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%
All right, tie a napkin around your neck with this dish from the rumor mill, and make sure that none of the salt you sprinkle on this rumor does not end up on your shirt. A Dutch website showed off what very well could be the Asus MeMo Pad 10, where it sports a 10-inch display with a punch-packin’ quad-core 1.2GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor. The display itself is touted to carry a resolution count of 1,280 x 800 pixels, where it is accompanied by 1GB RAM on board alongside 16GB of internal storage space in the form of flash memory.
