Pre-orders for the iPhone Duo, Apple’s first foldable iPhone, open today, Friday 16th October, at 3pm Kenya time. The phone goes on sale a week later, on 23rd October. Apple isn’t selling it in Kenya itself, and Kenya isn’t among the 18 countries it named for the first wave. So if you want one here, you’ll be buying it from a local shop.
Abufulan Store is one of them. It already has an iPhone Duo page up, marked available from 23rd October, in all four storage sizes: 256GB, 512GB, 1TB and 2TB. To place an order, call the shop on 0792029968, message @abufulan_store on Instagram, or walk in at Jamia Mall, shops G62 and G63, Nairobi CBD. If you can’t get to town, the shop delivers.
If you missed the launch, the Duo folds like a book. Closed, it’s a phone with a 5.4-inch screen. Open it and there’s a 7.6-inch screen inside. It runs on the A20 Pro, the same chip as the iPhone 18 Pro, and unlocks with Touch ID in the side button instead of Face ID. We went through everything Apple announced on launch night.
Why we buy from Abufulan
Abufulan is an authorised Apple reseller. The Jamia Mall shop is on Apple’s own reseller locator for Kenya, listed for iPhone, Mac, iPad and Apple Watch. That matters when a new iPhone is scarce and grey stock of uncertain origin starts doing the rounds.
It’s also where we shop. We’ve bought a good number of gadgets from Abufulan over the years, and every one arrived genuine, untouched and sealed in its box, at a fair price.
Abufulan hasn’t put an official price on the Duo yet, so ask when you call. Apple’s US price starts at $1,999 for 256GB, or about KES 259,000. Phones brought into Kenya cost more than that once taxes and shipping are added. For a sense of the shop’s pricing, Abufulan had the 256GB eSIM iPhone 18 Pro at KES 190,000 on 14th October, against a US price of $1,199, about KES 155,000.
Two things to sort before it arrives
The Duo takes an eSIM only. It has no SIM tray, so your number has to move from your plastic SIM to an eSIM before the phone can make calls or run M-PESA. Safaricom does this at its shops for KES 150 on prepaid, with your original ID, and Airtel also issues eSIM QR codes in store. Plan that shop visit for the day your Duo lands.
Second, ask who handles warranty repairs. Apple’s iPhone warranty lets it restrict service to the country where the phone was first sold, and Apple hasn’t launched the Duo in Kenya. A shop you can walk back into, with a fixed address in town, is the one to buy a KES 260,000-plus folding phone from.
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