3GS Dead by overheating

My 3GS died the other day. I was uploading a video to youtube. While it was compressing the video the screen went black.
First I thought it was a severe battery issue, but no amount of charging has brought it back.
My only guess is that the compression overheated some chip and it died.
Has this happened to anyone else?
My big problem right now is that I'm in Europe for a month. I bought it just in time for my trip and won't be able to exchange it until I'm back in the US in 3 weeks time. I did bring my old 2G with me and am using that with the 3GS sim card.
Hopefully Apple will exchange it without a problem when I'm back.
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have you tried any possible way of rebotting the phone. power button, stuff like that?
As for exchanging your phone, you won't have a problem unless they find that your pad for water is activate or if it looks like your phone took a big drop. If neither of those have happend you should be fine.

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Prior to getting this upgrade and error #40 issue the phone was never jailbroken and had no attempts at being jailbroken.
It was the constant reoccurance of this issue and that nothing was working from any forums that I did attempt it once after everything had been tried. However, it did not stick and it's in the same state as when we first recieved the itunes error 40 straight after the upgrade attempt and it has not booted up since.
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This re-chargable battery includes the "made for iPhone' Apple certification?
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