Half telephone, half lighter. It will probably make calls and make fireplace.
Have you ever ever needed your telephone to final for days within the wild and light-weight your campfire, too? On the Showstoppers press occasion forward of MWC 2026, I noticed a brand new smartphone from outside electronics firm Oukitel that goals to be an all-in-one system for the rugged digital nomad.
The Oukitel WP63 telephone is round $500 and checks a number 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 behind the telephone, the latter of which might get so vibrant {that a} pop-up warns you to not look instantly 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 function is its skill to begin a fireplace. You may activate that function with a tab on the high of the telephone that is surprisingly tough to flip out. (That is a pleasant protecting aspect that retains it from by chance popping open in your pocket.) As soon as deployed, an electrical coil, just like an previous automotive dashboard cigarette lighter, prompts by way of an app. There is a setting to maintain it lit for 4 to 10 minutes, in idea, to heat your environment.
I need to be sincere that I did not see the telephone gentle something on fireplace — the preproduction unit at Showstoppers obtained too scorching to display 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 might 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 an enormous 27mm thick. That is virtually equal to 4 of the brand new Samsung Galaxy S26 telephones (7.2mm) stacked on high of one another.
