go.
good luck.
c.

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