ASUS MeMO Pad Smart ME301T-A1-BL 10.1-Inch 16 GB Tablet (Blue)

Have just ordered another one. I bought "used like new" the first time but the package was missing the usb adapter and instead contained a generic power plug so there was no way to link it to my computer for uploads / downloads. The Tablet itself was great and i just placed an order (for a NEW one this time so get all the original parts and perks) I found the Memo to be quick, clear, lightweight, and anticipate that it will serve me well with my Kindle and Kobo Libraries, morning news on the web, streamed movies in bed, (Yay Amazon Prime!) email, facebook, and twitter updates, and as a Skype phone and gps. There are higher rez (and higher priced) tablets but I was delighted by how responsive and adaptable this IPS unit is for being under $300. I have played with other tablets, even the Ipad and the Fire, but this one has size without weight and bells and whistles without a high price tag. Though its native resolution is only 1280 x 800, it has an HDMI socket and outputs 1080 to any hi def device with an HDMI input port... so If I have to see it bigger and higher rez - thats possible. I will update this review after a month or two of trying out the Skype, GPS, bluetooth and other apps and functions... but I have a good feeling about this tablet. Months later...2-21-14 This ASUS MEMO tablet is as I'd hoped. It's light, it's fast, the screen is clear and I take it with me everywhere. There was no problem (thank you AMAZON) with the return and replace and though I rarely use it for movies (having larger screens available) I have and it worked great... on this small a screen the native reslution is plenty and I don't hook it up to the HDTVs because I have an internet tv and a laptop to use in that way. Photos and videos taken with it are clear and natural and I love that I can carry a small library with me anywhere. Complaints? Only two and they aren't ASUS's fault... Flash does not run on it so I have to wait to get on my laptop to see flash videos that arent set up for YouTube (which it handles just fine). And I can't get it to play Amazon Prime movies! Only the FIRE and the ipad can! Grrr.!!! However no problem with Netflix etc... The battery does several hours of web before needing a boost and sound is excellent for a tablet... better than the ipadIV my house mate has! Infact comparing the two I find the ASUS is smoother and easier to use and seems to access the web faster. So all in all I'm a happy camper...

THOUGHTS: I've followed the many reviews for the Asus Memo Pad before making my final decision, and I must say that the product is worth the five stars -particularly for the quality and the price point. SETUP: If you are computer literate, the tablet is really easy to use - out the box. Setup(with updates) took me about 15 minutes. NAVIGATION: Touchscreen feedback is excellent. When navigating through webpages or email, there is not lag. BUILD: Though not contained in a metal housing, the plastic build still feels pretty solid. As another reviewer commented, you do feel some slight flexing if you apply enough force. SCREEN RESOLUTION: I think the screen resolution is pretty good. The colors are vibrant and the viewing angles are good. I am aware that there are more expensive tablets with higher quality resolution - but trust me - the quality on this tablet is not a let down. O.S: I own an Android smartphone and have always been a fan of this operating system due to the large app market. There are so many free quality apps that are available. The Android interface on the ASUS tablet seems to be flawlass. FINAL THOUGHTS: If you want a quality tablet without dropping $500 or more, the ASUS memo pad is an excellent choice.

