Asus Eee Pad MeMo

Asus is also in full blow at CES. Besides showing off some Sandy boards, the company also got some tablets up its sleeves for Vegas guests. The first one that we’re going to look at is the 7-inch tablet that’s running on Honeycomb, and it’s called the Eee Pad MeMo. Well, I can safely say that the name does say it all. It’s a tablet, but it also acts (or want to) as a memo, like how a real life memo works, with a pen.
The 7-inch, 1024 x 600 tablet runs Android 3.0, with a dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm 8260 processor under the hood and dual cameras (1.2 megapixel at the front, and 5 megapixel at the back with LED flash). The main feature here is a capacitive stylus and two included apps to make the best of it.

Media Note is a scrapbook / note taking application, while Painter allows you to use the stylus as a pressure-sensitive drawing instrument. They’re probably nothing too special just now, but the prospect of pressure-sensitivity on a handheld tablet is alluring, particularly for the artists among us that thought they’d left the iPad’s fingerpainting methods back in kindergarten.
MeMO’s other standout might not win it so many fans, but it’s still worth noting. ASUS calls the device “a perfect blend of tablet and smartphone,” and uses a stereo Bluetooth headset dubbed the “MeMic” media phone extender to make the experience a bit more phone-like.
ASUS says the Eee Pad MeMO will start at $499 and debut in June. So that’s still a few months to go.











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