Ios6 destroyed a perfect iPhone 3GS

I had a perfectly-working iPhone 3GS which I have had for 3 years until last Saturday when I decided to update to io6.
After doing that my iPhone no longer works and Apple Genius have not been able to restart it. They say it is a firmware issue now and the phone needs to be replaced at a cost of 149.
Anyone else facign the same issues?

Are you sure you have an iPhone 3G and not an iPhone 3 because the iPhone 3 are not capable of running anything beyond 4.2
Allan

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