eStation Zeen is HP Slate? Update: Or a Compaq Android tablet for printing?
By Thomas Ricker 
posted August 5th 2010 10:20AM
posted August 5th 2010 10:20AM
Update: This is crazy, but we've now gotten multiple tips claiming that the Zeen is actually an Android-based tablet with e-reader functionality that can also dock with an HP printer and become its interface. E-reading, Zeen, magazine -- get it? Based on HP's repeated previous statements about webOS hitting printers and tablets, we'd assume the Zeen has since been shifted over to Palm's OS, but we can't be sure, as that would undoubtedly add development time and we're told this thing has been kicking around for months.
Whatever this is, it appears HP still has some work to do: one of our sources described the Android-based prototype as feeling like a "brick" and being "extremely unpolished" with poor battery life. It's also been pointed out in comments that the CQ in the product number typically indicates a Compaq device, so that could eventually be the branding. We'll see what's real soon enough, we suppose.
Zeen?
WTF HP?
@Tes Is 'zeen' supposed to suggest magazine, or are they trying to confuse Zune buyers?
@Tes
Well they are in Hanover Street which sounds an awful lot like "hangover" street. Who knows...
@Tes
maybe it's a tie in product with the dead MS Keen One and Keen Two.
@Tes
That doesn't have to be the final name I don't think.
@sweet greggo part deux
curse you and your updates, engaget!!
So no-one's actually Zeen it yet? Sorry I had to do it.
@darkly
I Zee what you did there.
@ChazClout
The zeens are NOW DIAMONDS!
@darkly: It'll be a Lean, Zeen, iPad-killin Machine!
@darkly
BaZeee-ng
yeah, as Zeen on engadget.
@darkly I've zeen enough!
@darkly I guess I should have Zeen it coming
@216 ..if it has web os. If not it will be another piece of HP shit.
@Awall1987
Way to ruin the combo, buddy.
@RogueGenius
C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!!!
All right people, we have rules! -claps- Just hold your breath until the next bit of rumor comes out.
God, I hope that's not the real name.
WebOS!!! here it comes!
@2her0ck On a printer interface apparently...
"We need a hip name that kids can relate to.."
"Maybe something with a Z in it, or use the letter K instead of C. Kids love that."
"Hmm, Zibby, Zabby, Kool-Tabletz..."
"Zeen?"
"That'll do. Lets break for the day. Have a fat bonus"
@voodoo
Kool Tabletz sounds better than estation zeen.
@memaf "Estation Zeen" sounds like a video game.
@bstump Commander Zeen?
Because stupid names like kin and pre scream success
@FlyingAero
Kin surely did try screaming but no one heard it...
@2her0ck What?
Oh HP, don't you know that when you name something that starts with the letter Z you instantly make it less interesting.
Why don't they just get it to FCC and release the damn thing!
Must be a slow day for news if this constitutes an article.
@cybernevets Hey, everyone's got slow news days. Haven't you noticed that with mainstream media?
Maybe something with WebOS???
@Darkly... Ooh... ooh I missed one. So far then, this is only heard and not Zeen.
Does the right hand know what the left one is doing? At HP, apparently not.
Am I the only one who thinks this is gonna end up as a digital photo frame
The Product Number is CQ720. CQ is HP's naming scheme for their Compaq products. It may be nothing but it may also mean it'll be branded with a Compaq not HP logo. That seems dumb on thir part if so.
@mockidol Don't you mean "that Zeem's dumb on their part?"
@mockidol The CQ in the product name is not Compaq. There have been a number of other HP products with the CQ part number.
That, along with the fact the FCC filing used the name HP eStation Zeen and brand name as HP, shows this will be a HP device.
And it isn't the Slate.
can i just have a decent non apple tablet for my light web surfing on the go and MKV,avi movie watching and magazine subscriptions? theres got to be a large market of peopl who want the same thing as me.
I dont even care about apps..Just give me a nice media experience on a tablet already. OH AND 7HRS BATTERY LIFE AT LEAST. thats it..thats all i want. i would get an ipad but i dont like the circles i need to go thru to manage my media and the magazine subscriptions arent robust enough for my likes.
Well..that's a crappy name.
@Dusse
Bloorple, Mlurm and Zouing were taken
The press should really stop posting this bullshit. Every company that even rumors the word "tablet" gets all sorts of free press for their vapor crap. HP has been vomiting this shit for a year now and those people can't even get out of their own way.
@cpd5c45
Engadget = blog
NYTimes = Press
@Wesscoast = bullshit. Engadget reports as much as any press source. Just because they allow blogs does not mean that they ARE a blog. CNN allows comments as well in case you did not notice.
*reads update*
WHAT?! Android on printers? How dumb can HP be?! Stick with WebOS, you know, the one you bought for over a billion, otherwise it's going to die a quiet death.
HP doesn't know what they're doing, WebOS will probably be dead within a year if HP doesn't do something fast.
I would like to remind everyone that I told you this a month ago and you said I was crazy:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/01/hp-palm-buyout-officially-complete-get-ready-for-webos-prin/comments/29011667/
Now can I say "I told you so"?
"Zeen" is actually an idiom in Jamaican patois, somewhat akin to the vernacular use of "cool" as single worded response in US English.
e.g.:
Tom: I got a new BMW
Harry: Cool/Zeen
I guess someone at eStation might be from the islands, hahaha
@LANjackal
i thought the jamaican slang you are referring to was pronounced "seen"
@vanglorious Patois isn't a formally written language, so none of the words have official spellings.