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The big T-Mobile G1 were reviews published today, pretty much everywhere. The new smart phone, which runs Google's Android operating system, goes on sale next week. My eWEEK Labs colleague Andrew Garcia has reviews of the device and mobile app store.

Steve Ballmer should have been explaining how Microsoft has a better mobile strategy than competitors like Apple and Google. Instead, his head is in the computing clouds, where Microsoft mindlessly chases around Google search share. He should have come down to earth long ago.

Mobile phones are the future of computing, and they are ideally suited for accessing Web services. Google makes this point with the T-Mobile G1. Subscribers have single sign-on to Gmail, Google Apps and related services. Data synchronization takes place between the device and the Web. The G1 requires no PC.

More importantly, mobile phones are more appropriate devices for Web search. It's contextual. People are out and about and need X, Y or Z. They can find it with the computing device they always carry—the mobile phone. According to ComScore, Google's worldwide mobile search share is 60 percent. That number should scare Microsoft more than Google's search share from PCs does.

Vista by the Numbers Is a Crock

Steve Ballmer, where is your head at? Come out of the clouds. The earth calls you.

Today, Microsoft's CEO used Vista shipments—more than 180 million licenses since launch—as defense of the operating system's success. Oh? Gee, Steve, have you looked at the cell phone market recently?

During first half of the year, Nokia shipped about 236 million cell phones, according to Gartner. Nokia phones come with Windows Mobile rival Symbian OS. Gartner expects manufacturers to ship 1.28 billion handsets this year, or more than the entire installed base of Windows PCs.

If Steve really wants to use numbers as a measure of success, mobile handset and operating shipments hugely eclipse Windows Vista. There, Windows Mobile briefly burped and now has little more than marketing hot air. If Apple sold as many iPhone 3Gs during third quarter as analysts predict, the Mac mobile operating system will take second place in market share from Research In Motion. Windows Mobile would drop to fourth place. Just a couple quarters ago, Windows Mobile was second to Symbian.