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The X4 battery bulged out and finally died on me the other week!

Got a fresh 3rd party one from Taobao (says 5000mAh, but who knows?) for 68RMB, and we are back in business with close to 4 hrs battery life in VLC video run down test! (old one was below 2 hrs)

Mostly using external USB keyboard and mouse these days, but amazing that a laptop from 2019 is still doing well with Win 11 and Office 365 these days…

 

… and sorry to see this site slowly withering, but I guess with plenty of main brand laptops available below 500USD (or even 300USD on sale), the lure of the Chinese brands is gone…

[Nilist]

http://lenovo-forums.ru/forum/775-lenovo-tab3-a8-plus-tb3-8703-%D0%BF%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%88%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%BA%D0%B8/

Use Chrome to translate, and you should be able to make heads and tails of it…

[Nilist]

A fairly good selling tablet in China for 7-8″ category.

Bought it from Taobao for RMB 943 or USD 146 at todays rate, where is came with tempered glass protector, decent TPU case with cover, 2A charger + cable and……. Chinese ROM! No GAPPS and so on…

Took some Googleing to find the website for the international ROM. Seems like Lenovo has released it in Russia as well, so managed to download the ROW ROM, and after hours trying to install it with the Qualcomm tool (and almost giving up and sending the damn thing back) it finally worked.

After installation it did another OTA update, so am on the same patch level (June 1st) as the Chinese ROM. Let’s hope Lenovo keeps the updates coming, at lease for awhile (not something I would expect from the likes of Teclast/Cube)

Hardware quality is very good, I would say similar feel as my Nexus 7 which it replaces (finally died after years of good usage)

Have an Asus phone with Snapdragon 625, so expect similar fantastic battery life. Fingers crossed!

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