I sent the above Lenovo Tab to Technofied Vision, a repair shop for tablets, laptops, etc for evaluation. They asked for a deposit of $35 to check and diagnose and found a faulty motherboard and gave me an estimate of $150 to repair. I gave them the go ahead and after 3 days, I got notification that the Tab was repaired and the final bill at $120 ($85 after netting out the $35 deposit, plus GST).
I suspect Lenovo knew the problem was most probably the motherboard - which implied that it was a known defect for the Tab. Am very disappointed that Lenovo did not give me any feasible option viz trade in for a refurbished Tab (which I am quite sure they have stocks of), or repair with an old motherboard, etc, etc. But what they did was quote me a unreasonably high repair cost which was not worthwhile at all - indirectly telling me to throw away the defective Lenovo and buy a new one. I am also shocked that they dont have any concern or pride in the product quality - a $400 device failing after 2 years use!
My first experience was getting a LENOVO Tab from one of the IT Shows a few years ago.
Back then I just lost my Xperia Z3 Tablet Compact, and my Xperia Tablet Z showing signs of failure.
Needed a tablet in conjunction with a tracer map for playing Pokemon GO (back then the game doesn't have a tracker telling me where the nearby monsters were. You were basically running around blind)
So went to this booth under the Red Bean group, misleading (aka wrong info. What do you expect from a bunch of Chinese?) specs nevermind, my fault for not researching about it beforehand.
My greatest disgusts were:
Tried to register the product via the IMEI number from the sticker behind the tablet and box, INVALID.
Worst thing is, noticed whenever I launched/closed an app, or change app, the whole screen turned into a popup ad.
At first I thought it was because of the tracker apps. Then it happened to official popular apps which shouldn't at all.
Did a little digging and realized this was a known issue
https://www.pcworld.com/article/288...re-that-hijacks-https-traffic-on-new-pcs.html
https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Lenovo-Android-based-Tablets-and/Pop-Ups-when-opening-Apps/m-p/4025431
to name a few. Managed to solve the popups by installing antivirus apps into it.
I believe this will less likely affect for global sets that you can buy from Challenger, COURTS etc as compared to Export Sets but n'uh uh, I don't think I have confidence in LENOVO products already =(