This smartphone packs a whopping 21,000mAh battery that takes four hours to fully charge

Tired of having to charge your smartphone, at all? Disappointed that your smartphone doesn’t have a standby time of roughly three months? Well, the Chinese company Oukitel might have a solution for you, with their new Oukitel WP19 which is a smartphone with a ridiculous 21,000mAh battery behind it.

With the tagline ‘Mighty battery, Kill your battery anxiety’, the WP19 has one of the largest battery capacities we’ve ever seen on a smartphone in years. With its 21,000mAh capacity, Oukitel says you’ll be able to enjoy 36 hours of video playback, 123 hours of music playback, 122 hours of call time and 93 days of standby time. It even has 33W wired fast charging, but with a battery so big even fast charging takes four hours to fully get it from 0-100%. But the real great perk you get with the WP19 is that it supports reverse charging too, letting you power up your other electronics in a pinch.

Just to be clear, the Oukitel WP19 is seemingly positioned as an ‘outdoors’ type of device, which you can have with you while you camp in the woods, go on a hike or explore the outdoors. That would certainly explain the rugged design it has; the Oukitel WP19 is also IP68, IP69K and MIL-STD-810H certified meaning it should be able to take a knock or two while you’re in the wild. Together with its ultra long battery life, the Oukitel WP19 certainly makes a lot more sense as a secondary device for those who like to spend their time with nature where a power plug is perhaps not that easy to find.

The rest of the hardware on the WP19 isn’t as impressive though. The WP19 has a MediaTek Helio G95 system-on-chip mated to 8GB of LPDDR4X RAM and 256GB of UFS 2.1 storage. If you’re a fan of stock Android though you’ll be pleased to hear that the WP19 comes with stock Android 12 out of the box. It’s display meanwhile is a 6.78-inch, FHD+ IPS display with a 90Hz refresh rate and a layer of Corning Gorilla Glass over it, though Oukitel didn’t specify what version is used here.

As for its cameras, it has a triple camera setup on the rear of the device, with a 64MP main shooter flanked by a 20MP night vision camera and a 2MP macro lens. The front of the device meanwhile has a 16MP camera for all your selfie needs. Other notable features here include NFC, Bluetooth 5.1 and WiFi 5 support as well as a side-mounted fingerprint sensor. If you’re keen, you’ll want to know that the Oukitel WP19 isn’t exactly cheap. A listing for it on the Oukitel official store on AliExpress has it priced at €694 (~RM3,272.21), though at time of writing the same listing prices it at RM2,685.44.

This wouldn’t be the first time we’ve seen a smartphone with an absurd battery strapped on to it of course. Back in 2019, our own Hanif from the SoyaCincau BM team got a chance to take a look at the Energizer Power Max P18K Pop, which as its name suggests packed a 18,000mAh battery under the hood.