HONG KONG: The likely delayed launch of Apple Inc's new iPhone 6 in China, the world's biggest smartphone market, sparked a race to pre-order the phone in Hong Kong on Friday.
Pre-orders for the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus sold out within two hours on Apple's Hong Kong website — and many of those devices will be smuggled across the border into mainland China, where they could change hands for as much as four times the Hong Kong price.
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