This could be a significant moment for Motorola in India, as the smartphone maker takes full advantage of the sales momentum to launch the fourth product umbrella in its portfolio. This is the Signature series, which will essentially sit alongside the Razer foldables in terms of premium positioning and experience, the Edge series as well as the Moto G phones for a slightly lower price band. The momentum has been evident over the last few quarters. In Q3 2025, Motorola’s 52.4% year-over-year shipment growth gave it 8.3% market share (up from 5.7%). It’s a good time to introduce the logical successor to the Moto edge 70 phone.
Motorola Signature, a simple naming scheme that is much appreciated, is priced at ₹Starting at Rs 59,999 (though there are some launch offer discounts you might want to keep in mind). This phone, a flagship with a price in ‘flagship killer’ territory, is in direct competition with the OnePlus 15 or Vivo ₹72,999 while the latter expects you to drop it ₹75,999. And if you’re paying that much for the Motorola Signature, you’re buying something with a higher experience baseline for a little more money than the Vivo V60 or OnePlus 15R. Clearly, someone at Motorola found this safe haven in a space that otherwise seems overwhelmed by the competition. And that fine attention to detail doesn’t stop there – the Motorola Signature has become one of the rarer options with 12+256GB and 16+512GB variants, as well as a 16GB RAM and 1TB storage combination.
Before I talk about the specific design elements that define Motorola Signature, it’s important to understand the trajectory that has brought us here. The impressive Edge 70 that was launched a while ago has a textured finish on the back and before this, Motorola has also tried wood finish, marble finish and regal vegan leather finish in the previous generations. Achieving the Motorola signature Pantone Martini Olive color with its twill-inspired finish has clearly been a part of the effort. It has a great fabric-esque texture and feels very similar to it. It’s not the thinnest, at least at first glance, but it’s just 6.99mm thick, and the flat slab design makes it quite convenient. Very few of you would notice at first glance that the audio is tuned by Bose.
Motorola Signature has become one of the debut phones abroad, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chip train, the second is impressive oneplus 15r. Remember earlier I called Signature a flagship in flagship killer territory? The context comes from this comparison, in which the OnePlus 15R lacks wireless charging, high-resolution audio support, and is a step behind in terms of camera hardware – these small and major details matter. Motorola has kept the ratio really strong on that front, and this is where it’s a step ahead of alternative, more value-oriented flagships. Performance is nothing to complain about, and this is also helped by Motorola’s newly designed cooling system ‘Arctic Mesh’ – you may not realize it most of the time, but it helps keep things cool, which helps maintain performance levels for longer periods of time. Most noticeable during gaming, or extensive video recording use. But then again, the choice of the Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 chip wasn’t just performance, but it also provides the foundation for app performance, on-device AI, and image as well as video processing.
The sliced ​​GPU architecture means up to 11% improvement over the previous generation and up to 28% better power efficiency. Qualcomm’s Hexagon Neural Processing Unit claims up to 46% improvement in AI performance, which is a great underpinning for the Moto AI suite. This is a good time to talk about the fact that it includes Perplexity’s model, as well as Microsoft’s CoPilot model for Ask Perplexity and Ask CoPilot features as part of universal search. If you feel a little overwhelmed by what the Moto AI can do, you wouldn’t be wrong. There’s just a lot going on, which should definitely provide value in the long term. This time, Motorola is dividing the AI ​​suite into three main categories – assist, understand, and create.
Create includes elements like personalized suggestions for creating portraits or avatars or even styling photos, and an extensive image studio, while Assist has something called Catch Me Up that puts together a summary of notifications and messages in the apps you select. Sense can sometimes be a bit hit and miss, depending on what utility you want to get out of it, from transcribing meetings to implementing Moto AI to sharing any screenshots, text or links with it for later reference.
The display with Pantone validated colors, and being the first phone with Sony’s 50-megapixel LYTIA 828 camera sensor, form key elements that crown the overall Motorola Signature experience. I’ll talk about the cameras first, which is a particularly impressive trio of a LYTIA 828, a 50-megapixel LYTIA 600 periscope camera, and a 50-megapixel ultra-wide camera. The Motorola Signature’s photography results are impressive not only because of the flagship optical stack, but also because of the ancient image processing algorithms that define how the photos you click ultimately make it to the gallery. There’s real depth to photos in terms of contrast, black levels and accuracy of skin tones, especially in difficult lighting conditions.
You have to be a little wary of the fisheye effect when photographing a subject or object up close, but stepping back and zooming in a notch produces great results. Low-light photos are particularly impressive, and although you still need to hold still a few seconds longer than usual, optical image stabilization with all-pixel focus technology means subjects look much sharper and more detailed than many other phones can manage in similar lighting. It also has a pretty strong base for OIS video stabilization, which is an industry first due to it having a 3.5 degree OIS angle. The Motorola Signature can record 8K video at 30fps and all sensors can record 4K video at 60fps. The main sensor can also be up to a slow 120 frames per second, and in all cases, you’ll be most impressed by the dynamic range as well as the accuracy of the colors produced by the neutral processing approach.
At the moment, the camera app has one significant drawback – it does not always remember the previous settings for shooting and the style selection, which can be fixed with a future update, remains a bit of a hassle for now. The Super Zoom Pro, which is the headliner for 100x AI powered zoom on the periscope lens, will provide mileage depending on what you’re shooting and your preference for details that can sometimes be clearly artificially enhanced. The idea Motorola is moving forward with is clearly usable zoom photos, and to that extent, it delivers.
Motorola claims this is the brightest display in a smartphone with Pantone valid colors, and I wouldn’t argue with that claim, given how well this screen illuminates even in fairly bright afternoon sunlight. Interestingly, Motorola calls the Signature’s 6.8-inch screen Extreme AMOLED, with a peak brightness of 6200 nits and support for 1.5K resolution at 165Hz. The battery capacity of the Motorola Signature is equally impressive. Claimed to be the largest battery ever on an ultra-thin phone, 5200mAh, providing approximately 7 hours of screen usage time. Initially, 6% battery was drained overnight in standby and this continued for about 4 days after setup, but this was later reduced to 3% when the situation stabilized. Also fast charging over wired and wireless, at 90-Watts and 50-Watts respectively, which can get this silicon carbon battery ready for the day in no time.
There’s a clear sense that Motorola is checking off every imaginable point on the signature flagship checklist, without really trying too hard. Does it effectively reset the baseline of key expectations? Motorola is making changes to the specifications and experience without really making this the main attraction of this product. The processor selection, camera optimization, tuning of the display, and Moto AI’s attempt at usefulness all point to one thing – the Motorola Signature is a deliberate and well-thought-out smartphone. The price is also good, but ₹59,999 and that price tag should make competitors rethink their flagship pricing. More than anything else, this firmly re-establishes Motorola as a serious major player. Getting things this right in a field where there is very little margin for error is no small feat.
