Iphone 4 IOS 5.0.1 will not switch on

My battery went flat 2 nights ago, so as usual I went and charge the phone and went to sleep. When I awoken the next day, when I switch on my phone it asked me to configure my phone by sliding to unlock it. Once I unlock the phone it gave me the connect to itunes logo with a USB cable. As soon as I unplugged the power cable, the phone completely went dead unable to switch on.
I went and connect the phone to my computer (Windows 7, using itunes 10.5.3) my phone went into recovery mode, and itunes returned me this details regarding the phone.
name : iphone
capacity :n/a
software version :
n/a serial number : n/a
I went and click the recover button, it reboots the phone when trying to verify and then went back to recovery mode. Itunes then said they were not able to proceed to recover the phone and returning the error message (21)
I tried doing hard reset, by holding the on/off button + home for over 15 minutes nothing shows up. Tried to went into DFU mode and restore answer came back as the above. My warranty just expired about a month ago, and I have never jail break this phone. I went to the reseller and they told me I am required to pay another additional USD250 to get it replaced. Please advise as I'm running out of ideas here. Thanks.

Thank you for your response. But unfortunately there's no Apple Genius Bar here in Malaysia. Only resellers, which I feel that they are charging way too much in the first place.

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