Chris of Netbook Reviews tipped us

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Said to be on track for a release in the UK next month, the 9-inch touchscreen-equipped Toshiba Satellite A60-662 Battery Asus Eee PC T91 has been caught in pictures yet again, this time by UK tech site Electric Pig. Looking at what the Eee PC T91 is now, before its official release, it appears as if Asus has nearly perfected the 9-inch form factor, and considering how good the Eee PC T91 looks as both a netbook and a convertible tablet, the 10-inch Eee PC T101 is bound to be better by leaps. If you are holding off buying any more netbooks before the Eee PC T91 and T101 from Asus, then maybe the latest Eee PC T91 hands-on pictures will be enough to tide you over. See them all at the link below.

Albatron, who we previously reported on for the touchscreen Tee PC, have since been working on a netbook which NetbookNews.de have spotted and captured on photo and video. NetbookNews.de give the netbook a look over and gets the hands on experience on video which you can view after the jump. The Albatron netbook features a 10.2 inch display with 1GB of RAM, Intel Atom N270 CPU, a 6 cell battery and features an ultra thin design weighing in at under 1kg. The netbook is available oshiba Satellite A65 Series Battery with a hard drive or SSD option. No word on what size the HDD is, but the SSD version is available in 8 or 16GB. With the standard netbook specs it’s likely to come with 160GB hard drive specification. No word on price or availability has been released.

Asus is said to be planning on phasing out some Eee PCs in the UK market particularly the older 7 and 9 inch series. As Asus has just released the slim 1008HA Sea Shell in the UK, this will be followed by the release of two other newer Eee PC models - the 1005 and another yet to be named 1000 netbook series along the lines of the 1000H.

Come July, Asus hopes to have only these three Eee PC offerings to the UK market. Imagine how easy it would be for consumers to decide on which of these three 10-inch netbooks all pre-loaded with Windows XP and 160GB HD to decide which one to get, right?

Following the release of the 1008HA, Asus is set to release the new thicker 1005. The Eee PC 1005 will have a removable battery with 12-month collect-and-return warranty. The Toshiba Satellite 2100 Battery Eee PC 1005 will be available for around £350.

If you’re wondering what will happen to the Eee PC 1000HE now? Well it will be one of those to be phased out by Asus despite being one of its bestselling Eee PC to date.

Chris of Netbook Reviews tipped us that he saw a product listing of the upcoming Eee PC 1008HA at Newegg.com. The product listing showed that the Eee PC 1008HA was supposed to retail for $429 at the online retailer. Also the Newegg was supposed to start shipping the Eee PC 1008HA on May 18. This was despite the fact that no US release date has been announced by Asus yet.

Interestingly, a moment after, Chris also found out the the link has been deactivated. The product page is still up, but a note was added that says, “This product is no longer available.”

Could this be a case of miscommunication on the part of Newegg and Asus? Is Asus planning to Toshiba Laptop Battery announce a new price for the Eee PC 1008HA? We’re inclined to believe that we will all find out soon.