IT Pro Verdict

It wins an extra point just for being different but only if it cost slightly more than a regular netbook would the touch screen be enough to sway a purchase. However, the performance issues and and the reduced battery life over conventional models mean that at the price we don’t think the T-91 is worth the extra outlay.

By Benny Har-Even

Published 5 June 2009 In Reviews

The memo app lets you write large on virtual yellow post in notes, and once you've written your note you can send it to your desktop or email it to a friend, though this seems a little gimmicky.

The notebook pad application is perhaps the meat and potatoes app. It enables you to write on the screen in one of three ways firstly you can draw on the screen directly, secondly you can write in a box at the box at the bottom of the screen, which then converts your text, much like old school PDA's, or thirdly bring up an on screen keyboard. Trying for a while the latter was the only one I felt comfortable with, but then that does beg the question of why you're bothering with a touch screen device anyway.

That said, I could envisage it in action, say at a conference, where a user could use one to take down names like a digital clipboard as they walked around.

There's also a full screen calculator, which works well, especially in 'engineer' mode expands out to fill the whole screen and there's an internet radio, though that is only a trial application and costs $20 to use.