I have had this tablet for almost a month now, so thought I would write a review. I purchased this tablet here at Amazon and bought the I-Blason case with it. This case is a must have for the tablet! It fits perfectly and offers a lot of protection. You must have a case for your tablet. I also purchased a 32GB SD card for additional storage. I intend to move a lot of my music, photos & videos to the tablet and will store them there. The speakers are really good and sound great. I get about 5 hours on a charge and it recharges quickly in about 3 hours. I never let it run down below 30%. The camera works well and the pictures are sharp & well focused. The microphone is sensitive and the voice recognition works just great. The WIFI is sensitive and connects very well with my wireless router. The apps load fast and run quickly. The display is clear & sharp for most uses. It would have been nice to have higher resolution, but it is fine for most uses. Over all I really like this tablet and feel it is worth the price. I have had none of the problems reported by others regarding lockups, failure to boot, screen scratches and speaker or battery problems. I feel that it is a good choice over the Kindle, if only for the rear facing camera plus a webcam on the front. There are however a few glitches I have experienced which take away from a perfect experience. Some may be related to the fact that I am using my SD card for extra storage and some are probably just Android glitches. I don't like the fact that the tablet turns on when you plug it into the charger. You then have to turn it off so that it will charge faster. The Asus Weather/Time widget has stopped connecting with Accuweather and will not update anymore. It worked for a couple of days. Haven't been able to get it to work again. A Google search reveals that others have had this problem too I want to be able to copy files (music, photos, videos) from my desktop PC (Windows XP) to the tablet. I am able to copy music (MP3), photos (JPG), but Windows won't let me copy videos (MP4) to the tablet. It says the file type is not supported by the device. It will, for some reason, let me copy WMV video files, but WMV files won't play on the Android tablet. I have to work around this by changing the file type extension on my MP4 files to WMV and then copy them. The Android tablet then doesn't seem to care what the file extension is and plays them just fine once I get them there! I worked with Asus support on this and they were unable to provide any solution. I had hoped they would have updated USB drivers for their tablet, but they don't. They have drivers for their "Transformer" tablet only. Maybe updated Android USB drivers would have allowed Windows to properly recognize the device When I connect the tablet to my PC via USB, the Windows file manager shows duplicate entries for the folders on the tablet's SD card. Also, whenever I connect it to my PC without even copying files or doing anything, all of the files in my folders on the SD card are suddenly duplicated! The tablet file manager doesn't show them duplicated, just the Asus player/viewers. The only way I can eliminate the duplicate files is to (using the tablet file manager) create a new folder under a different name, cut & paste all the files to the new folder, then delete the old folder. This duplicate file problem also occurs when an update is applied to one of the apps. Doing a Google search on these problems I have found others have experienced these problms with other devices, including smart phones. It seems that the Android OS has some glitches. No one reported the Windows file copying problem however. I don't have experience with other brand tablets, so I don't know how they compare. But even with the glitches, I still find this tablet to be very useful and worth the price. My experience with Asus support was just so so and not what I would call great.

I'm very pleased with the quality and performance of this product, but it has taken some time to get used to the the tablet "form factor" and the quirks of the Android operating system. This review will touch on those issues as well as my impressions of the Asus MeMo Pad Smart 10 itself. Screen Resolution. For some reason most tablet reviews start with the screen resolution. The Asus Memo 10 has 1280 x 800 pixels versus the Nexus 10's 2560 x 1600 and the iPad4's 2048 x 1536. Perhaps the greater resolution on the Nexus and iPad4 does have some benefits, but I don't know what they might be. Text and colors are very clear and bright on the Asus. By having four times as many pixels, the Nexus is locked into needing more processing power just to update screen content. To what end? There may be real benefits, but I don't see them -- and that's the point! The screen resolution for both text and images is very, very good. Processing power. With a quad-core Tegra3 processor, this is a speedy tablet. Judging by how it runs the 3D graphics of NVDIA Glowball, it shouldn't have any problems with advanced games. It certainly has no problems in ordinary use when browsing, reading ebooks, handling multiple applications at once, and so on. Speakers. One of the best features of this tablet is the quality of the speakers. Sound quality is reasonably good for such tiny speakers and the volume is impressive. When the volume is all the way up, the tablet can fill a fairly large room with music. I no longer need to plug in an external speaker in order to watch a movie with my wife.