Part of screen freezes and doesn't respond to touch.

My iphone 3gs occassionally freezes at the bottom part of my screen where it can be unresponsive to touch resulting in not being able to end a call, type some letters on the keyboard, or select other functions that appears on the bottom part of the screen. I have had the phone swapped 3 times now and I still get this problem. When I reboot the phone it seems to resolve itself, but this is very annoying. I have never dropped any of the phones. Can anyone help?

Have you tried restoring the iPod?
No, but I shall try that today - thanks for the advice.
C

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