The
Asus Eee Pad MeMO 171 is not one of the latest little wonders to come from the minds of
Asus. It has been seen numerous times last year and has changed dramatically over time. Being an awesome little 7-inch tablet with stylus attached to the front via a clip holder makes it different. You can expect all the usual tablet functions and stylus operations you would normally get from any tablet. The MeMO will be sporting Honeycomb 3.2 at initial launch but is upgrade-able to Ice Cream Sandwich. With Asus’ current track record of updates, it should take all that long. Screen wise you are going to be staring at 7-inch Super IPS+ backlit LCD WXGA display at 1280×800 covered by the traditional Corning Gorilla Glass.  Internal workings will bring you a Qualcomm 8260 Daul-core CPU at 1.2GHz, 1Gb or RAM and 16Gb internal storage along with 8GB of ASUS Webstorage for life. It all sounds pretty great, but nothing that isn’t already running around the globe, right?
You would be incorrect if you think this is just ‘another’ 7-inch tablet offering. There is one key difference between this tablet and all the rest. This one is designed to also make and receive phone calls. Now, they don’t expect you to hold a massive 7-inch device to your face while you walk down the street. Lets face, you would get made fun of, heck, I’d make fun of you but secretly want to do the same thing. Instead, Asus created an accessory that will come bundled with the tablet in most markets. It is called the MeMIC.
As you can see in the image, the MeMIC is like a little MP3 looking device. It connects to the MeMO via Bluetooth and has a set of included earbuds. You can make and receive calls, texts and listen to music with out the need to pull your tablet out to do so. With out a huge amount of information on the MeMIC it looks like you can also check your calendar with it as well and use voice search to get information. The MeMO does house a SIM card slot, but what it houses as far as radios and such is missing. If we go off a
previous photo from back in February of 2011, it had GSM Quad-bands, HSPA+. I suppose that will be left up to where they decide to market the device, or if they decide to go carrier direct in the future. This should easily be another great offering from Asus and should make its rounds at Mobile world Congress next week.
Source: Asus via TalkAndroid
