Phone resets on it's own...

3GS. I've been very careful with it - no drops, no hacks, no jailbreaks or unauthorized apps or anything like that.
It seems to lock up often, and I have restored it from backups before. I have had a time when it wouldn't reset or start and I had to hard restore it from itunes holding down the home key.
Today, it just restarted on it's own, randomly. It was not plugged in and was just sitting in front of me and the apple sign appeared. Nothing happened but the apple sign, and after several minutes, I held the top/sleep button down and held the home button down until it reset. It came back on normally after that.
My questions...
What the heck is going on? Is there something wrong with my hardware? Is this a sign of problems to come with my phone?
Should I trade it in? Can I? It's a 3GS.
Thanks.

IF you often see this issue, which means the frequency is high, you should swap it, otherwise suggest keep it since this such case is SW related if the frequency you encounter is very low...

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