Temperature WARNING - iPhone 4!

Arghhh!
I got a phone call on my iPhone 4 and then it cut the connection off and displayed an message: http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/files/2009/07/ht1871_1.jpg
temperature
iphone needs to cool down before you can use it.
It's the first time iv come across this error! and the worst thing was - the iPhone wasn't even HOT, in fact it hadn't been used for over 7hrs!!!
this just better not be a new batch of errors!

This Temperature warning is why my iPhone 4 now has a shattered back panel.
It was sitting on my cool glass front room table not doing anything for 70 minutes (I know this as I'd been watching England Vs Germany) when Germany hit their 4th goal. I picked up the phone and went outside for a smoke. Noticed that when I tried to unlock the phone it had the Temperature error so I took a screen grab, found a shady spot next to me and popped it down to cool off on a cool bit of concrete ledge I was sat on.
about a minute or so later, without me touching the phone it slid off the ledge falling about 2.5 feet onto the concrete floor, resulting in the back glass shattering.
What I don't get is why it had overheated? I make sure I go into my multitasking option and remove anything running every couple of hours. I know nothing was running at the time and I know that if this 'overheating' issue had not have occurred I would not have popped the phone on the side and it would not have made it's merry way from the centre of the ledge it was comfortably (and safely) say on, to being layed on the floor, shattered.
Well, the issue took my mind off the crushing England destruction, but now I am awaiting Apple's reply about a repair, failing that, my banks 'Purchase Protection'.
Temperature rubbish. What a joke.

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