- Motorola announced the Motorola Signature
- This flagship phone is priced between the Samsung Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25 Plus
- It offers an assortment of high-end specs, but its chipset is disappointing
In recent years, if you were looking for a truly premium Motorola phone, your choices were limited to foldables, but now the company is back with a non-foldable flagship phone, dubbed the Motorola Signature.
This handset is the first in a new series, and it has plenty going for it, including four 50MP cameras (one wide, one ultra-wide, front-facing, and a telephoto lens offering 3x optical zoom). It also has a 6.8-inch, 1,264 x 2,780 AMOLED display with a 165Hz refresh rate and up to 6,200 nits of brightness, the latter two specs being higher than you’ll find on most phones.
Additionally, it has a 5,200mAh 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, these specs match or beat even the most expensive competitors, and there’s more here too, with a sleek, premium design and a slim, yet very durable 6.99mm thickness, thanks to IP68 and IP69 dust and water resistance ratings, as well as Gorilla Glass Victus 2 protection and military-grade durability.
Not the best chipset
The Motorola Signature also promises up to seven years of Android OS and security updates. So what’s the problem? Well, although it costs £899.99 (around $1,210 / AU$1,800) – which puts it between the price of the Samsung Galaxy S25 and Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus – it only has a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset.
It’s not the company’s best chipset, with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 – found in the OnePlus 15 and likely to be used by the Samsung Galaxy S26 series – significantly outperforming it.
Testing suggests that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5’s performance is more or less in line with that of the Snapdragon 8 Elite in the Samsung Galaxy S25 series, but we’d expect better for the price of this phone, especially since the S26 series will likely land soon.
But considering all the other specs on offer here, the Motorola Signature could still prove to be a compelling 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 release date for the UK yet (although it looks like it’s coming soon), and no sign of a US or Australian release.
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