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Motorola Launches $1,600 Signature 27 With 7,000mAh Battery, EVS Action Sensor, Android 17 Updates
“The only thing is you’ll have to download Graphene yourself, as it won’t come preinstalled.”
“The Signature 27 will also support the privacy-focused GrapheneOS — a first for Motorola, and for a mainstream phone sold in the US, for that matter.”
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Signature 27 costs $1,600 at launch. It features a 7,000 mAh battery.
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Signature 27 Goes Ultra
Motorola’s Signature 27 arrives as a $1,600 ultra-premium flagship with a 7,000mAh silicon-carbon battery and a dedicated EVS action sensor, and it runs Android 17 with seven years of OS updates. Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chipset powers the Signature 27, and the phone includes a 50MP Sony LYTIA L910 main sensor, a 200MP periscope telephoto camera with up to 100x zoom, and a 50MP ultrawide camera.
The Signature 27 will be available for pre-order from November 19 and fully available for sale from November 26, with a starting price of $1,600. GrapheneOS is supported on the Signature 27, and the phone pairs a 6.8-inch tandem OLED screen with IP68/IP69 ratings and up to 90W wired charging and up to 50W wireless charging.
Display, Charging, and Cameras
The Signature 27 includes 90-watt wired charging and a 7,000-mAh silicon-carbon battery, and it describes the phone’s 12,000-nit peak brightness as “absurdly high.” ArcticMesh cools the Signature 27 by pairing a thermal gel infused with micro-diamonds with an 8,384 mm² vapor chamber that is 40% larger than the predecessor’s.
The Signature 27 has 12GB of memory and 512GB of storage, and the camera setup is described as three standard cameras plus an event-based vision sensor to power Action Shot. Motorola’s EVS is “Event-Based Vision Sensor,” and it works with Motorola’s Action Shot mode to freeze motion so photos of moving subjects look “perfectly crisp and sharp with no motion blur.”
Ecosystem and Availability
Moto Buds Ultra 27 and Moto Watch Fit 27 will see a North American release in the coming months, and the buds include built-in Motorola Qira support plus AI Live Translate. US buyers can pre-order the Signature 27 starting November 19 through Motorola, Amazon, and Best Buy, with unlocked sales beginning November 26, and the phone is priced at £1,299.99 in the UK.
Motorola is also announcing updates to its wider ecosystem, including the Moto Watch Fit 27 claiming up to 12 days of battery life and the Moto Buds 27 offering Bose ANC with IP57 ratings for both the buds and the case. The Signature 27 will be sold universally unlocked for $1,599.99 MSRP at only one configuration, with pre-orders opening on November 19 at Motorola.com, Amazon.com and BestBuy.com and the phone officially going on sale on November 26.