Iphone 4 turns off and on itself

my iphone 4 turns off itself and then on itself too.

I have been experiencing this problem on 4S for the last two days. I bought the phone BRAND NEW last week, so I'm pretty bummed. I figured I would backup everything on my mac before I did anything else, but every time I clicked backup, my phone would restart and the backup wouldn't complete.
AT&T tech support weren't helpful and turned me over to Apple support. They suggested I erase all data on my phone and start the phone out as "new", as maybe it was just a bad app I recently downloaded/purchased. Luckily for me, I had backed everything up a day before all this crap started happening. So I restarted everything last night, started to bring back some of my apps, but not all of them! One at a time, to really see if it was a bad app. Just my luck though, I haven't finished getting my phone back to where it was two days ago, and my phone just shut down and restarted on its own. Reboot/restart did not work. FAIL.
I have to take it to an Apple store and most likely have it replaced. Hopefully you all have good insurance and/or your phone is under warranty!

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