Asus finally gave its new 10 inch budget tablet an official coming out party. The Asus MeMO Pad Smart is the tablet we’ve been calling the ME301T for the past month or so, and it’s expected to go on sale soon for $299.

As expected, the tablet is basically a low cost alternative to the latest Asus Transformer Pad tablets… with similar specs, but an entirely different optional keyboard accessory.

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You can pick up a keyboard dock for a Transformer tablet which effectively doubles your battery life and lets you use the tablet like a notebook. But Asus will offer a Folio Key accessory for the MeMO Pad Smart instead.

It’s a screen cover that you can place over the display for protection, or which you can detach and use as a Bluetooth keyboard. It has a built-in stand that lets you prop up the tablet while you’re typing, or if you just want to stand up the MeMO Pad to watch a video or read a recipe.

In other words, it’s a lot like the Type Cover for the Microsoft Surface line of tablets.

The MeMO Pad Smart features a 10.1 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel IPS display, a 1.2 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB of storage. Asus says the tablet should get up to 8.5 hours of battery life.

It has a 5MP rear camera, a 1.2 MP front-facing camera, micro HDMI and microSD jacks, and runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean software.

The tablet measures 10.3″ x 7.1″ x 0.4″ and weighs less than 1.3 pounds.

Asus is also selling the 10 inch Android tablet in Thailand for about $360.

There’s no word on how much the Folio Key cover will cost in the US, but TechHive reports that it will sell for about 69 Euros ($92) in Hungary. A similar keyboard cover for the Asus VivoTab Smart Windows 8 tablet sells for around $129.

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2 replies on “Asus launches 10 inch MeMO Pad Smart tablet”

  1. I think vivotab smart is a better choice.

    It costs $499 but it has much better specs than memopad.

    1. Intel atom processor which gives much better performance than tegra3. (according to anandtech.com)

    2. Better resolution of display (vivotab smart – 1366×768 vs memopad – 1280×800)

    3. 64Gb internal memory vs 16Gb memory

    4. 2Gb RAM vs 1Gb RAM

    5. 8Mp Camera vs 5Mp camera (camera is not a big deal on tablets though).

    6. Vivotab smart has full windows 8. You can install millions windows programs. It can be a PC replacement for light usage scenarios.

    Price is the main advantage for memopad. But when you consider that you will get 64Gb memory and 2Gb RAM and full windows 8, I think vivotab smart is a better choice.

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