Motorola Wants to Sell You a $1,600 Phone That Doesn’t Fold

Most notable is the 6.8-inch screen. Motorola claims its “Extreme AMOLED Duo” sheet is the brightest smartphone show connected the market, peaking astatine an eye-searing 12,000 nits. Underneath, it uses tandem OLED tech—stacking 2 panels connected apical of each other—similar to what Apple debuted connected its iPad Pro and touchscreen MacBook.

Even so, Apple's caller show peaks astatine astir 2,000 nits, and astir smartphones contiguous apical retired around 3,600 nits, which is much than capable nits to work the surface successful harsh sunlight. Chinese telephone brands similar Honor and Huawei person precocious touted 10,000-plus max nits of brightness, but those ratings seldom use extracurricular of tiny slivers of the show during HDR playback. Treat Moto’s brightness connection arsenic axenic spec-sheet marketing.

The tech does present amended vigor efficiency, meaning the show uses little powerfulness and could amended artillery life, positive a 121 percent longer lifespan than mean AMOLED panels. The surface besides has a 1.5K resolution, Dolby Vision support, and “Pantone Validated” colour calibration for close colors.

Once a handicap, the company's camera tech has go more competitive successful caller years, and Motorola hopes the Signature 27 volition basal retired with its top-end representation sensors. There's a 50-megapixel Sony Lytia L910 main camera—Sony's archetypal sensor with LOFIC (Lateral Overflow Integration Capacitor) technology, which tin dramatically amended dynamic scope successful a azygous exposure. Basically, it should execute amended successful challenging lighting conditions, with less crushed blacks and blown-out skies.

Next up is simply a 200-megapixel periscope 3X telephoto camera with up to 100X integer zoom, enhanced with generative AI, akin to what Google and Samsung connection connected their respective devices. Rounding things retired is simply a 50-megapixel ultrawide camera and a 50-megapixel selfie camera with 4K video support. Speaking of video, Motorola says its caller video enhancement motor uses AI to optimize color, contrast, and dynamic range, and improved stabilization should marque footage look smoother.

But wait, isn't determination a 4th camera connected the back? No, that's really a dedicated “Event-Based Vision Sensor” (EVS), which Motorola claims is simply a archetypal connected a smartphone. It works with Motorola's Action Shot mode, freezing question truthful photos of moving subjects look perfectly crisp and crisp with nary question blur.

The Signature 27 is among the archetypal phones to usage the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip, announced successful September, the top-end processor you tin expect to spot successful astir flagship Android smartphones successful 2027. Motorola cites amended cooling show with a 40 percent larger thermal enclosure to support the processor moving longer. It comes with 12 GB of RAM and 512 GB of storage.