(Update 4/17/2013. After using the speakers at full volume for about a week, they have developed an annoying rattle or buzz. I must now plug in an external speaker for music or use headphones. The initial volume was too good to remain true!) Software. One of the real strengths of this tablet is the vast assortment of apps -- many of them free. The Asus Memo 10 comes preloaded with a set of basic of apps to help those (like me) who are new to the Android OS. Using Google's Play Store one can effortlessly download and install any number of other apps. Since I use Kindles for most of my reading, it was nice to find the Amazon Kindle app preinstalled. The Amazon Appstore for Android is not preinstalled but can be downloaded from Amazon's website and gives access to Amazon's free app of the day. One disadvantage of Android software is that there is rarely an adequate help file. This makes it a real challenge to figure out how to take full advantage of the various aspects of the programs. My biggest initial challenge was to find a decent application for writing. Google Drive seemed ideal except that I couldn't find a way to get it to spell check complete documents -- (It does spell check "on the fly")--so my first solution was to use a little app called Writer. It has a decent spell check implementation, but documents are limited in length and it cannot directly edit documents on Google Drive. I had to open my document in Google Drive, 'long-press' anywhere in the document to allow selecting all of the text, and create a new Writer document in which to paste that text. After editing, I reversed the process to paste the edited text back into my Google Drive document. At least this somewhat inconvenient system allowed cross-platform access to my documents. But the tablet keyboard was a bit too responsive so that extra characters or wrong keys were common. After some research I installed SwiftKey tablet keyboard and made it my default. I'm impressed. It is a very handy keyboard. Typing is far more accurate than on the other keyboards I have tried so far. Capitalization and apostrophes are handled automatically. Word prediction is pretty good. It costs money, but it could be worth it. The keyboard works as it should both in Google Drive and in the browser's Gmail or the Android Gmail app. Problem solved. (Update 5/9/2013 Android 4.2 includes a much-improved keyboard with "on the fly" spell check and the ability to type using swipe gestures. To upgrade the table to Android 4.2.1 go to Settings > About Tablet > System Update.) Kingsoft Office is the best Android word processing application that I have discovered so far. You can use it to directly edit documents on Google drive and it includes an adequate spell check feature. Streaming video. One of my main reasons for buying a tablet was to improve streaming video from YouTube and Amazon Prime. YouTube worked perfectly from the start, limited only by the speed of the wifi connection. To get Amazon prime video to stream, it was necessary to side-load Flash and use the native android browser. But it does work--and very well indeed. (Update. It Did work! Amazon seems to have done something to bollix up flash support in android browsers. I am not happy about that! I will update this review again if I can discover at way to solve this problem. Update2. Puffin browser shows Amazon Prime videos but there is a bit of lag. Better than nothing. Update 3. As of May 23, you can once again stream Amazon Prime Video without lag using the native android browser, Chrome, Firefox or Dolphin as long as you have side-loaded Flash! ) Slideshow. A ten-inch tablet is, of course, a media consumption device and to some extent a productivity tool, but when not in use, it also makes a very handy digital photo frame. All one needs to do is load up some photos, which is very easy to do because of the micro sd card slot. One great feature of this tablet is that you can easily set it up to show a slideshow of your favorite photos on the desktop background as well as on the sleep screen. To do so, pull down the menu with the blue icons at the top right corner. Tap Settings>Display>Home-and-Lock-Screen>Live Wallpapers>Asus MyFrame, and then choose a folder containing the photos you wish to display. Sd card slot. This is a vital feature. The Google Nexus 10 lacks one. The iPad4 lacks one. Yet without an sd card slot, it is much more difficult to transfer songs, photos, and documents to and from the device. If you have permanent access to a high speed