We all know that Asus was the company that made Google’s
recent 7-inch tablet. The Nexus 7 was one of the first devices in the market
that boasts considerable performance without the steep price. And Asus is at it
again with a new tablet made for the extremely budget conscious.
The Nexus 7 is currently priced at around $200 and its
younger brother, the Memo Pad is priced almost $50 lower. Of course the lower
price tag meant it had to throw away some things in terms of performance
though.
For starters, unlike the Nexus 7, the Memo Pad is not
powered by a Tegra 3 chipset, but rather by a VIA WM8950 chip. Moreover, this
device had to make do with a single core 1GHz processor instead of the Nexus’
quad-core Cortex A9 processor. Storage options have also been reduced from the
minimum of 16GB to just 8GB.
It is also a few millimeters thicker than the Nexus 7 and
its display has been downgraded to an ordinary LCD panel as opposed to the IPS
display that the former has. Resolution has also been downgraded as the tablet
has a native resolution of 600 x 1024 pixels with a pixel density of 170 ppi. The
Corning Gorilla Glass panel is also most likely to be replaced by an ordinary
glass panel and battery life is expected to be lower in capacity compared to
the Google tablet.
On the other hand, some things that will remain the same
would be its Wi-Fi capabilities, Bluetooth, Android Jelly Bean OS,
accelerometer, microSD cardslot and its messaging and browser features.
The Memo Pad is expected to be released before the month
ends or early to mid-February in the Philippines.
