Half cellphone, half lighter. It might probably make calls and make fireplace.
Have you ever ever wished your cellphone 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 cellphone is round $500 and checks numerous containers. It is obtained 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 cellphone, the latter of which may 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 cellphone has a chunk that may create a flame.
The Oukitel WP63’s coolest function is its means to begin a hearth. You possibly can activate that function with a tab on the high of the cellphone that is surprisingly tough to flip out. (That is a pleasant protecting factor that retains it from by accident popping open in your pocket.) As soon as deployed, an electrical coil, much like an previous automotive dashboard cigarette lighter, prompts through 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 cellphone mild something on fireplace — the preproduction unit at Showstoppers obtained too sizzling to reveal the lighter impact. However I noticed movies of it working earlier within the evening.
And sure, the cellphone 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 a daily smartphone so far as I might inform once 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.
