Asus is a major player in the computer field. It is no wonder that the Taiwanese vendors are able to speak a lot in the field of tablets. They even believed to make Google's Nexus 7-inch tablet, two years in a row. This experience is relegated to the original Asus products, for example the Asus Memopad HD7. The tablet carries an interesting specifications for the size of the price under USD. 2 million, for example:
7-inch IPS screen HD resolution of 1280x800 pixels (216ppi)
Mediatek MT8125 processor quad-core 1.2 GHz Cortex A7, PowerVR SGX544 GPU
1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal storage, a micro SD slot
5MP camera with autofocus and 1080p video recording, 1.2 MP front camera
With affordable prices, whether the performance Memopad HD7 sacrificed?
Impression Design and Materials, Display Quality
Both in terms of design and material used material, there is nothing special about Asus Memopad HD7. The material is glossy plastic, so both sides very easily stained with fingerprints or sweat your hands. When gripped this tablet still feels comfortable, because the body behind the curve, although the side is quite stiff, and quite thick (10.8mm).
Using a dual-tone design of black and white, the buttons and ports located on the white side of this device. Micro USB port with 3.5 mm audio jack on the top side simultaneously, while the micro SD slot on the left side next to the volume and lock buttons on the right side. Micro SD slot cover is not given, so it felt a bit awkward and would probably reduce the aesthetics of this device. Overall this tablet does not look premium, but this is reasonable considering the price is relatively affordable. Moreover, as a whole did not look cheap as well.
For the size of the tablet at prices below usd 200, Memopad HD7 has a good quality screen. Has 1280x800 pixel resolution, the tablet is quite high considering the class usually only 1024x600 pixels only. Even though in terms of the quality of this tablet on the tablet in its class. The brightness level is not too high, in terms of reflectivity was not so good, and the performance impact under the scorching sun is less satisfactory, but in terms of contrast and saturation is quite good. If ever you are not satisfied with the quality of the screen of this device, there are Asus Splendid app that lets you set the temperature (white balance), hue and saturation, as well as enable the vivid mode.
interface
Trends in an affordable Android device with the official use of the interface is not much different from stock Android. Asus Memopad HD7 is not an exception. Customization that exists only in the field of skin or background only. In fact, for the main menu, it looks exactly the same as stock Android. Android version used is still Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean, which is already rather old.
Lockscreen can display widgets, as well as having direct access to Google Now. Homescreen has 5 pages, and 6 pieces of icons remain at the very bottom. Interestingly enough Floating Apps, which serves as the Small Apps on the Sony device. There are quite a lot of small applications that can be displayed simultaneously with other applications, such as SuperNote, Asus TaskManager, Youtube, Photo Gallery, Video player and so on. There is no limit to the number of Floating Apps that can be displayed, but more and more, this tablet's performance has declined.
Notification bar display brightness regulator and some quick toggle for GPS, bluetooth, autorotate and so on. In addition it also displays a notification bar clock and user information. The main menu icons are arranged in a 5x6 arrangement of applications, with a black background. Applications can be arranged by name, frequency of use and last updated.
Methods of using the Asus keyboard text input, of course equipped with standard features such as auto-correction, word completion, prediction, auto-capital and so on. Unfortunately there are no features that maximize comfort typing on a tablet screen, such as the separation of the keyboard features. For the convenience of typing itself is good to use when the portrait or landscape modes.
The performance of this cheap tablet is quite good, although sometimes there is a lag when opening applications that heavy. Probably because the only 1GB of RAM, although it does not matter because a competitor in a similar price range too, even usually more severe.
Camera and Video Recorder
Asus rear camera Memopad HD7 achieve a resolution of 5 megapixels and can record 1080p HD video. Not only that, the setting is quite complete, like a normal camera mode, panoramic, beautification, HDR, portrait, landscape and so on. There are various effects such as Vintage, nostalgic, LOMO and others, as well as white balance settings, ISO, shutter, timer, burst, and so on.
