N900 - refuses to switch on

I had been using my N900 for 2 weeks without any issues. I never updated the software. Last night I was trying to take a picture and opened the camera lens cover. Accidentally I pressed the power button instead of the camera capture key while trying to take the picture. The display went off. I also found the phone felt warmer than usual. I took the battery out, put it in and tried again. No success. This time the phone did seem to be getting hot. I took the battery out and tried several hours later. No effect - the phone wasn't feeling warm either. I tried both the USB and wall charger - the LED was glowing green, but the phone wouldn't turn on. Now even with the charger connected, the LED doesn't glow. Being a Sunday, I can't contact Nokia Care till tomorrow. Breaks my heart to think the hardware could get messed up so easily. We've had several Nokias in the family but not a high end one like N900. I've tried everything suggested in other forurms (including Maemo). I tried to update software with NSU. The NSU can't even detect the N900 when I connect it to the USB port. Probably suggests the battery is flat. I don't have a 5800 to try and recharge the battery externally - its shocking to know the phone can't charge if the battery is flat. If a laptop can why can't a "smart" phone? Anything else I can try?

I'd like to see what happens when you use a different, charged battery on your phone before I said for certain that it is dead.. but it sounds more like a hardware failure.. and those tend not to occur as a result of firmware bugs or pressing the wrong button..
It could be you have a duff device..
I've heard of loose magnets on the keyboard so it couldn't tell it was fully open.. power buttons that failed so the device would turn on then turn off again.. back cover sensors that couldn't tell the back cover was present (which means the microsd slot won't work) dead LCDs that have a single bright line and not much else.. GPS not working.. *MICROUSB PORTS FALLING OUT OF THE PHONE*
the N900 doesn't have the greatest build quality and things can and do go wrong.. new firmware might not help your device, but if you can charge your battery and then it seems to work again, it might stop it doing this.. if it is a software fault.. which is might not be

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I have received this week my new N900. Everything superb until last Friday when I was in my car listening music through the A2DP profile (stereo bluetooth), received a call, was using also 3G and all this meanwhile the N900 was plugged to the car charger (borrowed from a N97). That was quite usual with my HTC Diamond. But suddenly when I left the car the N900 bricked, so I restarted but since then the only thing I could see is the NOKIA logo with the white wallpaper.
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