Half telephone, half lighter. It will probably make calls and make hearth.
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 machine for the rugged digital nomad.
The Oukitel WP63 telephone is round $500 and checks numerous bins. It is received a 20,000-mAh battery — sure, twenty thousand milliamp hours — with an included USB-C port that may cost your different units. It additionally powers the audio speaker and LED lamp embedded behind the telephone, the latter of which may 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 skill to start out a fireplace. You’ll be able to activate that characteristic with a tab on the high of the telephone that is surprisingly difficult to flip out. (That is a pleasant protecting component that retains it from by chance popping open in your pocket.) As soon as deployed, an electrical coil, just like an previous automobile 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 sincere that I did not see the telephone gentle something on hearth — the preproduction unit at Showstoppers received too sizzling to exhibit 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 occurring sale in April, put together your pockets: the WP63 is a large 27mm thick. That is nearly equal to 4 of the brand new Samsung Galaxy S26 telephones (7.2mm) stacked on high of one another.
