While iPads in hotel rooms are all the rage right now, the Langham Place Hotel Hong Kong hasn't forgotten the power of the iPhone. After all, you can make phone calls from it.The luxury hotel in Mongkok is adding iPhone 4s to its soon-to-open Essential Place Plus Rooms which...
December 20, 2010
Back when the Langham Place Hotel in Hong Kong had just opened back in 2004 we were excited to hear them talk about "omnipresent Wi-Fi" but a little skeptical about whether or not it would live up to the hype. So we thought we'd better check back in on...
April 23, 2008
As most people who suffer from technophilia know, a lot can change in a year. In the year that we released our first Best Geek Hotels List, the iPhone beat out every other cellphone on the market, the MacAir usurped the MacBook and saved shoulders worldwide, Guitar Hero and...
March 04, 2008
A big round of accommodation deals in Asia has been flooding over our screens this week. And why shouldn't we go to the continent where the weather is always warm? First up is the Amari spa and hotel chain, offering the Ultimate Relaxation Spa package at $600 for three nights....
May 16, 2007
Thanks to cell phones, hotel telephones are almost as extinct as an actually room key. Not at Hong Kong's hyper luxe The Langham Place, where high tech phones are protocol.The Langham is the first hotel in the world to install color, touch screen Internet Protocol phones. That's IP phones to...
November 02, 2006
Hong Kong's first new five-star hotel to open in Kowloon in a decade is calling itself "the World's Most Technologically Advanced Hotel". The Langham Place Hotel, Mongkok has combined Cisco's IP Phone system with Crystal Voice's "Click-To-Talk" solution to enable the whole world to communicate with their guests through computers....
June 15, 2004
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