Review: Asus MeMoPad 7 ME572C

By Jeff Parsons

Introduction and design

When Asus built the Nexus 7 for Google, it produced one of the best budget tablets we’d seen. Clearly the Taiwanese manufacturer knows better than to mess with a winning formula.

The Asus MemoPad 7 ME572C then, is the spiritual successor to the Nexus 7 and builds on it without really adding anything new.

Currently the MemoPad 7 is only available at John Lewis for £179.95, putting it in a similar price range to the Amazon Fire HDX 8.9 (£199) and LG G Pad 8.3 (£169) but above the popular Tesco Hudl 2 (£129).

Since Asus released the original Nexus 7 back in 2012, the market for budget Android tablets has changed pretty significantly. The falling price of components coupled with Android’s maturity as an operating system has resulted in capable devices even at the sub-£150 mark.

That means that attaching a “great value” tag to the MeMoPad 7 ME572C might be a bit premature. To be fair, Asus does have a cheaper, entry-level version of the MeMoPad 7 (available for £99) with a different design and lower specs.

However, if you’re willing to …read more

Source: techradar.com – PC and Mac