data connection, fine. If not and if you wish to store your songs and videos right on the device itself, you will want an sd card slot. Besides, a 16 gig tablet is somewhat short of internal space. It is handy to be able to expand the storage as needed. The tiny and perhaps delicate mini-usb connection is potentially a serious flaw because this eminently breakable connector is the sole way of recharging the tablet. With a newly purchased machine, be very careful when plugging in the mini-usb connector. With time and a bit of practice, I have gotten the feel of this, but I am still careful. Thoughts on the 10-inch tablet form factor: A ten-inch tablet is a bit too large to grip firmly with one hand, and this one is even a little slippery. I have large hands and can hold it one-handed in portrait mode, but generally I need to use two hands--and exercise caution even then. Learn to love your microfiber cloth. Tablets are renowned for picking up fingerprints and this one is no exception. Keep a microfiber cloth with you at all times. In landscape mode this tablet has a large, comfortable keyboard--especially with the SwiftKey tablet keyboard mentioned earlier. Touch typing is perhaps possible. The upgraded keyboard in Android 4.2.1 is superb! It has a great swipe capability and on-the-fly spell checking. All in all I think I may prefer the form factor of a Chrome netbook or an ultra book, but in most respects this is a fine tablet. UPDATE 6/15/2013. I have recently upgraded my experience with this tablet by making three inexpensive purchases. First I bought a Moko Slim Cover Case [[ASIN:B00BP5NIKI MoKo Slim Cover Case for ASUS MeMo Pad Smart ME301 / ME301T 10.1 inch Android 4.1 Jelly Bean tablet, BLACK (with Flip Stand, Integrated Elastic Hand Strap, and Stylus Loop)]. This nicely protects the screen and provides a fairly stable viewing stand. Next I bought an inexpensive set of styluses, which minimize fingerprints on the screen and make navigation much easier. Finally, I bought an inexpensive micro USB to USB OTG (on the go) adaptor. This gives the tablet a full-sized USB port for plugging in various accessories such as a USB memory stick or (more importantly) a wireless keyboard and mouse. I'm currently using an old Logitech keyboard that I had lying around and it works great! It turns the little tablet into a solid substitute for a laptop or netbook. It does, however, drain the tablet's battery more rapidly, but that's something I can live with when I need to do serious work processing.

I must have the worst luck with tablets. I had a HP touchpad which I loved that died a little under two years. Black screen of death but that what you get for buying dead technology. Anyway, I brought a Ipad 3 a few months back and it's ok. But I brought this ASUS memo pad and it was love at first sight for 11 days. It's easy to use and pretty light weight. The only real downside is the speakers. The sound for games is great but when playing a movie not so good because of the location on the back of the tablet. Even with headphones it's only marginally better. Anyway back to the problem. On May 31, 2013 a system upgrade to Jelly Bean was performed and it went through fine. On 5 June 2013 the tablet would not turn on. I called ASUS and they walked me through trying to get it to boot, but it to no avail. So this review is from 21 May 2013 - 5 Jun 2013. I will give Amazon high marks for their customer service. A replacement was sent out and I should get it today. So to be continued........ 6/29/13 Update... So I have had the new device for about 20 days now and last night I could not for the life of me get it to turn on. I put it on the charger and kept holding down the power button and finally got it to turn on. I would recommend against letting the battery completey drain. I think that is the problem with this tablet. The last time I had this problem of the black screen of death. The tablet battery had died. Other than that a great tablet for the price. 7/3/13 Update..... The replacement died today. I had it plugged up majority of the day while I was watching Burn Notice. When I went to turn it back on later that night. I got the black screen of death. So it was not a low battery issue. There is something serious wrong with this tablet. This is the second one to die in less than two months. I'm not willing to give Asus a third try. I'm getting a refund and already brought the Samsung Note. Save your money and put out the extra $20.00 for a better product.

This is a very nice tablet. Screen is very good, speed is awesome, graphics are impressive. Only thing is prime videos don't work till you get the flash workaround, look on youtube. But xfinity app works just fine. I got the keyboard bluetooth Sharkk for cheap, and it works just great! Light, and awesome sound, takes a bit to charge up though, and the kids will drain all the power in a few hours playing games, and youtube (which looks awesome on the screen). Very happy with it, and a very fair price too.

