ASUS MeMO Pad 7" Tablet Unboxing
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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www.coolermaster-usea.com/team_curse for more details. Welcome to my extreme
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brightness outdoor unboxing of the ASUS memo pad. I wanted to make a point about
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the lifestyle of this particular product by resting on this here grassy
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embankment while I open it up and uh
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show what you would look like using this particular little 7-in tablet. So, this
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is a more valueoriented product. U so it's not like their Transformer series
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where it's got all the bells and whistles and you can attach it to like
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you know a keyboard and all that kind of stuff. This is using a single A9 core.
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So, it's a a via what is it again? A
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WM8950. It's got wireless N, a gig of
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memory, 16 gigs of storage. That's eMMC
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storage. It's got a very similar overall feel to it. Like, it's very similar form
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factor to something like a Google Nexus 7. And it's got a very actually very
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stunning backing on it here. Check that out. So, it's got a diamond patterned
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back that's just got a an ASUS logo. What I like about it is the fact that
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it's textured. So many guys are going with uh smooth feels. Like I personally
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hate the feel of the iPad because it's so smooth on the back you could easily
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just drop the thing. Whereas this isn't quite rubberized. But here I'm going
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to if you guys can hear that noise. It
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has a bit of grippyiness to it so you can actually hold the stupid thing
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because a lot of the time you've got all these new tablets that are coming with
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thin enough bezels that you can or thick enough bezels that you can hold them
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here, but it's hard to support it because it's not grippy enough on the back and the glass obviously won't
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provide any of that. So, there you go. It's got a it's got a good overall feel
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to it. In terms of functionality, we've got or in terms of buttons, we've got
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the lock button up here at the top, which I'm pressing to hopefully turn it
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on. We've got a volume rocker. It comes with Android Jellybean 4.1, micro SD
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slot. Love to see this on the Value tablets, especially cuz they don't come
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with that much storage. 16 gigs on board, so you can expand that with another 64 gigs if you want. Micro USB
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for charging as well as data transfer on the other side. Not a whole lot. You've
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got a single speaker on the back as well as a single microphone port right there
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and a single 1 megapixel camera on the front of the device. Now, let's have a
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look at what ASUS includes with this guy. So, you got a warranty
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card. Coup. Uh, you've got another one
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in French. You've got a memoad user manual. You've got a USB to micro USB
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cable as well as a what's this guy going
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to be? Is this a 1 amp 0.3 amp? No, 2
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amp. 2 amp 5volt output wall wart. So,
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let's get it fired up and we'll be back in just a moment. So, we've got this bad
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boy fired up. I've brought up the camera app just for the lols. You guys aren't
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going to be able to see anything there because the sun's directly behind us.
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But what I can do is I can show you a video that I already took. I've got the
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screen on full brightness here. So, this is what the usage scenario would
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probably look like. You know, laying on the grass, opening with the gallery. Uh,
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yeah, let's always open that with gallery. So, it's actually usable even
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in an extremely bright condition. So, our camera is probably compensating for
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it a little bit up there, but you can see how how white I am here because the
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sun's directly in my face. I can also barely see anything, but with the screen
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at full brightness, it's actually quite usable. Now, it is by the by all
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appearances a TN panel. Uh, so you do
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have some color shift when you when you angle it from side to side, but that's
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what we expect with these value products. It's only about $170. Um, and because of Jellybean, even
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though the processor is not as overpowered as something like a Nexus 7,
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it is reasonably responsive. So, you can, you know, click and see all your
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apps and browse between those and all that cuz of Project Butter. And I think
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that pretty much covers it. Thank you for checking out this unboxing and first
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look at the ASUS Memo Pad. I think I did miss something critical, which was the
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resolution, which I believe was 1024x 600, although I could be wrong about
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that. You'll have to give me a moment. Yep, that was all the time I needed.
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1024 by 600. Oh yeah, we'll do my uh
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trademark now HTC1 size comparison. So, there's the
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thickness. This is a 4.3 in smartphone, so that should give you some idea how
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it'll compare to a 7-in tablet in terms of the overall screen size. Don't forget
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