- Motorola has announced the signing of Motorola
- This flagship phone is priced between the Samsung Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25 Plus
- It has a variety of high-end specs, but its chipset is disappointing.
In recent years, if you wanted a truly high-end Motorola phone, your options were limited to foldables, but now the company is back with a non-foldable flagship phone, called the Motorola Signature.
This phone is the first in a new series and has a lot to offer, including four 50 MP cameras (one wide angle, one ultra wide angle, front and a telephoto lens that offers 3x optical zoom). It also has a 6.8-inch 1264 x 2780 AMOLED display with a 165Hz refresh rate and up to 6200 nits of brightness, with those last two specs being higher than what you’ll find on most phones.
Additionally, it has a 5,200 mAh battery with 90W wired charging and 50W wireless charging, 512GB of storage, 12GB of RAM, and a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset.
For the most part, those specs match or beat even the most expensive rivals, and there’s more here too, as it has a sleek, premium design and is thin at 6.99mm thick, but very durable, thanks to IP68 and IP69 dust and water resistance ratings, along with Gorilla Glass Victus 2 protection and military-grade durability.
It is not the best chipset
The Motorola Signature also comes with the promise of up to seven years of Android operating system and security updates. So what’s the problem? Well, despite costing £899.99 (about $1,210 / AU$1,800), which puts it between the price of the Samsung Galaxy S25 and the Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus, it only has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset.
This is not the company’s best chipset, as the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which can be found in the OnePlus 15 and will likely be used by the Samsung Galaxy S26 series, outperforms it substantially.
Testing suggests that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5’s performance is roughly in line with the Snapdragon 8 Elite at least on the Samsung Galaxy S25 series, but we’d expect better for what this phone costs, especially since the S26 series is likely coming soon.
But given all the other specs on offer here, the Motorola Signature could still prove to be an attractive smartphone. We’ll let you know for sure once we’ve given it a full review, but if you want to buy it you’ll have to wait – there’s no confirmed UK release date yet (although it looks like it’s coming soon) and no sign of any release in the US or Australia.
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