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Motorola's $1,600 flagship phone arrives this month
The Motorola Signature 27 packs top specs and a 12,000-nit screen, but costs nearly as much as a foldable.
In brief
The Motorola Signature 27 packs top specs and a 12,000-nit screen, but costs nearly as much as a foldable. Motorola launches the Signature 27 flagship smartphone at one thousand five hundred ninety nine dollars ninety nine cents, featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip and a twelve thousand nit OLED display…
Motorola's new flagship phone
Motorola is launching the Signature 27, a non-folding flagship smartphone that fills a gap in its US lineup.
Design and materials
The Signature 27 is made of metal, ceramic, and glass with textured polycarbonate backs. It comes in Coal Smoke, a black color with a tactical weave finish, or Capulet Olive, a green textile-inspired color.
Processor and memory
The phone runs the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, Qualcomm's most powerful mobile chip. It has twelve gigabytes of memory and five hundred twelve gigabytes of storage, with no option to upgrade the RAM.
The display
The Signature 27 has a six point eight inch OLED screen with a one hundred twenty hertz refresh rate.
Camera system
The phone has four image sensors: a fifty megapixel primary camera, a fifty megapixel ultrawide, a two hundred megapixel three times optical zoom telephoto, and an event-based vision sensor for tracking moving subjects called Action…
Battery and charging
The Signature 27 has a seven thousand milliamp hour silicon-carbon battery, the largest of any mainstream smartphone and one thousand milliamp hours larger than the Galaxy S26 Ultra.
Fast charging speeds
With a compatible USB-C charger, the Signature 27 supports up to ninety watts of wired charging. Motorola claims up to twelve hours of usage in twelve minutes of charging with wireless charging at fifteen watts.
Software and AI features
The phone ships with Android 17 and Motorola's Hello UI customizations, with seven years of OS updates promised.
GrapheneOS option
The Signature 27 is the first Motorola phone covered under its partnership with GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused operating system built on Android without Google apps or tracking.
Availability and pricing
The Signature 27 will go on sale November twenty sixth. Preorders start November nineteenth. The phone will be available directly from Motorola, Best Buy, or Amazon, with no carrier partnerships announced yet.
The big picture
Motorola launches the Signature 27 flagship smartphone at one thousand five hundred ninety nine dollars ninety nine cents, featuring a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip and a twelve thousand nit OLED display, arriving November twenty sixth.