The results are less satisfactory camera, either indoors or outdoors. Very much compared with the results of the 5MP camera flagship phone a few years ago, such as the Samsung Galaxy S or Apple iPhone 4 which are both also 5MP. White balancenya sometimes chaotic, produce images that greenish. Photos in the room saddled with a very massive noise reduction, producing effects such as brush. For outdoors, pretty good HDR mode (photo at bottom). To the original file, you can download it from this link.
The results of the video recording is also not much different from the photos, greenish. Picture is not as sharp as usual full HD recording, but this 15000kbps bitrate generate large files sized 120MB for recording 1 minute (mp4 format). Movement was recorded less smooth, because the framerate is only 19fps. But the camera and video recording of this makeshift understandable, because Memopad is a tablet that should be rarely used for photographing.
multimedia
There are two kinds of applications Memopad galleries in the Gallery (stock Android) and Asus Studio. Asus Studio has the look quite attractive with a white background, and share photos by folder, time and location shooting. This application can be synchronized with Google accounts, Asus WebStorage, Dropbox and Facebook. This application can display the date and time of image capture in a photo, like the photo on the film era.
As Zenfone series from Asus, the video player on Memopad HD7, which also uses Asus Studio application, somewhat less than the maximum. Mp4 and mkv video only rotated (up to 1080p resolution), whereas for the format wmv, avi and mov unreadable. Likewise, the srt subtitle format. And with a large screen and nice, use Zenfone 6 to watch HD movies would have been nice. But in fact the solution is easy, simply install a third-party video player app (free) like MX Player, Mobo and so on.
MemoPad default music player on the HD7 is the Google Play Music. The interface is already using the new model with an orange background. Although it looks simple, but its features are sufficient. There is a queue feature, shuffle, thumbs up and added last, the songs are divided based on playlists, recent, artist, albums, songs, genres. Equalizer can be activated, in addition there are FX booster form of bass boost and 3D effect. Equaliser there own innate rock, pop, classic, and so on. In addition, of course, you can also create its own equalizer settings. The sound quality of the loudspeaker including a very fast, does not ngebass, but also not too hoarse.
connectivity
Wi-Fi 802.11 b / g / n
Bluetooth 4.0 with A2DP
Micro USB
Micro SD
3.5mm audio jack
web browsers
There are two types of tablet explorer in this virtual world, namely Google Chrome and the browser (default). Both have good performance and can be synchronized with a Google account. Its features are complete, among other things: incognito mode, bookmarks, find, request the desktop. Standard-setting arrangements, there are privacy settings, cookies, javascript, block pop ups, Google's location, as well as a separate regulation for a particular website. For existing accessibility settings and force scaling text zooming enabled.
Benchmark results
Antutu: 10068 points
Quadrant Standard: 3131 points
Nenamark 2: 45.4 fps
Epic Citadel: 53 fps
Multitouch Tester: up to 10 touch
HTML5test.com: 404 of 555 points
Endurance Battery
Test Screenshot: Within 189 minutes (3 hours 9 minutes) the battery was reduced by 30 percent
Watching 1080p HD Video Test: Reduced by 19 percent within 120 minutes
conclusion
Compared to its competitors, what is offered Memopad HD7 is interesting. Quadcore processor, the screen that is 1280x800 pixels, 5MP camera and 1080p video recording. Unfortunately there is no mobile version for this tablet, camera quality is also not as good as you think for the resolution of 5MP. In terms of performance, this tablet is relatively satisfactory in the price range of below USD 200
Pros:
HD screen resolution 1280x800 pixels
screen quality is relatively good for its class
satisfactory battery life
Floating features Apps
Micro SD slot
Disadvantages:
The body is very easy to get dirty
Android is version 4.2.2
There is no mobile version
parameter Rating
Design: 7.0
Quality: 6.5
Features: 8.5
Performance: 8.3
Battery: 9.0
Price: 8.5
Total Score: 7.9666 -> 8.0
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