My iphone 3g suddenly started behaving abnormally

My iphone 3g yesterday suddenly started behaving abnormally.The home key was not working and i could not hear when some one calls me. Also if i open an icon/ application it will not come to the home screen. als owhen i connect it to pc neither the pc/itunes was recognising the device. i tried to do all resets and finally i chose the option erase iphone and now it is showin only an apple icon only. Wat should i do now?

Thank you for your reply....I actually managed to get it showing in itunes....but couldn't open the phone at all....so took a gamble and got itunes to restore my phone back to factory settings ! which it did...then it restored all the backed up info.....so far so good !!!! phone seems to be working !!! no red lines...! but am still going to take it to the apple store and get them to check it out.......Oh....I lost all the apps I'd bought.....although their on itunes....my phone won't ake them back ??? I can't sync them in ? thanks again though.

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