Half telephone, half lighter. It will probably make calls and make hearth.
Have you ever ever wished your telephone to final for days within the wild and lightweight your campfire, too? On the Showstoppers press occasion forward of MWC 2026, I noticed a brand new smartphone from out of doors electronics firm Oukitel that goals to be an all-in-one machine for the rugged digital nomad.
The Oukitel WP63 telephone is round $500 and checks loads of bins. It is obtained a 20,000-mAh battery — sure, twenty thousand milliamp hours — with an included USB-C port that may cost your different gadgets. It additionally powers the audio speaker and LED lamp embedded at the back of the telephone, the latter of which might get so brilliant {that a} pop-up warns you to not look straight at it to keep away from eye injury.
The highest of the telephone has a chunk that may create a flame.
The Oukitel WP63’s coolest characteristic is its capacity to start out a hearth. You may activate that characteristic with a tab on the high of the telephone that is surprisingly difficult to flip out. (That is a pleasant protecting factor that retains it from unintentionally popping open in your pocket.) As soon as deployed, an electrical coil, just like an outdated automotive dashboard cigarette lighter, prompts through an app. There is a setting to maintain it lit for 4 to 10 minutes, in principle, to heat your environment.
I wish to be trustworthy that I did not see the telephone gentle something on hearth — the preproduction unit at Showstoppers obtained too sizzling to show the lighter impact. However I noticed movies of it working earlier within the night time.
And sure, the telephone is an precise smartphone, too. It runs Android 16 out of the field, with three years of promised software program and safety updates. It has a 6.7-inch Full HD (1,604×720-pixel) show, 8GB of RAM and 512GB of storage and a 64-megapixel rear digicam, so it functioned like an everyday smartphone so far as I may inform after I dealt with it. However if you wish to purchase one when it begins happening sale in April, put together your pockets: the WP63 is a large 27mm thick. That is virtually equal to 4 of the brand new Samsung Galaxy S26 telephones (7.2mm) stacked on high of one another.
