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
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.
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]
On Wednesday, an anonymous source confirmed to Asus Tablet the final specifications of the Asus Eee PC T101H netbook tablet. It is the sister tablet to the ASUS Eee PC T91 (whose models have been confirmed on Tuesday) and the biggest difference between the two is the size.
The T101H will appeal to more advanced users as it sports a 10.1″ screen as opposed to the T91’s 9″ screen. It is not clear if the T101H will have the same amount of variations as the T91 but we can only hope, or should we? The specifications right now show the T101H to have the same specs as the most upscale models of the T91, the ASUS Eee pC T91, the ASUS Eee pC T91go and the ASUS Eee pC T91A (the unknown but possible T91Ago)
It holds a full GPS chip, 3G abilities and a multi-touch interface. To make you even more exited, here’s a hands-on video with the T101H:
According to ASUS UK, the T101H is expected in the end of August 2009, or early September 2009.
Specifications for the T101H
Is this the netbook tablet we’ve actually all been waiting for? Should we consider the T91 as just a sample version of the real thing?
Tell us which tablet netbook you would now choose, in the comments.
Update: ASUS UK confirmed to us the anonymous source is not correct about this information, as the specifications are not even known by them.
An exclusive video showing a demo of the final graphical user interface of the Asus Eee PC T91 and T101H netbook tablet, we have today. Some features it shows include a touch-sensitive task switcher to move between programs by simply dragging or making hand gestures on the screen from left to right. Also a central menu button on the bottom of the screen is shown, touching this button opens up an array of most used applications such as a calendar, Internet Explorer or your notes, this menu is customizable.
A visual widget interface is also included in the Asus tablet , it enables you to add widgets to your screen to use with just your fingers on the touch screen. Asus has also brought us a top menu bar with which we can quickly change settings on the tablet netbook. Very essential is the on-screen keyboard. It is large enough to be used with fingers and makes it possible to never switch back to the real keyboard agian!
A touch-sensitive visual photo application is included as well, this looks particularly interesting. It enables users to interact with their photos as if they were lying on a table. Juggling them around or sorting them in a photobook which can be then viewed by moving the pages over. It reminds us of Microsoft Surface. Next is the notes application, it enables users to write notes with either the included stylus or their fingers, our expectation was that it would look pixely and low-quality but it actually looks like real handwriting.
Very impressive to say the least and surprisingly smooth for a tablet PC that is in fact a netbook with limited specifications.
The number of different Asus Eee PC netbooks is staggering. With complex model numbers it becomes confusing for customers and makes it difficult to choose one. Therefore Asus has decided that it will phase out all of its netbook models except for the Seashell 1008HA, the Seashell 1005HA and the T91 (and T91GO) and T101Htablet netbooks. The best-selling 1000HE (known for its 10-hour battery life) will be phased out first and replaced by the 1005HA. It is a dramatic step for Asus to phase out one of its best-selling models, apparently they have a strategy made they want to follow now. What that strategy is, we can only guess.
FCC has just given the Asus T91 clearance to be sold in the US. The FCC clearance documents show us many new photos of the tablet netbook.
As you can see, the T91 does not have a user-removable battery, which is unfortunate.
The T91’s RAM is upgradeable to 2GB from the standard 1GB. It has dual SSD card reader. One is for normal usage and one is for disk expansion, to create more internal storage.
There is a SIM card slot on the GPS chip, it seems to be possible to replace the GPS chip with a 3G chip, enabling the mobile functionality of the T91.
No news from the FCC about the Asus T101H though, we hope to see that one cleared by the end of June.
Asus seems to single-handedy be creating a whole new product segment. Like they did by being one of the first producing the early netbooks and starting a trend for other manufacturers like Acer, HP and Dell to follow. Now they are doing it again with their tablet netbooks T91, T101H. They are not even out yet, but already other manufacturers are inspired to jump in.
The demand for a small compact 8″ to 11″ swivelling netbook with a touchscreen is expected to be huge. It bridges the the gap between touch phones like the iPhone, HTC Touch and XPeria and netbooks/laptops without any touch functionality. Especially with costs of touchscreens decreasing rapidly (just look at the modded netbooks with $100 touchscreens already), manufacturers are enthusiastic to go for it.
