Motorola has confirmed that the Signature 27 ships in Germany with the same 7,000mAh battery as everywhere else, correcting a figure that came from its own press material.

The confusion started with Motorola's German press release, which listed the phone at 5,500mAh. That is a sizeable gap, and it was picked up quickly. Motorola has since told Notebookcheck the number was an error, and the German product page now reads 7,000mAh.

7,000mAhGerman battery, typical
6,790mAhRated capacity
1,500mAhThe gap that was not real

What made the original figure plausible is that a 5,500mAh Signature 27 does exist on paper. The EU energy label database lists two variants: one rated at 6,790mAh, which is the 7,000mAh typical figure, and one rated at 5,350mAh, which works out to about 5,500mAh typical. Rated capacity is the conservative minimum a cell is certified to hold, and typical capacity is the number that goes on the box, which is why the two sets of figures never match.

Motorola has not said which markets get the smaller cell. What it has now confirmed is that Germany is not one of them, and the phone is listed at 7,000mAh in Austria, France and the UK as well.

Some specification aggregators still carry the 5,500mAh figure for the German model. Those pages predate the correction rather than contradict it, and they will presumably catch up.