Question for my geek friends in Far Off Lands

[rolanni]

I am in the throes of Gadget Lust.  I've been reading about the Asus MeMo 370T, to be released in the US in the second quarter of the year, and it seems to me to be my Dream Tablet -- good size, good price, Android OS.  The one outstanding question is battery life.

Now, it seems that, in Europe, a version of this tablet is already on sale -- the Asus MeMo 171 -- which Asus does not, for reasons best known to Asus, intend to offer to the US market.

So, my question is:  Does anyone have any experience with this device?  What are your impressions, especially with regard to battery life, but I'm interested in everything you have to say about it -- good and bad.

Abundant Spanish Aunts.

Comments

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

That's the Transformer Prime, maybe? Yeah, that looked Really Nice. I'm sorry to hear about the wonky keyboard, but I could see why a gadget-lover would adore it.

What makes the MeMo tablet particularly attractive (to me) is that I've been running an Asus EEEPC netbook for four or five years now, and it has never given me a half-second's trouble, until it recently lost its mind and had to have it replaced with Linux Mint (after which operation, it merrily motored on).

I'm also in the position of needing (though I said I Would Never) something to read books on that has backlighting. And before I drop twoannahaf bills, as my friend Jones used to say, and which is the top of my budget, on a Nook tablet (i.e. an ereader that does Other Things), I thought I'd do some Careful Shopping. A device that does Lots of Things and also lets me read books is philosophically closer to what I want.

Besides...it's purty :)