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The Asus Memo Pad ME172V can't rise above its slow performance and low-quality screen

2013-04-12
the asus memo pad me1 7tv looks like the bizarro version of the Nexus 7 each is about the same size although the memo is slightly heavier and not quite as thin aesthetically the memo is missing the silver highlight trim around its screen and instead of a smooth comfortable backside like the Nexus 7 it instead has a bumpy unpleasant feeling texture on the back there is a 1 megapixel front facing camera a headphone jack on the top microUSB on the bottom for file transferring and charging and something the Nexus 7 doesn't have a microSD card slot for storage expansion but unfortunately that's kind of where the similarities end the me ball has a 1024 by 600 resolution screen which in 2013 is low and it could be forgivable but for the tablets panel while most tablets use IPS panels giving them wide viewing angles the MIMO receives no such privilege and its viewing angles are horribly narrow that's not that big of a deal when viewing the screen head-on but if your view gets skewed too much things get really difficult to see the MIMO houses a single core 1 gigahertz CPU and while normal navigation is fast enough with some occasional hangs if you're say downloading something while trying to play a game even a 2-d game like Angry Birds performance is adversely affected and more taxing games like Real Racing 3 it wouldn't even run without periodically hanging the tablet requiring a complete reboot the mineral does include several mini apps that run concurrently but if you're running say the movie player and a browser expects sluggish performance the memo costs one hundred and forty dollars for 16 gigabytes of storage and it includes a micro SD storage expansion slot for $60 more the Nexus 7 offers faster more stable performance with a higher quality sharper screen now that $60 difference may feel like a lot if you're on a budget but I feel it's worth it to simply pay more now and regret less later I'm Eric Franklin and this has been a first look at the a memo pad me1 72v
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