Highly recommend Asus Memopad 8 for those who are looking for 8". having use it for the past 2months, i can conclude:
- built quality is relatively good, solid plastics (not cheapy ones)
- screen is bright and contrasting. Color's a bit warm to my liking, but you can easily tone it down
- Wifi is strong,no issues. GPS works well during my recent Aus trip by Sygic
- Being Asus, you are assured of quality software development. I've not found any bugs so far, and some Asus's preinstalled software is pretty useful, like Supernote. It allows you to finger gesture sketches and inserting pics, creating your own on the go memo
- Battery life is awesome, i can concur on that. Setting brightness comfortable to my eyes, Wifi on, i'm able to get around 8hrs browsing, youtube, movies
In short, definitely no regrets getting it. You are assured of quality software that will work and bugless. I can pretty say, 8" suits me best, as i mainly use it at night, laying down on my bed utilizing it. Attached are pictures of it, with a surprisingly good China clone transcover. I'm getting another tablet, iFive mini3 retina (on the way). kinda itching to test it out after reading good stuffs on it
Roughly the same story with my MemoPad HD7. I didn't bother with the GPS though.