Expensive black brick will fly out the window!HELP

My iPhone 4 died today. I was out for a walk had the phone in my pocket ,received e-mail ,managed to read it ,put the phone back in my pocket ,came home,tried to check my games ,surprise ! The phone had a black screen ,thought it ran out of battery so put it out to charge .15 minutes later ,nothing! no apple icon no charging icon no sounds nothing!
So the last 6 hours i've been  trying rebooting,resetting,restoring,cursing and getting more annoyed every minute.
Things i tried so far:
-plugging into charger        No apple ,no battery icon
- reset with home and lock buttons       Does nothing
-plugging in a laptop running vista (on wich it worked for 3 months now) into itunes it was the first sign of life  because it told me it found an iphone in need of restoring and at the same time that i need to update to software version 4.3.3. I asked it to do the restore and update and after a while it gave me an error code 1601 ... 11 times in a row on 2 different computers. And the iphone was recognized as a device every single time it was plugged.
The whole time i havent seen a single glimpse of light from the iphone same way as if it was totally turned off.
- tried uninstalling itunes and everything else related to itunes(bonjour,apple mobile device,safari,quicktime and a few others) and then reinstalling everything again (so latest version itunes 10.2.2) and doing restore again.       No luck.
-tried renaming the apple folder under user/app data and plugging the iphone back into itunes.It behaved like the itunes had never been on this computer but still gave me an 1601 and still no signs of life from my expensive black brick.
As details i can add that it has never been jailbroken,there are no modifications of any kind made to it and everything i tried so far still did absolutely nothing.
And because apple doesnt give more detailed or case by case troubleshooters i hope that someone here, maybe even from apple could help me.
Please assist with some constructive answers or suggestions  -  in order to avoid the expensive black brick from flying out the window.
Thank you.

deggie wrote:
So who does iPhone servicing for them in Romania?
Carriers provide support in Romania.
To the OP, contact your carrier.

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