Not to be overshadowed by recent smartphone launches from Google, Samsung, and Apple, Motorola formally announced its own new flagship Thursday: the Signature 27. It’s a flex of a phone that’s jam-packed with premium features like a ridiculously bright screen, a 200MP periscope lens, and Bang & Olufsen speakers — and its $1,599 starting price reflects that.
The Signature 27 has a slab-style design with a sloped camera bump and a roomy 6.8-inch “Extreme AMOLED Duo” tandem display. (It stacks two OLED panels on top of one another, just like Apple does in its iPad Pro and new touchscreen OLED MacBook Pro.) With a rated peak brightness of 12,000 nits (not a typo), the Signature 27’s display should be the brightest we’ve ever seen on a smartphone by far.
The Motorola Signature 27 comes in two finishes: Pantone Coal Smoke (pictured) and Pantone Capulet Olive.
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The Signature 27 will also probably be the longest-lasting smartphone we’ve encountered, too. It has a massive 7,000mAh battery, and Motorola rated it for up to 77 hours of use per charge. For comparison’s sake, the new iPhone 18 Pro Max, the battery life champ among the best smartphones we’ve tested, has a 5,567mAh battery that lasts up to 45 hours.
Camera-wise, Motorola said the Signature 27 will have a 200MP Periscope Telephoto lens that can hit up to 100x zoom with its AI-powered “Super Zoom Pro” tool. There’s also a 50MP wide lens, 50MP ultrawide lens, and 50MP front camera, which should make for some fabulous selfies. Notably, Motorola tacks on a dedicated EVS actor sensor that makes it easy to get shots of fast-moving subjects, which it describes as a first for a smartphone.
Motorola said the Signature 27 is the first smartphone with a dedicated EVS action sensor.
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The Signature 27 boasts audio tuned by the luxury audio brand Bang & Olufsen. If you know anything about its speakers and headphones, you know this phone is going to sound amazing. (Motorola and Bang & Olufsen announced a multi-year partnership last month, so it should be the first of many.)
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Here’s a look at some very-zoomed-in shots taken by the Motorola Signature 27.
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The Signature 27 runs on the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip, Qualcomm’s most powerful mobile processor to date, which “accelerates AI… and brings immense power to gaming,” Motorola said. It will support the latest Gemini Intelligence features, including Rambler and Create My Widget.
To prevent the Signature 27 from overheating, the company equipped it with an “ArcticMesh” cooling system featuring diamond-infused thermal gel and a large 3D vapor chamber.
Here’s the Motorola Signature 27 in Patnone Capulet Olive.
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Users can choose from two Pantone-approved finishes: Capulet Olive and Coal Smoke.
The Signature 27 starts at $1,599 with 512GB of storage, putting the Signature 27 on par with Samsung’s high-end Galaxy S26 Ultra (Mashable’s current favorite Android splurge). A Galaxy S26 Ultra with 512GB of storage goes for $1,599.99 as of early October, when Samsung bumped its price by $100 because of the ongoing memory crisis.
According to our sister site CNET, the Signature S27 will launch in the U.S. on Nov. 26. Preorders begin Nov. 19, so stay tuned for more.
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