Motorola Signature 27 Ranks Second in DXOMARK Camera Test

Motorola’s Signature 27 earned a score of 173 and a Gold Label in DXOMARK’s camera assessment, placing the phone second in the lab’s ranking of tested devices. The result puts it one point ahead of Apple’s iPhone 18 Pro and two points behind the Huawei Pura 80 Ultra, which remains first at 175. Motorola says the score makes the Signature 27 the best camera phone launched in 2026. That claim refers to phones released this year that DXOMARK has tested; the lab’s overall table includes the Huawei model, launched last year. The score and ranking reflect DXOMARK’s assessment, rather than independent confirmation of Motorola’s broader claims about the phone. DXOMARK’s testers praised the Signature 27’s portraits, autofocus and video stabilization. They also identified weaknesses, including noise in low-light scenes, motion blur in portraits of moving subjects and reduced detail at long zoom distances compared with phones built around dedicated telephoto lenses. The phone’s rear camera system includes a 50-megapixel main camera, a 200-megapixel periscope telephoto lens with 3x optical zoom and a 50-megapixel ultrawide camera. Motorola has also included a dedicated motion-sensing...