If you were planning on buying a Motorola Signature, you may want to try to do that right now – the phone was originally slated to cost €1,000 in the EU, but its price in Finland unexpectedly shot up to €1,300 just before launch.
It’s not quite clear what happened – Motorola contacted local publication SuomiMobiili to notify them of the price hike but offered no reasons as to why this last-minute change was necessary. The launch package includes a free Moto Watch and Moto Buds Loop, which are valued at €228 (but that’s not enough to account for the €300 price hike).
Motorola Finland is now showing a €1,300 price tag for the Signature
The good news is that the phone is still showing up at €1,000 in most of the other euro markets that we checked: France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands and Spain. Motorola Italy is showing €1,100, though.
Note that only Motorola UK and Ireland have the phone listed as available, all the other stores that we mentioned (including the Finnish one) just have “notify me” buttons.
Motorola Signature
The Motorola Signature should go on sale on January 30, i.e. tomorrow, since Motorola will stop accepting pre-bookings today. That said, for Nordic countries, the Signature is scheduled to launch on February 17.
For what it’s worth, we found the Signature at €1,000 on a third-party store in Finland, so maybe it’s not too late to pick one up at the old price.