New pictures of the forthcoming full tablet PC by ASUS have risen up. The new picture seems to be an artist rendering of how the Eee Pad may look like. The tablet will be directly competing against the forthcoming Apple Tablet, which is scheduled for the end of January. However, the Eee Pad will be a late-comer in this respect, as it is expected for the end of 2010.
The EeePad will look similar to ASUS’ latest T91 and T101 offering, albeit without a keyboard. It will sport a 4 to 7-inch capacitive touch screen display with multi-touch as well as haptic feedback.
(Pictures are not official but artist renderings instead)
The ASUS Eee Keyboard is a completely enabled personal computer in the shape of a keyboard. It features a touch-enabled display next to the keys which a user can customize to hold a quicklist of buttons of applications and tasks or even watch a movie on.
The ASUS Eee Keyboard is up for launch this February and will be sold for a price from $499 to $599 or EUR 350 to EUR 450.
Specifications:
Screen: 5″ LED Backlight / Touch Panel
OS: Windows 7 Home Premium (32 bit)
Resolution: 800×480
Battery: Li-polymer, 4 hours runtime
Processor: Intel Atom N270
Memory: 1Gb (DDR2)
Storage: SSD 16Gb (upgardeable to 32GB)
Online Storage: 500Gb
Audio: HD / Stereo Speakers / Digital Array Mic
Wireless: 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth: Yes
Color: Silver
We have been waiting on the launch of the ASUS Eee PC T101H or ASUS Eee PC T101MT, or 10.1″ model of the Asus tablet for over a year now. For many potential customers, the T91 with its 8.9″ screen was simply too small to justify its price.
With the passing of the T101MT through the FCC, all rumors and gossip can come to an end. Before a new electronics product launches, it has to be checked for consumer safety by the FCC. Most products pass without any hardship and therefore you can usually expect a product to launch soon after the FCC has seen it.
The current expectations in the blogosphere and around industry analysts is that the T101MT will be shown at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2010 and will hit stores in Q2 of 2010.
T101MT Specifications (unconfirmed)
Screen: 10.1″ LED Backlight / Capacitive Multi-Touch Panel
Industry insiders report that ASUS will be launching a new device named the Eee Pad in the 3rd quarter of 2010. The device which will look similar to ASUS’ latest T91 offering, albeit without a keyboard and will sport a 4 to 7-inch capacitive touch screen display with multi-touch as well as haptic feedback.
The device will be directly competing against the Apple Tablet which has just been delayed until the 2nd quarter of 2010.
More details to follow up in a few hours.
A few months ago we were already reporting that in addition to the T101MT, we expected a multi-touch version of the Asus Eee PC T91 to be produced soon.
Problems with the high demand for the T91 created a great shortage in inventory in the last few months. ASUS has upped its production and stocks seem to have been re-supplied now at Amazon. A week ago, pre-ordering started and now finally the T91MT has arrived along with the new batch of T91’s.
The ASUS Eee PC T91MT runs Windows 7, which is almost completely designed for touch-screen devices. Like its sibling the T91, it holds a 1.33 Ghz Intel Atom Z520 processor with 1GB of RAM. For more, read the T91MT specifications.
Unlike some reports in the blogosphere, the T91MT does NOT have a pressure sensitive screen but does have palm rejection. Palm rejections means the device does not accept the touch of your handpalm as a touch input but it does accept the stylus and your seperate fingers as input. This makes it possible to use the T91MT as a notepad.
The latest addition to the ASUS Eee PC family is the T91MT. It is a multi-touch version of the ASUS’s first tablet, the T91. Its specifications are similar.
“The Eee PC™ T91MT measures just 225cm by 164cm, and weighs a mere 0.96kg—making it one of the smallest and thinnest gadgets with an 8.9″ display in the world today. The Eee PC™ T91MT is the one of the first mini laptops to use a full multi-touch interface, supporting Microsoft Windows 7.”
Screen: 8.9″ LED Backlight / Resistive Multi-Touch Panel
Update: ASUS Eee PC T91MT was confirmed a few weeks ago and is now up for purchase on Amazon.
An industry insider has just leaked the roadmap for the upcoming line-up of ASUS Eee PC products for the next year. Apart from several new Eee PCs, it contains news on the future of the ASUS Eee PC T91.
Apparently ASUS has not decided to scrap the T91 altogether but instead follow it up with a multi-touch version, called the T91MT (not the T91A as reported before). It sports a 32Gb SSD (solid state drive) and its price will be at $549 or around EUR 399.
Additionally, the roadmap also contains the Asus Eee PC T101P. This is the first time we hear it being called P instead of H. Does the P stand for the Intel PineTrail spec? We’ll hear later. The T101P will be released in 2010. Under the hood, it will sport a standard Atom N450 processor, Pine Trail and running Windows 7. That sounds like a winner to us!
[Via Netbooked]
Problems on the ASUS Eee PC T91 with playing video on YouTube, Vimeo and other video websites where playback would quickly start lagging are reportedly solved by simply using Firefox or Opera instead of Internet Explorer.
The CPU still needs to run on full power though, German blog TouchMeMobile reports in a new and exclusive unboxing video of the device.
The T91 is expected to be available in retail stores in Germany in September 2009.
A translation of the article is available here.
The long-awaited and even longer delayed Asus Eee PC T91 netbook tablet will hit retail stores in the UK this week, Netbook Choice reports from ASUS UK sources.
Before it was delayed in distribution due to a logistical mishap.
And after that it was delayed to iron out kinks in the interface.
Furthermore, the pre-order price at Amazon UK has dropped from GBP 449.00 to GBP 409.00.
[Via Netbook Choice]
The netbook tablet ASUS Eee PC T91 was just launched this July and has hit retail stores in the UK in August. jkkmobile has put up an interesting unboxing video where he unwraps the model.
The T91 is shipped in a purse in a cardboard boxes. The box includes a power adaptor, driver CDs and manual. Interesting is the Synaptics multi-touch pad which has a unique touch texture on it. It runs XP Home and at first boot you will see an introduction video explaining you how the T91 touch interface works. The touch interface works well but the screen is as we knew before, very very glossy. jkkmobile has promised more videos later.
Courtesy of jkkmobile
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