IPhone 5S Unresponsive/Freezing Issues

Evening all, first time poster, be nice
Having issues with my iPhone 5S. I took out a contract with my mobile phone operator at the beginning of January,so the phone is only about 7 weeks old. In these last couple of weeks though, I've had several issues with it. First instance the phone had switched itself off a couple of hours after fully charging the battery, so I knew the issue there was not a "dead" battery. When trying to power on the phone, nothing happened. So, I performed the reset by holding down the wake/home buttons. This worked a treat. Problem solved, or so I thought. Nope! It continued to switch itself off, which kept prompting me to perform the reset again to get it to wake up. It did this for about 4 times over the course of the next 24 hours or so. Was told to restore/back up to iTunes when the phone was working, of which I did. Which cured the problem for about 3 days. One evening, while sending a text message (old school!) the screen all of a sudden went a little duller, and completely froze and nothing would respond to me. I thought "no bother, i'll perform the reset like i have been doing", only trouble is, this time, my phone would not wake at all, and I've had a phone that will not wake up (the phone battery was indicator was showing around 70% at the time of it crashing too, by the way). Does anybody know what the issue may be? There are no Apple stores local to me, I was wondering if there was a home fix for it (again, I've reset it and backed up and restored etc, so that option is null and void for me!), or is it a case of going to the store I got the phone from, and either get a replacement or have it sent off for repair? I would be interested if anyone has had any similar issues with this particular model. I'm running iOS 7.0.5 aswell after updating the phone when prompted.
Cheers!

I was having the same problem and also loosing battery life - it suddenly happened. I went online and saw where someone said to get rid of all the unused apps still sitting there, deleted all the old posts and yea! suddenly the problem has been fixed. Hadn't deleted the unused apps in quite sometime, so obviously draining everything.

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