Lenovo A789 Dual SIM phone -anyone have experience of build quality?

Jaxer

I'm looking at getting one of these dual sim handsets from a Chinese supplier. The specs look very good for the price (around £125 delivered) and as Lenovo is a "brand", I'm hoping the quality will be of a good standard.

It's hard to find English language reviews from Google so just wondering if anyone has seen/used one of these?

The specs are :

Basic Information Model Lenovo LePhone A789 Band 2G: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz
3G: WCDMA 900/2100MHz Sim Card Dual Sim Card Dual Standby Service Provide Unlocked Style Bar Color Black Shell Material Plastic
System OS Android 4.0 CPU MTK6577, Cortex A9 dual core, 1.0GHz; PowerVR SGX531 ROM 4GB RAM 512MB
Screen Display Size 4.0 Inch Type TFT, capacitive touch screen Resolution 800 x 480 pixels Screen Color 16000K Colors
Support Format Ringtones Type Polyphonic/MP3 Audio File Format MP3/WAV/AMR/AWB Video File Format 3GP/MPEG4 Image File Format JPEG/BMP/GIF/PNG/GIF E-book Format TXT/CHM/DOC/HTML FM Radio Yes Earphone Port 3.5mm Card Extend Support TF card up to 32GB extended
Data Transfer & Connectivity Data transfer USB/Bluetooth Mobile internet WAP/WIFI
General Camera/Picture Resolution Dual Cameras, front camera: 0.3MP, back camera: 5.0MP
with auto focus, up to 2592×1944 pixels resolution Language English, Chinese Phonebook 500 Message SMS/MMS Input Handwrite/Keypad TV No GPS Yes, built in, support A-GPS and voice navigation JAVA No WIFI Yes, 802.11 b/g Bluetooth Bluetooth 2.0 Gravity Sensor Yes Multi-Touch Yes Dimensions 126.6 × 65.4 × 13.2mm Net Weight(Including battery) 159.5g Other Feature 3G, GPS,WIFI, Bluetooth, Ebook, Email, Messaging,
VPN Services, Google search, wallpapers, calendar,
calculator, clock, tethering & portable hotspot, camera, etc
Package Size 170 x 82 x 69mm Weight 450g Accessories 1 x 2000mAh Battery 1 x 3.5mm Earphone 1 x Data Cable 1 x Charger

gjchester

Given Lenovo's site doesn't recognise the number (both UK and China) I'd suspect Lenovo are not aware they make this....

MillicentBystander

Exactly what I was going to post. If something looks too good to be true and all that....

abynk

I got one and only paid £117.41 including DHL delivey and card charges.
In my opinion it is the best dual sim phone you can buy for that kind of money. Buld quality, call quality is good (early days only got mine yesterday)
http://androidforums.com/android-lounge/73649-best-dual-sim-android-phone-30.html#post4812259

you can find the official china site via (use google translate)

http://uberdeal.ru/wiki/phone/lenovo/a789

Jaxer

That's interesting abynk. Thanks for taking the time to confirm.Can I ask which company you purchased from. Pm is fine if you prefer. Thanks

gjchester

abynk wrote: »

you can find the official china site via (use google translate)

http://uberdeal.ru/wiki/phone/lenovo/a789

Thats a Russian Wiki site. Surely any "official" site will be a lenovo.ru or lenovo cn

It may be a good phone but it's looking like a cheap clone / copy of a brand than a real Lenovo device.

grumbler

Despite having 'wiki' in the url, this site seems to have nothing to do with Wiki.
However, as 'abynk' said in fact, "you can find the official china site via..."
And there are links at the bottom of the page indeed:

Official site Lenovo A789
http://lenovo.com.cn


(And Software for Lenovo A780
http://forum.china-iphone.ru - this is obviously not official)

gjchester

grumbler wrote: »

Official site Lenovo A789
http://lenovo.com.cn

Thats Lenovo's "official" China site but search for A789 on that and you get no search hits suggesting it's not a Lenovo product but someone using the brand name on their own device.

grumbler

You are probably right, and they seem to have deliberately given a link to Chinese site so that no Russian would be able to check anything.

abynk

grumbler wrote: »

You are probably right, and they seem to have deliberately given a link to Chinese site so that no Russian would be able to check anything.

You can use google translate viewing it in any language.
I will never buy a phone from UK market after using two so called Chinese dual sim phones. The one I am currently using is ZTE u960. you can not see that either in European market. I have previously owned HTC magic and HTC desire.

Now a days mobile phones are like computers made out of SOC(system on chip). These chips actual wholesale cost is about 5-6$. The rest is all in presentation like nice screen , cover quality microphone speakers etc.

The only problem buying them from china is if you are not familiar with mods like rooting and removing Chinese crap from the phone. But if you communicate before buying from good sellers they will always make the phone for English users.

http://bbs.lenovomobile.com/forum.php

http://ask.lenovomobile.com/?q-4970.html

grumbler

abynk wrote: »

You can use google translate viewing it in any language.

Go ahead then and show me the page about Lenovo A789. I will use google for translating it.

I will never buy a phone from UK market after using two so called Chinese dual sim phones. The one I am currently using is ZTE u960. you can not see that either in European market. I have previously owned HTC magic and HTC desire.

Now a days mobile phones are like computers made out of SOC(system on chip). These chips actual wholesale cost is about 5-6$. The rest is all in presentation like nice screen , cover quality microphone speakers etc.

The only problem buying them from china is if you are not familiar with mods like rooting and removing Chinese crap from the phone. But if you communicate before buying from good sellers they will always make the phone for English users

There is no anything wrong with some genuine Chinese phones that are not fakes imitating or mimicking well known brands. Nice screen is an essential part of a modern phone. Chinese imitations of iPhone with a cheap resistive(!) screen are not unknown.