Key facts
- Motorola said the Signature 27 carries 12GB of memory and 512GB of storage, with no memory upgrade option.
- Motorola claims 12,000 nits peak brightness for the 6.8-inch tandem OLED panel, which it calls the highest of any smartphone.
- Motorola said the 7,000 mAh silicon-carbon battery is the largest of any mainstream smartphone and claims up to 12 hours of use from 12 minutes of charging.
- Motorola said the phone ships with Android 17 and promises seven years of OS updates.
- Motorola said the Signature 27 is the first Moto phone covered by its GrapheneOS partnership, but it will not ship with that system preloaded.
- Motorola has not announced carrier partnerships, so buyers must purchase from Motorola, Best Buy or Amazon.
Motorola announced the Signature 27 on November 5, 2026, a non-folding flagship phone it priced at $1,599.99, above the high-end flagship phones from Samsung and Apple. The device goes on sale November 26, with preorders opening November 19. Motorola has not announced carrier partnerships, so buyers will purchase directly from Motorola, Best Buy or Amazon.
The phone runs Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip with 12GB of memory and 512GB of storage, and Motorola offers no upgrade option for more memory. It has a 6.8-inch 120Hz tandem OLED display that Motorola says reaches 12,000 nits of peak brightness, which the company calls four times higher than the iPhone 18 Pro Max and the highest of any smartphone. The 7,000 mAh silicon-carbon battery is the largest of any mainstream smartphone, according to Motorola, which estimates two days of use per charge and claims up to 12 hours of usage from 12 minutes of charging with a compatible USB-C charger that is not included.
The rear camera array has three cameras, a 50MP primary, a 50MP ultrawide and a 200MP 3x optical zoom, plus an event-based vision sensor that powers a feature called Action Shot for tracking moving subjects. The phone ships with Android 17 and Motorola's Hello UI, and Motorola promises seven years of OS updates. Motorola says the device will get Google's agentic app control, Create My Widget, Sign-to-Text and Rambler voice input in the coming months, and it carries Motorola's own AI features under the Motorola Qira platform.
The Signature 27 is the first Moto phone covered by Motorola's partnership with GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused Android build without Google apps. Motorola does not intend to ship a version with GrapheneOS preloaded, leaving installation to buyers, with details to come later.