By Larry Dignan | August 15, 2011, 6:01am PDT

Summary: Google’s purchase of Motorola Mobility solves the search giant’s patent problems, gives it a bigger say in hardware integration and fixes a few other issues. Here’s a look at the moving parts.

Google’s aims to fix multiple lingering wireless issues with its $12.5 billion purchase of Motorola Mobility and overall the deal is just crazy enough to work.

On a conference call with analysts, Google CEO Larry Page outlined the rationale for the deal. In a nutshell, Page is betting on mobility as the future of computing (Google statement, blog). But even with the grand themes of software-hardware integration and better user experiences, Google’s purchase of Motorola Mobility cures a lot of ills for the search giant.

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