Half telephone, half lighter. It could make calls and make hearth.
Have you ever ever needed 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 plenty of containers. It is bought 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 vivid {that a} pop-up warns you to not look instantly at it to keep away from eye harm.
The highest of the telephone has a chunk that may create a flame.
The Oukitel WP63’s coolest function is its capability to start out a fireplace. You’ll be able to activate that function with a tab on the high of the telephone that is surprisingly tough 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 by way of an app. There is a setting to maintain it lit for 4 to 10 minutes, in principle, to heat your environment.
I need to be sincere that I did not see the telephone mild something on hearth — the preproduction unit at Showstoppers bought too sizzling to show the lighter impact. However I noticed movies of it working earlier within the evening.
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 digital camera, so it functioned like a daily 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 nearly equal to 4 of the brand new Samsung Galaxy S26 telephones (7.2mm) stacked on high of one another.
