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This dude on Droid-Life said he got the Moto book style foldable & it's better than the Fold 7. This new Signature 27 reminds me of the Motorola Droid days when I was still using their phones back then. I hope they've updated their customization options. That & the lackluster camera upgrades from 2010-2014 is what made me switch to Samsung but like you my interest is piqued.
I generally stay far away from Motorola phones due to their lackluster software updates, but they have been making efforts to improve on that as of late. I hope they address all of our concerns with this smartphone.
So everybody should just copy Samsung then? That's not how design works. Things change. Also, unless you take a lot of mirror selfies or rest your phone face down, you'll rarely see what the back of it looks like. I see the displays of my S24 Ultra, 17 Pro & 10 Pro XL way more than their camera setup.
If it works then why mess with it? Thats like trying to complain about phones having a flat screen because Apple did it. It works and it looks a lot better than whatever this monstrosity is.
Motorola has been 'knocking it down a notch' for the last 8-9 years. This is the first Flagship they have released in the US in that same time. If they are going to make a flagship, why not go all the way? There's plenty of cheaper options.
I used to buy exclusively Moto phones starting in 2010 all the way through 2018, and every single year they would knock it out of the park. I never had to doubt if their newest phone was good enough, I would just buy it because it was the best you can get. They invented the fricking cell phone for fu¢ks' sake! They NEED to do better. This phone has the BEST available SoC, LPDDR6 RAM, UFS 5.0 storage, Bluetooth 6, WiFi 7, 10-bit screen, 165hz refresh rate, IP68/IP69 (Which makes it MIL-STD-810H compliant), 7 major OS updates, Bang & Olufsen speaker, and a phenomenal camera setup. This is what Moto fans have been waiting for, if you want a cheaper phone, there's no shortage of options for you.
It definitely looks exciting. I'm sure the all the tech reviewers will appreciate it. It will be a viable option to be on the stores next to Samsung and Apple. But I'm a budget buyer and I don't pay for a phone on payment plans. In an age where all the prices are sky rocketing, wouldn't it make sense to offer something a tier down? The SD 8gen2 and Gen 3 had more than enough speed for everything I ever want to do on a phone as well as stay snappy for a long time.
But what Moto has never done (and what peaked my interest most of all) is combine ANY of their other phones (either low or high end - see the RAZRs before the Fold) with 7 years of support. EVERY moto release, the first thing I do is see how long the software support is. I have erased EVERY single Moto phone from my list of possibilities because they have never done more than 3 years for any of their regular phones except for one, I believe, and it never came to the States. I totally would have figured out how to get last year's Moto Edge if it had 7 or even 5 years of support - just need decent performance, great battery life, and not crap cameras. Just like every other Moto, it got 2 OS updates and it shipped with Android 15! Never an option. I'm probably a niche buyer but with so few options for Android phones in the US combined with soaring prices, I figure Motorola could take advantage of a possible opportunity here 🤷♂️
You must not have been around when Motorola dropped the Droid Bionic in September, the Droid Razr in November & the Droid Razr Maxx in January during the 2 year contract days.
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If anyone made the 5 sensor layout tolerable it was samsung,and this is coming from someone who bought exclusively Motorola before.
This dude on Droid-Life said he got the Moto book style foldable & it's better than the Fold 7. This new Signature 27 reminds me of the Motorola Droid days when I was still using their phones back then. I hope they've updated their customization options. That & the lackluster camera upgrades from 2010-2014 is what made me switch to Samsung but like you my interest is piqued.
I generally stay far away from Motorola phones due to their lackluster software updates, but they have been making efforts to improve on that as of late. I hope they address all of our concerns with this smartphone.
So everybody should just copy Samsung then? That's not how design works. Things change. Also, unless you take a lot of mirror selfies or rest your phone face down, you'll rarely see what the back of it looks like. I see the displays of my S24 Ultra, 17 Pro & 10 Pro XL way more than their camera setup.
If it works then why mess with it? Thats like trying to complain about phones having a flat screen because Apple did it. It works and it looks a lot better than whatever this monstrosity is.
"It works and it looks a lot better than whatever this monstrosity is."
Oh, you've had access to both devices & done a full comparison? Drop the link to your review.
Motorola has been 'knocking it down a notch' for the last 8-9 years. This is the first Flagship they have released in the US in that same time. If they are going to make a flagship, why not go all the way? There's plenty of cheaper options.
I used to buy exclusively Moto phones starting in 2010 all the way through 2018, and every single year they would knock it out of the park. I never had to doubt if their newest phone was good enough, I would just buy it because it was the best you can get. They invented the fricking cell phone for fu¢ks' sake! They NEED to do better. This phone has the BEST available SoC, LPDDR6 RAM, UFS 5.0 storage, Bluetooth 6, WiFi 7, 10-bit screen, 165hz refresh rate, IP68/IP69 (Which makes it MIL-STD-810H compliant), 7 major OS updates, Bang & Olufsen speaker, and a phenomenal camera setup. This is what Moto fans have been waiting for, if you want a cheaper phone, there's no shortage of options for you.
It definitely looks exciting. I'm sure the all the tech reviewers will appreciate it. It will be a viable option to be on the stores next to Samsung and Apple. But I'm a budget buyer and I don't pay for a phone on payment plans. In an age where all the prices are sky rocketing, wouldn't it make sense to offer something a tier down? The SD 8gen2 and Gen 3 had more than enough speed for everything I ever want to do on a phone as well as stay snappy for a long time.
But what Moto has never done (and what peaked my interest most of all) is combine ANY of their other phones (either low or high end - see the RAZRs before the Fold) with 7 years of support. EVERY moto release, the first thing I do is see how long the software support is. I have erased EVERY single Moto phone from my list of possibilities because they have never done more than 3 years for any of their regular phones except for one, I believe, and it never came to the States. I totally would have figured out how to get last year's Moto Edge if it had 7 or even 5 years of support - just need decent performance, great battery life, and not crap cameras. Just like every other Moto, it got 2 OS updates and it shipped with Android 15! Never an option. I'm probably a niche buyer but with so few options for Android phones in the US combined with soaring prices, I figure Motorola could take advantage of a possible opportunity here 🤷♂️
You must not have been around when Motorola dropped the Droid Bionic in September, the Droid Razr in November & the Droid Razr Maxx in January during the 2 year contract days.
True, I was there (i even remember Android 1.6 - times hehe).