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Review: $250 ASUS MeMo 370T packed with Tegra 3

By: Aseem Gaurav on January 16, 2012

Taiwanese PC maker Asus seems to have understood what it takes to make it big in the computer tablet market. Asus is promising consumers high-end experience in the tablet category with the MeMo 370T, by packing  in a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 processor into a 7-inch Android 4.0 tablet, offering at an affordable price tag of $249. 

The Asus MeMO 370T is a 7-inch Android Ice Cream Sandwich tablet with 7" IPS LCD display and an 8-megapixel rear-facing camera. The tablet comes with up to 16 GB of storage, 1 GB of RAM, display resolution of 1280-by-800 and uses a technology called in-plane switching to serve up wide viewing angles. The MeMO 370T features a brilliantly vivid IPS panel that’s capable of delivering viewing angles up to 178° wide to display the aforementioned 1080p HD video.



The tablet's power-packed performance is sure a treat for consumers. The device is blazing fast which combines enough power and features to give other tablets a run for their money. The home screen operations are extremely smooth and opening web sites is even smoother. In terms of gaming, the tablet delivers quite a similar performance like the MeMo’s bigger quad-core sibling, the Transformer Prime, which outputs high-resolution games to a television screen through its micro-HDMI port. The new tablet will have micro-USB, micro-HDMI, and also a micro-SD slot for expanded storage — which may not be found in other tablets.


In terms of size, the tablet may not be as thin as its bigger brother in the Prime, but it is just as snazzy, fast and responsive as we had imagined. 


The Memo 370T is a complete multimedia tablet, which offers consumers everything from videos, games, chat, movies, music, mobile applications, book-reading facilities and much more. It's small and light enough that can fit into a bag and offers vibrant and bright screen which brings movies to life. 

At the Consumer Electronics show 2012 at Las Vegas, the tablet beat many other tablets on display to win the Best Tablet of CES 2012.

The tablet is more likely to be released in second quarter of 2012 and would compete in a market already filled with me-too tablets.  It has a lot of flair and personality, and hopefully with all its functions and features it will soon be recognized by consumers. The real challenge would be to compete against the $500 and up iPad/iPad2, a dominant leader in the market enjoying a large fanbase due to quality and performance. 

According to experts, one of the reasons that Android tablets have failed to take off is because of pricing --- most of them are priced to compete against iPad instead of netbooks. The recent blockbuster performance by Kindle Fire proves this. Amazon sold $200 eReader tablet hybrid that in 2 months has sold as many or more units than all previous Android tablets combined. Similarly, HP’s Touchpad tablets sold out in minutes when the prices were lowered to $100-150 in HP’s inventory eliminating fire-sale.

 

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