IPhone 4, unusable as phone because screen freezes

My iPhone4 dropped a call this afternoon and the screen locked on me. Now when I receive or make a call I cannot use the phone because the screen is frozen. I came home and did a restore with the newest operating system, but it did not fix the problem.

Since I last wrote about my phone, I have gone twice to the Genius Bar.
I was asked if I had done a complete restore to factory settings. I went home and did that, but the problem remained. My phone would make and receive calls, but there was no sound and when I tried to answer a call or end a call the screen would freeze.
My second trip to the Genius Bar, I described this problem and they gave me a new phone on the spot saying that since I had done the recommended software fixes, it was a hardware problem. My phone is about three months old so it was under warranty.

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