Here’s two of the first tablet netbooks other than Asus’s that will be available soon, they are by Chinese manufacturer Fuyijama (related to Fuji?):
Fuyijama E1001
Fujiyama E-1001
Display: 180 degrees swivelling
CPU: Intel Atom Processor N270 1.6GHz
Chipset: Mobile Intel 945GSE Express Chipset+ICH7M
OS:Windows XP Home Edition
Harddisk: 2.5” 160GB SATA 5400rpm Samsung
Memory:1GB SO-DIMM*1(Max 2GB)
Screen:10.2″ TOUCH TFT-LCD WXGA 1024*600
Camera: Built in 1.3M pixels camera
LAN: Ethernet 10/100BASE-T
Wireless: 802.11 b/g/n,502.16optional)
I/O Port: USB*3,Mic-in,Earphone-out,D-Sub,RJ45,Express Card,
4-in-1 card reader（SD/MMC/MS/MS Pro, DC-in.
Audio: Speaker 1.5 watt*2
Bluetooth: Built-in V2.1+DER
Battery: Li-ion 4 cells, 4500mAh
Warranty: One year
Fuyijama E-1005
Display: no swivelling functionality
CPU: Intel Atom Processor N270 1.6GHz
Chipset: Mobile Intel 945GSE Express Chipset+ICH7M
OS:Windows XP Home Edition
Harddisk: 2.5” 160GB SATA 5400rpm Samsung
Memory:1GB SO-DIMM*1(Max 2GB)
Screen:10.2″ TOUCH TFT-LCD WXGA 1024*600
Camera: Built in 1.3M pixels camera
LAN: Ethernet 10/100BASE-T
Wireless: 802.11 b/g/n,502.16optional)
I/O Port: USB*3,Mic-in,Earphone-out,D-Sub,RJ45,Express Card,
4-in-1 card reader（SD/MMC/MS/MS Pro, DC-in.
Audio: Speaker 1.5 watt*2
Bluetooth: Built-in V2.1+DER
Battery: Li-ion 4 cells, 4500mAh
Warranty: One year
The lowest price right now for the T91 is $499.99 at AmazonWe will continue to update this, if we see lower prices
Where to buy the Asus T91 for the lowest price, that’s the question! The cheapest retailers for the EeePC models are generally not the physical retail computer stores (although they have some nice deals sometimes), but rather the online retailers. One of them is Amazon. They have offered the full range of EeePC’s for the lowest price. Ofcourse it will still take until June until the T91 drops, but you can already prepare to pre-order it at Amazon’s Asus EeePC page, to be sure you are one of the first to get it.
Do you know a retailer with lower prices than we have found now? Tell us in the comments!
Hi! My name is Heather. Apart from being marketing director for a medium enterprise consultancy firm, I’m a big-time gadget freak. I can’t leave the house without my iPod Nano, XPeria and MacBook Pro!
I a follow the gadget news a lot and it was just announced that Asus will be releasing the first tablet netbook! This means a netbook with a touchscreen. I can’t wait! Writing my notes with a pen when I’m in the subway or in class, or just watching a movie without having a lame keyboard on there!
From this website I will be updating YOU about the first netbook tablets Asus will introduce and show you how these tablet netbooks are creating a whole new segment in consumer computing.
Take care and keep reading!
No news from the FCC about the Asus T101H though, we hope to see that one cleared by the end of June.
Fuyijama E-1005
Display: no swivelling functionality
CPU: Intel Atom Processor N270 1.6GHz
Chipset: Mobile Intel 945GSE Express Chipset+ICH7M
OS:Windows XP Home Edition
Harddisk: 2.5” 160GB SATA 5400rpm Samsung
Memory:1GB SO-DIMM*1(Max 2GB)
Screen:10.2″ TOUCH TFT-LCD WXGA 1024*600
Camera: Built in 1.3M pixels camera
LAN: Ethernet 10/100BASE-T
Wireless: 802.11 b/g/n,502.16optional)
I/O Port: USB*3,Mic-in,Earphone-out,D-Sub,RJ45,Express Card,
4-in-1 card reader（SD/MMC/MS/MS Pro, DC-in.
Audio: Speaker 1.5 watt*2
Bluetooth: Built-in V2.1+DER
Battery: Li-ion 4 cells, 4500mAh
Warranty: One year
, to be sure you are one of the first to get it.
Do you know a retailer with lower prices than we have found now? Tell us in the comments!
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