Phone growing more and more lethargic and sluggish

Over the last two weeks my 3G iPhone has grown more and more sluggish.
Simply opening any built-in app now takes forever.
Some apps are so slow to respond that they overlap each other when switch between them or if I get a call or a text message.
I removed most third party apps, cleared caches, restored software, etc, but I'm still finding the phone is creeping along.
Could this be a hardware issue?

Zeebra wrote:
I've now made a habit of rebooting once a day to ensure snappy performance.
If you have to do this, perhaps you should visit the apple store. Its not normal, its not supposed to help, and you are not supposed to have to do this. Given the number of people reporting sim not registered problems after a reboot i'd be a little leery of doing this dail
My phone takes a 5 count (1001, 1002, 1003...) to show anything on the settings screen after I select it from the main screen. Does this if I reboot the phone or not.

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