Asus Quad-core Memo 370T Tablet For $250

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Asus and Nvidia have set conference tongues wagging with a preview of a quad-core Tegra 3-packing 7-inch tablet that they claim will sell for $250. This tablet is the Asus Memo 370T, an upgraded version of the 7-inch Memo which debuted at the last CES in 2011. The previous version featured a dualcore Qualcomm 1.2GHz CPU and had Android Honeycomb as its OS, whereas the souped-up Memo 370T will boast a quadcore CPU and run Android Ice Cream Sandwich to move with the times.

The original Asus Memo came complete with handy stylus, and perhaps oddly, given the resurgence of styluses as input devices (Galaxy Note, Samsung Q550), the stylus has disappeared. The new Memo 370T packs a cool 1GB RAM and will offer a minimum of 16GB flash storage. In the demo its 1280 x 800 pixel display scrolled through menus smoothly. The Memo 370T tablet’s look and feel are similar to the Acer Iconia Tab A100. The Asus Memo 370T weighs 0.88 pounds, which is bang on the category average, pretty impressive considering its internals.

Port-wise it offers a micro-USB, a microSD card reader, and a microHDMI for streaming your content to a full-size display. The 370T will also bear the same 8MP camera found on Asus’s market-leading Transformer Prime quad-core slate.

It’s an especially intriguing development now that Google has unified the Android environment for both tablets and smartphones for the first time with ICS. That has made game development more appealing on the Android platform, especially now that the Transformer Prime has shown the Tegra 3 to be a very capable 3D performer.

Such a low price for such a powerful piece of kit threatens to be the biggest story of CES 2012 – last year’s CES news was dominated by the announcement of a certain Amazon Kindle Fire, which promised a premium-quality tablet experience for a price-slashing $200.

If the Memo 370T does hit the market at $250, Sony’s soon-to-arrive PSP Vita – on sale next month at $249 – would have some serious competition in the gaming market. We confidently predict that a quadcore Tegra-3 based 7-inch Android ICS tablet selling at $249 would be the biggest seller of 2012… whatever tricks Apple can pull out of the bag with the iPad 3.

Here is a first look at Asus Memo 370T courtesy of CNET:

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