Comments on: ASUS MeMo Pad is Official, Features Android 4.1 and 1024 x 600 Display

By: Kevin Rees

Kevin Rees — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:26:00 +0000

yes indeed

By: Michael Perry

Michael Perry — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:46:00 +0000

They already do, but they use the iPad instead. Some of the kids that work at my flatmates restaurant showed my theirs, and told me all about the security locks. These would be an instants where complete control of the OS by a non-user party becomes important, and I’m not familiar with that level of security with googles OS, as all of my devices are rooted, but without jailbreaking my iPod touch, it still remains locked.

By: michael arazan

michael arazan — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 09:11:00 +0000

If these manufacturers are smart they would start pushing these tablets to schools everywhere in loo of school books when the average text book cost $80a piece, and I’d work with book manufacture’s with deals to get the book’s for tablet use and tablet made, would revolutionize the school system and save schools money along with saving trees, everybody wins, even the little kids lugging 40 lbs of books to home and back from school.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 04:47:00 +0000

To be perfectly honest, say a really budget friendly person was buying this for his 9 or 10 year old kid? The $50 saved on this one would probably be worth it, as that kid wouldn’t notice the difference in screen resolution. Just a thought.

By: bc

bc — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 03:28:00 +0000

Nice little throw away for the nieces.

By: TylerChappell

TylerChappell — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 00:47:00 +0000

This is true, but this is aimed at consumers who are very budget-minded. I would say that it is all-around great value. Remember the cost of materials for the Nexus 7 were about $152, so it makes sense for this $150 tablet to have that 1024×600 screen resolution, but I certainly wouldn’t recommend it for anyone who wants to do more than some reading, light-web browsing, email, and Angry Birds, which is exactly the audience this is targeting. At $150, it would be a perfect choice for some parents to buy for their kids that don’t want them playing with their $250-$500 tablet.

By: wireless G

wireless G — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:47:00 +0000

Well I can’t speak to what an “average person” finds attractive in a store, but I find the practice of advertising proprietary software as a selling point for Android hardware to go against the grain of the OS’s open source philosophy. And that philosophy is why I buy Android products to begin with. I’m sure Asus makes reasonable apps, but there’s no way I’d buy one of these over a Nexus 7, even if their hardware stats were the same.

I know OEMs want to distinguish themselves, but I sure wish they’d do it with great hardware instead of proprietary wallpapers. Regarding your examples, “App Back & Restore” is a great app that more than fulfills my needs, while Polaris Office is available to anyone on the Play store (though I prefer Kingsoft Office). And that’s as it should be in an open marketplace of interchangeable hardware — I don’t want to have to buy one company’s hardware to get the best software, and in fact, that’s why I don’t buy Apple products.

Anyway, I don’t begrudge OEMs for trying, but I personally spend more time figuring out how to remove their pre-packaged apps than using them.

By: Raven

Raven — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:47:00 +0000

Actually, I do think that Asus App Backup and Polaris Office set the ASUS Transformer tablets apart from other tablets and have used them as examples when recommending them to people over other tablets.

I also personally really like their Asus Day Scene live wallpaper and default widgets on their home screen. When an average person that doesn’t know a Jelly Bean from a Gingerbread sees them side by side in a store with something like the Nexus 10 with no widgets and a boring wallpaper, which do you think they are going to be more interested in.

http://www.droid-life.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/ASUS-MeMo-Pad-10.jpg

http://www.droid-life.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/nexus-10-official-650×357.jpg

By: Raven

Raven — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:02:00 +0000

I agree, I think “technically” the vertical needs to be at least 720 to count as “HD”. So, the 1280×800 Nexus 7 is HD, but this, is not.

By: S2556

S2556 — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:58:00 +0000

I was thinking about using a nexus 7 as a head unit. It would be dope!

By: Good_Ole_Pinocchio

Good_Ole_Pinocchio — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:46:00 +0000

One button Fatality

By: wireless G

wireless G — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:42:00 +0000

Wow, those awesome built-in Asus apps really set this tablet apart from the crowd, said no one ever.

By: Scott Martin

Scott Martin — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:40:00 +0000

$150? i’m sorry but an extra $50 for the nexus 7 or galaxy tab ii 7″ is so much more bang for your buck

By: Kevin Rees

Kevin Rees — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:15:00 +0000

Would be a pretty good in-dash carputer me thinks

By: benjamin forehand

benjamin forehand — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:09:00 +0000

Eww @that screen resolution