【英语科技】香港旺角：手机爱好者的天堂

Hong Kong's mobile-phone mall in Mongkok is legend among the region's gadget aficionados. The shops in the mall stock the latest gear, from the newest Apple Inc. products to their Chinese-made knockoffs.

Tech consumers all over Asia descend on the mobile phone mall to find the items they can't find in Tokyo, Singapore or Bangkok--at least not at the prices they can get in Hong Kong. The shopkeepers in Mongkok stay on the cutting edge of the product release cycle by arranging purchase and transport of the items months ahead of time, as they did for the highly anticipated release of the iPad in the spring.

The merchants had less lead time for the iPhone 4, which launched in several countries just a few weeks after it was announced, but they have been no less efficient in managing its import and sale in Hong Kong.

Lam Thuy Vo/Wall Street Journal iPhone 和其他电子设备展示在香港旺角附近的手机商场。香港旺角的手机商场是该地区手机粉丝中的传奇，这些商场中的小店拥有从苹果（Apple Inc.）的最新产品到中国大陆生产的山寨机，不一而足。

全亚洲的科技产品消费者涌入旺角的这些手机商场，寻找他们在东京、新加坡或曼谷难以买到的商品──至少不是在香港就可以买到的价钱。旺角店主提前几个月安排商品采购和运输，在商品发布周期中占据着最领先的位置，就像他们在今年春天倍受瞩目的iPad发布时所做的一样。

至于iPhone 4，商家的领先时间少了，这种手机在发布几周后即在几个国家推出，但商家在进口及在香港出售方面效率还是不错。