ASUS MeMO Pad HD7 Review: $149 Nexus 7.1 Successor & Our First Look at MediaTek's MT8125
by Anand Lal Shimpi on July 29, 2013 3:55 PM EST- Posted in
- Tablets
- Asus
- Mobile
- Android 4.2
- MeMO Pad
ASUS' Android Customizations
The MeMO Pad HD7 ships with Android 4.2.2, as well as a few ASUS customizations. ASUS includes its own keyboard by default as well as its own unified notification shade:
Both of these customizations are reversible. The HD7 includes the stock Jellybean keyboard, and you can revert to the standard notification and quick settings combo shades.
A tap and hold on the virtual home button brings up a shortcut widget that lets you launch voice search, Google Now as well as a number of user definable applications.
Borrowing from what we've seen a number of Android OEMs do lately, ASUS includes support for floating apps/widgets with the MeMO Pad HD7. There's a fourth virtual button to the left of the standard three, tapping it brings up a configurable list of floating apps/widgets. Tapping on any of the icons drops the app/widget on your screen in a floating window. You can move the window anywhere you'd like. Resizing is supported depending on the app/widget. Floating windows persist across app switches, however they disappear the minute you hit the home button. There are video player and browser floating apps, although there's no support for automatically snapping individual windows to half of the screen to easily share display real estate with two windows.
The rest of the experience is pretty much stock. As always, ASUS includes a set of preloaded apps including SuperNote Lite, File Manager, and its own gallery app (ASUS Studio).
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skeighter - Tuesday, August 20, 2013 - link
these are great little tablets. bought one for my wife. she was constantly playing with her phone to access facebook, twitter, instagram, etc. All on a tiny screen. Bought her a nice Lenovo 10" tablet, but she never used it. This is just the right size. Very fast, runs circles around both of my two year old dual core tablets. Liked it so much I bought another for myself.MarkWebb - Tuesday, September 17, 2013 - link
Just got one, very zippy (surprised), 3 issues: it downloaded, installed and rebooted with 4.2.2 but About still shows 4.2.1 and I tried checking for updates but it now says I am up to date even though About is not reporting it; it seems to occasionally register a single tap as a double; and Kindle dims the brightness! By about 20%. Got this for the micro SD slot.Asus Memo Pad HD7 - Monday, October 7, 2013 - link
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mfox - Thursday, November 14, 2013 - link
I have only had it for a few days, and have not had much time to really run it through its paces yet, but I am most likely going to return it. The display, especially. in regard to video, does seem really good. I have not found the device to be generally laggy so far, although I haven't really used it with many apps, under significant "load." My real complaint is with what I saw in some other reviews and was concerned about, the build, fit and finish and overall quality. it does seem creaky, the screen does seem like it is made from plastic, and the one I got had a little glue in the seam between the screen and the rest of the body. That seem seems to be of uneven width around the device and most likely will get other gunk caught in it. I really haven't had a chance to see if it has problems or works well with various apps, but will probably return it. I have ordered, believe it or not, a Dell venue 7, which has 1gb more internal memory, a decent (from what I have read) processor, and an equivalent screen. It runs stock android and is right now at 4.2 (like the asus), rather than 4.3, I think. And it is at a similar price point.danbc - Saturday, February 1, 2014 - link
Indeed, the presence of SDHC slot is a good option.Even on Nexus 7, you can use a stick over otg cable, it's not the same thing, because, on his Asus tablet, and all devices with sd slot, with proper software, like directory bind, you can efectively extend your sotrage space on the SD card .
I have a question for the writter: what is the name of the cpu usage monitor you used?