What on Earth has happened to my iPhone 4, and how do I fix it?

While walking home this evening, I was listening to music on my iPhone 4 (not the 4S).
Suddenly, the music stopped.  I took the phone out of my pocket and it was dead.  "Must be the battery", I thought, "But that's odd, because it still had a bit of charge left."  I took it home and plugged it in to charge. 
Since then it has not done anything.  It did not come on (with the battery symbol) as usual when plugged into the charger.
I have tried a variety of standard things, including holding the home and sleep/wake button for all kinds of different time periods, plugging it into my macbook pro and holding the home button, rebooting the macbook pro with the phone plugged in, even just leaving it plugged into the macbook and hoping that it will eventually come on, but nothing.
The macbook pro will not recognise the phone, so I am unable to do anything to it through that, and the blasted thing won't turn on.
What can I do?
I got the phone on a contract from 02, but it's a "re-conditioned" phone, which means it did not come direct from apple, but was returned to 02 within 14 days by a customer, checked, re-packaged and sent out again.
For the first few months it gave me no problems, but recently it has frozen a couple of times.
If I take it to an apple store/apple affiliate store (our town has a "Stormfront", but not an actual apple store), will they help me?
This is such a frustrating thing.  My phone has so many different pieces of important information on it.  Most of it will be in my iTunes backup, but a lot of more recent things are not!
Help!

Another article for device not recognized: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1591
However, if you call 1 800 263 3394, they will set up an appointment for you so that you just walk in, swap device, and walk out!
Or try :   expresslane.apple.com to set up an appointment with someone on the line and they can create your appointment, or you can create your own I believe that way your in tere for 10 mins max, as opposed to quite some time!
Always looking to be a help in some way that I can
Sincerely -W1$C

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