Saturday, August 25, 2018
Hotel ICON HK executive suite and room tech Part 2
Hotel ICON HK executive suite and room tech Part 2
Continued from Hotel ICON, HK executive suite and room tech Part 1
6. KEF MUO Wireless Bluetooth Speaker - KEF MUO Blueooth/NFC speakers cost upwards of $USD 300.00. It�s an impressive addition to a room that is already equipped with a Samsung display, a gorgeous coffee machine, and a multi-function printer.
7. Travel smartphone - Like most Hong Kong hotels, Hotel ICON furnishes visitors with a smartphone preinstalled with HK maps, talk time, and basic data access. Surprisingly, Hotel ICON provides a device from the somewhat lesser known InFocus brand. It�s not really a big deal, but the last Hong Kong hotel I stayed in provided an entry-level Huawei or Samsung smartphone.
8. Cisco IP phone - I�ve worked with several Cisco IP phones previously and reviewed documentation for some models, so I�m pretty sure that most visitors will probably skip the Cisco for their smartphone instead. Still, it�s a fantastic device if you�re a corporate manager who wants to run conference calls while relaxing and looking at the brilliant view of Hong Kong harbour.
9. Connecting panel - The executive desk has a media hub connector that is routed to the aforementioned Samsung display. It sports legacy S-Video, VGA, RCA, USB, and HDMI 1.x. Two charging sockets are also available, with a universal adapter provided.
A leather wallet includes an extra socket adapter and a CAT5e cable, which is odd because the room doesn�t provide a dedicated Ethernet port. There is an Ethernet port found in a closed compartment underneath the executive desk, but it�s assigned to the Cisco IP phone.
Note: Many business hotels were originally designed to support Cat5 cables and wall sockets, but theyre being removed since Wi-Fi standards and cost have improved in the last 8 years. If you are desperate for an Ethernet connection, you can probably disconnect the Cisco IP phone�s Ethernet cable, though Cisco devices include a network monitoring system. Moreover, hotel network administrators generally structure network addressing to prevent unrecognised devices to connect to the network (though anyone with adequate Linux and BSD experience can probably work around it).
Spending less than 12 hours at the Hotel ICON executive suite made me wish I was one of those overpaid travelling IT professionals. The room was a perfect combination of form and tech functionality, though the city of Hong Kong and the hotel has so much to offer, I�m sure even the most avid digerati will ignore the many tech toys in the their room.
