Im not an electronics expert - so just an entertaining opinion.

I assume this will be a low voltage product and therefore I doubt it is an earthing problem?

I suspect that this is a relatively cheap generic tablet wrapped-up in a cool B&O shell to make the product cost-effective? I think you are seeing a simple MTBF issue which you are on the perceived low-end of that failure rate.

Look at it another way. I believe I see that the MTBF on all my families iPad minis (Mk3 or 4 - not on 5 yet) of 2.5 to 3.5 years.  This is not a niche product with multitudes of units sold compared to B&O's tablets. It does not make it necessarily better despite higher critique and units sold. 

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This is probably an accurate analysis and a seismic shift from B&O of old. Look at the internals of Beograd CD7000. Build quality, PCBs, mechanism, discrete quality components, still is use 30+ years with a little care. Puts you right off their newer stuff.

seethroughyou wrote:

This is probably an accurate analysis and a seismic shift from B&O of old. Look at the internals of Beograd CD7000. Build quality, PCBs, mechanism, discrete quality components, still is use 30+ years with a little care. Puts you right off their newer stuff.

From what I hear, old B&O stuff used to fail very regularly. I think the difference is that it could be easily and cost-effectively repaired as it was a custom electronics PCB with age-old components (wheels, springs, levers, capacitors, switches etc....), all cleverly put together to look futuristic, slimline and modern.

Unfortunately, modern digital circuits (boards) are now generic and manufactured in batches before being superseded in designed-in obsolescence. They are never the same from one model to the next and can rarely be retrofitted. once the manufacturing run is done....that is it. EOL unless you have a very cleaver person who knows how to jimmy a digital PCB to make it work longer.

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What should give you an icy chill down your spine will be the day you and I have to have those two fat ladies looked at. I hope and pray that is in 50 years time when Im dead or at best deaf.

Imagine if that little unsurprising circuit board atop of those speakers which controls the whizzy LED lights for volume fail and it takes down the whole system?

Would that not be fun at all? 

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I had the same issue with flickering screen, managed to get it starting again by draining the battery completely and the charging it again. You could also shut it down manually by inserting a pin in the hole, hole is up to the right next to the base connector if you have the screen facing up. Insert at pin for about 3 seconds and the device turns off. However mine is still in need of a forced firmware update, which needs to be carried out by a service technician and those are harder to find where I live - hate sending it away.