- Motorola has announced the Motorola signature
- This flagship phone is priced between the Samsung Galaxy S25 and Galaxy S25 Plus
- It has a range of high-end specs, but its chipset is disappointing
In recent years, if you’ve wanted a really high-end Motorola phone, your choices have been limited to foldables, but now the company is back with a non-folding flagship called the Motorola Signature.
The first of a new series, this handset has a lot going for it, including four 50MP cameras (a wide, ultra-wide, front-facing and a telephoto with 3x optical zoom). It also has a 6.8-inch 1264 x 2780 AMOLED display with a 165Hz refresh rate and up to 6,200 nits of brightness, with the latter two specs higher than you’ll find on most phones.
In addition, it has a 5,200 mAh battery with 90 W wired charging and 50 W wireless charging, 512 GB of storage, 12 GB of RAM and a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset.
For the most part, these specs match or beat even the most expensive rivals, and there’s more here too, as this has a stylish, premium design and is slim at 6.99mm thick, yet highly durable thanks to both IP68 and IP69 dust and water resistance ratings, along with Gorilla Glass Victus 2 protection and military-grade durability.
Not the top 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 catch? Well, despite costing £899.99 (roughly $1,210 / AU$1,800) – putting it between the price of the Samsung Galaxy S25 and Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus – it only packs a Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chipset.
This is not the company’s best chipset, with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 – which can be found in the OnePlus 15 and is likely to be used by the Samsung Galaxy S26 series – significantly outperforming it.
Tests suggest that the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5’s performance is more or less on par with the Snapdragon 8 Elite in the Samsung Galaxy S25 series at least, but we’d expect better for what this phone costs, especially since the S26 series is likely to land soon.
But given all the other specs on offer here, the Motorola Signature can still prove to be a compelling smartphone. We’ll let you know for sure once we’ve gone through 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 sounds like it’s coming soon), and no sign of any US or Australian release.
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