This morning Google officially acquired Motorola Mobility for 12.5 billion smackaroos! That’s one trillion two hundred fifty billion pennies and 60% above the Friday share-price.

According to Google CEO, Larry Page, “Motorola Mobility’s total commitment to Android has created a natural fit for our two companies. Together, we will create amazing user experiences that supercharge the entire Android ecosystem for the benefit of consumers, partners and developers.”

Google chose Motorola out of 39 manufacturers of handsets that operate with Google’s Android.

What’s so great about Motorola?

• They introduced the world’s first portable cell phone 30 years ago.
• Motorola is a Founding member of the Open Handset Alliance, responsible for making Android the first complete, open, and free mobile platform.
• Since 2008, Motorola has been operating solely with Android.
• Motorola is not limited to handsets, in fact they are  a market leader in home devices and video solutions.

Motorola can also keep Google safe from the patent police. Android has been the target of Microsoft and Apple anti-competitive patent show-downs resulting in an intervention from the U.S. Department of Justice. With the acquisition of Motorola, Google’s patent portfolio is looking buff: 17,000 patents (over 12,00 of which are cell-phone patents) and 7,500 pending.

Now that Google has Motorolla they can get their hands in handset phones and the tablet among other technology. This “supercharging” of the “Android ecosystem” is a huge wake-up call to other mobile handset makers as well as Microsoft who might consider adopting a handset maker of their very own in light of this morning’s news.

Google could be putting all their eggs in one basket with Motorola Mobile, seeing as competing handset makers may gravitate towards Windows operating systems. But Lately, Google has the Midas touch and I smell a G-Phone.

Furthermore, beyond a dinky phone are other future technological possibilities: Android is going to be integrated everywhere! According to Huffington post blogger, Jeff Jarvis:

The real war here is over signal generation: Google, Facebook, and to an extent Apple and telcos and others want us to generate signals about ourselves — who we are, where we are, what we want, who we know, what we’re looking for, where we’re going — so they can better target their content, services and advertising…

But I’ve also been saying that mobile will become a meaningless word as we become connected everywhere, all the time. Who’s to say or care whether we’re connected with a phone as we walk, through our car, on our couch via the TV, in the kitchen via the iFridge, or at the desk (remember that?). Mobile=local=me.

And speaking of “me”, Tech Crunch reported that Google just acquired the domain name Android.me.

Google is moving into the unabated grandeur of the Apple thunder-dome. As Steve Jobs once said, “people who are really serious about software should make their own hardware.” We will see what the tech innovation beast, Googorola, turns out in the future.