Iphone 4s phone speaker doesn't work

For the last few months (possibly since the last iOS upgrade), the phone speaker on my iPhone 4s has stopped working. I am not talking about the open (handsfree) type speaker, which does work (as does bluetooth speakers and headsets), but the one you use when holding the phone to your ear.
This becomes very annoying, when I receive (or want to make) a call where I don't have a handsfree kit available and don't want everyone else to listen in on the call. It certainly doesn't work when I make outbound calls (I just tried it with voicemail). I always need to enable the full speaker to hear anything at all.
Bizarrely, I took a call last week and it suddenly worked that time, so this seems to be intermittant. The phone was never ever dropped or anything, so I would not expect this to be a hardware issue per se. Any ideas?
I should note that the phone is still within its first year. Would this be covered under warranty?
Cheers.

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