--- title: Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support | daily.dev description: Motorola announced the signature 27, its new flagship smartphone with a camera system that earned a DXOMARK Gold Label. It features an Extreme AMOLED Duo... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/motorola-signature-27-with-grapheneos-support-rvfdo4jqb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support | daily.dev og:description: Motorola announced the signature 27, its new flagship smartphone with a camera system that earned a DXOMARK Gold Label. It features an Extreme AMOLED Duo... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/motorola-signature-27-with-grapheneos-support-rvfdo4jqb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/RvfdO4JQB.png og:image:alt: Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 10 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Motorola announced the signature 27, its new flagship smartphone with a camera system that earned a DXOMARK Gold Label. It features an Extreme AMOLED Duo Tandem display with up to 12,000 nits peak brightness, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chipset, and Audio by Bang & Olufsen. The phone has a 7000mAh battery, 35% larger than the previous generation, with 90W TurboPower charging in 12 minutes. It will be Motorola's first device supporting GrapheneOS. Pricing starts at $1,599, with availability in markets worldwide in the coming months. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### Which Motorola phone is the first to support GrapheneOS? The Motorola signature 27 is Motorola's first device to support GrapheneOS, a hardened, open-source operating system based on the Android Open Source Project, developed in partnership with the GrapheneOS Foundation. It also includes a performant implementation of ARM Memory Tagging Extension, a hardware caching mechanism for system integrity and privacy. _Developers tracking privacy-focused Android hardware can follow GrapheneOS device support on daily.dev._ ### What is the starting price of the Motorola signature 27? The Motorola signature 27 has a starting MSRP of $1,599 and will be available in markets worldwide in the coming months. It ships with a Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chipset, a 7000mAh battery, and a DXOMARK Gold Label camera system. _Anyone comparing flagship phone specs and pricing can keep tabs on new releases via daily.dev._ ## Community take How the wider developer community reacted, aggregated from 1 discussion and 136 comments across hackernews (as of 2026-11-05). **TL;DR:** The discussion is dominated by distrust of Motorola's Chinese ownership and modem/firmware blobs as a security risk for GrapheneOS, alongside widespread complaints that the $1,599 price is too high, with a GrapheneOS team member actively rebutting misconceptions throughout. **Sentiment:** 20% positive · 35% mixed · 45% skeptical **The case for** - Some see it as a meaningful expansion of premium hardware options for GrapheneOS beyond Pixels, with 7 years of update support matching Pixel's commitment. - The device reportedly has a proper dedicated secure element and full MTE support, an upgrade over prior Qualcomm chips. - Older hardware getting long-term current software support is seen as valuable for sustainability and reducing vendor lock-in. **The pushback** - Many worry Motorola's Lenovo/Chinese ownership and proprietary baseband/bootloader blobs could introduce backdoors or supply-chain risk regardless of the OS. - The $1,599 price is widely called unjustifiable, with several saying they'd rather buy a cheap used Pixel for GrapheneOS. - Some think the curved display and chipset performance (compared to other Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 devices) are disappointing choices. - Concern that poor sales due to high pricing could be unfairly blamed on GrapheneOS itself, discouraging future manufacturer partnerships. **By community** - hackernews (heated): A contentious back-and-forth over Chinese ownership, firmware trust, and geopolitics dominates, with price complaints and a GrapheneOS representative repeatedly clarifying facts. **Hottest debate:** Whether Motorola's Lenovo/Chinese ownership and closed firmware blobs make the phone untrustworthy for a privacy-focused OS, despite GrapheneOS's own security guarantees. **Open questions** - Is GrapheneOS itself independently audited to address supply-chain/backdoor concerns raised about the hardware? - Will there be a cheaper, budget-tier Motorola device with full GrapheneOS support in the future? - Could U.S. government action against Chinese-made devices eventually affect availability or support for this phone? **Highlights** > I don't know if I can trust a motorola phone with grapheneOS. Motorola is owned by a Chinese company that has recently been caught for injecting affiliate codes in users purchases. Yes, I know it won't be Motorola's OS but they do modify a large part of the BSP (bootloader, modem, etc.) with their "mot_sec" additions which you'll find if you reverse engineer any motorola firmware. It's unclear if qualcomm will give grapheneOS permission to rebuild or see the source code everything else. Modern phones run multiple operating systems like in the DSP, modem, trustzone, etc. > — [smithbob on hackernews · 9 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50381278) > No, Motorola Solutions is an entirely different company from Motorola Mobility. Those aren't part of the same company and aren't business partners. Motorola was split into both companies all the way back in 2011. Motorola Mobility was acquired by Google in 2012 and sold to Lenovo in 2014. Motorola Mobility owns the Motorola trademark and Motorola Solutions has a limited perpetual license for it for use with existing classes of products. > — [grapheneos on hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50382549) > Indeed, I was planning to buy this but the price is way too high. My biggest fear here is that the price causes the device sales to be poor, and people blame grapheneos for it > — [freedomben on hackernews · 3 comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50382121) > I have a Pixel 10 that I'm looking to install GrapheneOS on, but even at $1599 I'm still intrigued by this. It seems they are trying to build a real long term device with few downsides, which is a big contrast to a lot of Motorola's recent phones. > — [passive on hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50381218) > The people who specifically want Graphene have a different use case, generally speaking. This is a phone for hackers and drug dealers and enemies of the state and perhaps some types of bankers, and the tinfoil hat Gribble contingent. Everyone in that list will pay whatever it costs without much of a second thought. > — [sneak on hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50383180) **Source threads** - [hackernews](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50380810) · 221 points · 136 comments ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Motorola's GrapheneOS phones will launch in 2027 priced higher than Pixels](https://daily.dev/posts/motorola-s-grapheneos-phones-will-launch-in-2027-priced-higher-than-pixels-ue3qzxpqq) · Lobsters · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Vivo launches X300 flagship series in SA with 200MP Zeiss cameras](https://daily.dev/posts/vivo-launches-x300-flagship-series-in-sa-with-200mp-zeiss-cameras-73nmcijbr) · TechCentral · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [The Motorola Razr Fold is the best foldable you can buy right now, hands down](https://daily.dev/posts/the-motorola-razr-fold-is-the-best-foldable-you-can-buy-right-now-hands-down-cdozllquo) · XDA Developers · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/motorola-signature-27-with-grapheneos-support-rvfdo4jqb) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Motorola Signature 27 with GrapheneOS support","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/motorola-signature-27-with-grapheneos-support-rvfdo4jqb","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/motorola-signature-27-with-grapheneos-support-rvfdo4jqb"},"datePublished":"2026-11-05T17:09:56.364Z","dateModified":"2026-11-05T19:21:10.860Z","description":"Motorola announced the signature 27, its new flagship smartphone with a camera system that earned a DXOMARK Gold Label. 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