ASUS shows off MeMO Pad 8 and 10, budget tablets arriving before year’s end (hands-on)
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Hungry for more ASUS IFA debuts? The company trucked out the two newest additions to its MeMO Pad tablet line, the 8 and 10, both budget devices set to arrive before the holidays. What all that actually means in terms of pricing and availability, however, the company’s not quite ready to say — though we assume that, at the very least, they’ll come in under flagship slates of similar size. Thankfully, however, ASUS did let us spend some time with both products.
The 8-inch device isn’t the highest-end mini-tablet we’ve seen (that might be the new Nexus 7), but the company’s done a good job building a solid-feeling slate. The front of the MeMO Pad 8 is extremely glossy — it’s fine in normal indoor lighting, but when we took the tablet up on the roof to check out the panoramic view of Berlin, it was a bit more problematic. Continuing our tour, above the 1,280 x 800 display you’ll find a 1.2-megapixel front-facing camera, and in the bottom bezel there’s a shiny silver ASUS logo.%Gallery-slideshow79414%
Asus does seem as though they have a new range of tablets being prepared for the masses, where these will be called the MeMO Pad. Well, a couple of MeMO Pads have already picked up the nod of approval from the FCC, which is a sign that these tablets would eventually arrive at all good consumer electronic stores in the US. The larger MeMO Pad of the two will carry the model number K001, where it boasts of a screen which will measure around 10” diagonally, as you can see above. The very same FCC reports also point toward dual-band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity, accompanied by a built-in camera.