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Motorola targets the ultra-premium market with its new high-end flagship phone
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Motorola has unveiled the Signature 27, an ultra-premium candybar smartphone priced at $1,600. The device will debut in the US, with preorders starting on Nov. 19 ahead of an open release on Nov. 26. Both color variants—Pantone coal smoke and capulet olive—will include 512GB of internal storage and 12GB of RAM. [3][2]
The phone features Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 processor, a 7,000-mAh silicon carbon battery, and 90-watt wired charging. The camera array includes a 200-megapixel periscope telephoto sensor offering 3x optical zoom and 100x Super Zoom Pro, flanked by 50-megapixel wide, ultrawide, and front-facing cameras. [3]
Motorola is promising seven years of software and security updates, matching support periods from Samsung and Google. Software additions include features from Android 17 and Motorola's own Qira AI assistant, which is designed to work across Lenovo hardware. The premium price point positions the Signature 27 directly against rival flagships like the $1,600 512GB Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra. [3]
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