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Have you ever wanted to phone To last for days in the wilderness – and start your own campfire, too? At the Showstoppers press event for Mobile World Congress 2026I saw a new smartphone from a third-party electronics company Oukitelwhich aims to be a one-stop device for digital nomads.
The Oukitel WP63 is priced at €499 and will arrive in “all countries” next month. It checks a lot of boxes. It has a 20,000 mAh battery – yes, twenty one thousand mAh – with an included USB-C port for charging other devices. It also powers a large speaker and an LED light on the back, the latter of which can get so bright that a pop-up dialog box warns you not to look at it directly to avoid eye damage.
While it may not reach the level The best phones we saw at MWCyou get many of the campsite essentials on an Android device that can answer calls if you don’t mind placing a heavy external battery near your ear.
The startup tab on the Oukitel WP63 is located at the top of the phone.
But the coolest feature of the Oukitel WP63 is its fire-starting ability. You can activate this feature through a tab that appears at the top of the phone, although it’s surprisingly difficult to flip. (This is a nice protective element that keeps it from accidentally opening in your pocket, though I struggled to open it intentionally.) Once deployed, an electrical coil, similar to an old-fashioned car dashboard cigarette lighter, is energized via an app. There’s a setting to keep it on for 4 to 10 minutes, in theory, to warm up your surroundings.
I want to be honest that I didn’t see the phone catch anything on fire – a pre-production unit at Showstoppers got too hot to show the effect of the lighter, and when I visited the Oukitel booth on the MWC show floor, the same demo unit still couldn’t ignite a spark. But I’ve seen videos of it working, so I think it could work. The big question is whether the final version will have this feature or not. While the phone works without it, novelty is undoubtedly part of the phone’s appeal.
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And yes, the phone is a real smartphone too. It runs Android 16 out of the box, with three years of software and security updates promised – a limited period that’s sadly much less than the seven years guaranteed by Samsung and Google. It has a 6.7-inch HD (1,604 x 720 pixels) display, 8GB of RAM, 512GB of storage, and a 64-megapixel rear camera, so it works like a regular smartphone as far as I can tell when I’m handling it.
But if you want to buy one when it goes on sale in April, prepare your pockets: the WP63 is 27mm thick. That’s roughly the equivalent of four new devices Samsung Galaxy S26 phones (7.2 mm) stacked on top of each other.
Compared to other mid-range phones, the WP63 is a mixed bag, with shorter software support and a lower resolution in its 720p screen than the HD (1080p) resolution found in competitors. But it offers exactly what many phone owners say they want: a massive built-in battery, easily four times larger than the 5,000 mAh capacity of most premium phones. Add to that the very bright lights, a decent speaker, and the ability to build a campfire, and it’s a phone I would definitely want to bring outdoors with me.