I've had this device since early November, 2014. I bought it as a Christmas present for my wife who has been using an Acer 7 inch tablet. I had to return a previous purchase when the touch screen became unresponsive. The transaction with the seller and Amazon was completely painless and accomplished with cross-shipping and instant credit. The replacement tablet has been perfect. I have been using it in a limited manner to get it completely set up for my wife to use on Christmas morning. I find the battery life to be amazing on standby as I have only had to charge it twice in all these weeks. I'm currently quite familiar with a couple of other android tablets and this one is very fast by comparison. It comes with a fairly early version of Jelly Bean, but with Asus' support history I expect that we will see at least Kit Kat on this platform. The price on this tablet which compares favorably with the Galaxy tab 4 is amazing. It's at least $100 less than any comparable competitor. Other reviews knock the screen resolution which is the same as my wife's 7 inch tablet, but in use I see no problems with it. It's sharp, bright, and responsive - I think I might buy one for myself as well. Edit as of March 23, 2015 Since yesterday this tablet has completely refused to connect via wifi. I've tried everything I can find in the forums, and nothing helps. It seems that I'm going to have to seek an RMA, however the ASUS website technical support email is not functioning. This tablet was a Christmas present for my wife and she quickly became dependent on it. I've given her my 8" no-name tablet to tide her over, and I'm purchasing a 7" Asus tablet from EBAY as a spare for the both of us (both my grandkids have these 7" memo pads and are very happy). Seems our laptops are almost beside the point now. Anyhow, I'm reducing my original 4-star rating to 2 since the tablet can no longer perform its desired function. I have hopes that ASUS will eventually resolve this problem, and if so, I'll come back and post accordingly. Edit as of April 17, 2015 After jumping through all the hoops that ASUS set for me I finally got an RMA and sent the tablet back for repair. It cost me $6.00 for a box and packing materials to meet their requirements and approximately $11.00 for UPS shipping and insurance. Their website never gave me any indication that they had received my tablet or what the status was. They shipped it back with no notice and no tracking number. I got it back in a box with approximately half the packing that they had required of me. The box had been somewhat crushed, but the tablet showed no obvious damage. After testing, I find that the tablet still has major issues with wifi connections and now also has issues with charging. I sent the tablet to them with a full charge and received it back completely dead. It took 24 hours to charge to 100 percent. I was able to connect to my home wifi (that at least 10 other devices connect to with no problem) after about 20 or 30 tries. Although it was connected, there was no throughput. Every website and the Play Store all timed out because there was no real connection. I will attempt to contact them again and demand a replacement, but I have no real expectation of satisfaction at this point. Now let me say that this is the fourth ASUS tablet I have purchased and I will NEVER buy another. I fervently wish I had spent the extra money to get a Galaxy for my wife. Aside from this tablet, I also bought two 7 inch ASUS tablets for my grandkids. Both of those tablets are now useless due to charging issues. Seems to be a problem with the micro-usb port, but who knows. When these things work, they work great, but you're playing Russian Roulette if you purchase one. For me, Never again.

This is my first tablet, and it is everything I was expecting and more! It is fast, looks great and works great. Very lightweight yet sturdy, easy to hold and use. It updated itself to Android ICS on the first use. I have been looking for a reasonably priced tablet that included an HDMI out and a USB connection, that is a combination hard to come by! The USB makes it easy to connect to my computer and transfer files (wifi isn't always an option). HDMI out lets me watch movies on my TV. Other tablets that have these features cost $100-200 more. I read that the resolution is an issue on this tablet (being low in comparison to other 10" tablets), but I have no problem with it, I am not sure what people are complaining about, because the picture and videos are very sharp in my opinion. I was able to add a 64GB SD card for extra storage. I only have 2 small complaints - the very short cord for charging, if you want to use the tablet while charging, you will have to sit very close to the outlet. The other is that the description says this is 'Blue' but the one I got was grey. Overall, I would recommend this tablet to anyone! UPDATE 6/2014 - I like the HDMI out, it lets me watch any movies or streaming video on my TV (Netflix). However the HDMI out port is pretty cheap, it barely holds the mini HDMI converter, and now barely works. I have to jiggle it and eventually it will make the connection, then I have to hope it lasts while watching the movie.