Asus has announced the MeBo tablet to take on itself, with its own Nexus 7.

The MeMO Pad is running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean with a low 1024×600 resolution. It’s powered by a VIA WM8950 processor running at 1 GHz, paired with a Mali-400 GPU. It’s got 1GB of RAM, and either 8GB or 16GB or on-board storage, with a microSD slot for good measure. Plus you get 5GB of free online storage from ASUS.

So it’s an even more compromised device than the Nexus 7. I just don’t get these cheaper tablets. They provide a poorer user experience too. It won’t be long before we will see either a $50 tablet or Amazon giving them away totally free. Do these cheaper tablets get people on board with the tablet revolution or do they destroy the high spec offerings? All it seems it all about the price on this one.