Half cellphone, half lighter. It could actually make calls and make hearth.
Have you ever ever needed your cellphone 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 outside electronics firm Oukitel that goals to be an all-in-one gadget for the rugged digital nomad.
The Oukitel WP63 cellphone is round $500 and checks loads of packing 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 gadgets. It additionally powers the audio speaker and LED lamp embedded at the back of the cellphone, the latter of which might get so shiny {that a} pop-up warns you to not look straight 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 capacity to start out a hearth. You possibly can activate that function with a tab on the high of the cellphone that is surprisingly difficult 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 As soon as deployed, an electrical coil, just like an outdated automobile dashboard cigarette lighter, prompts by way of an app.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 wish to be trustworthy that I did not see the cellphone gentle something on hearth — the preproduction unit at Showstoppers obtained too sizzling to display the lighter impact. However I noticed movies of it working earlier within the night time.
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 digital camera, so it functioned like a daily smartphone so far as I may 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.