All reports on this are conflicting. If you check out the latest podcast from Engadget they say that at Google I/O, Google stated it wasn't going to be hardware accelerated, but the interview that Engadget conducted with Adobe Labs they specifically said the Nexus One is going to be hardware accelerated. No one really seems to know. Some believe that Adobe is kind of picking hairs by saying that because 2D may have software acceleration, but not 3D or it will only have acceleration for non-flv files and such. I've also heard reports that the Snapdragon platform on its one cannot have actual hardware acceleration(but I can't verify that outside of conversations with other gadget hobbyists). They really shouldn't call this mobile version 10.1 because people will think the experience will be the same as a desktop edition, when it really isn't. No one quite knows.

Back to the topic of the thread, I think its a big ridiculous that Nokia can't make the effort to update Flash. As some have said, they've been demoing 10.1 on the N900 as early as Fall 2009(granted the reports may be incorrect about the version) and here we are 6 months later and Nokia has nothing concrete about the topic. I'm not even asking for hardware acceleration, but just allow us to see the content. I have no real idea of what the difference from Flash 9 to Flash 10(or even Flash 10 to Flash 10.1), but I don't understand why Flash is so fragmented in the sense that its not backwards compatible by any means.

They really just need to do something because for this device to already be nearly done in a 6 month span is an extreme disappointment. I understood that the lack of apps was a shortcoming, but the Browser was meant to complete the experience, but without all the features of the Browser, the phone will be a bit disappointing. I haven't even finished paying the thing off yet!

Maybe Lightspark will someday give us a usable alternative on N900:

http://lightspark.sourceforge.net/

Yeah well nokia sees their sales drop by the minute. iphone os and android are taking over the market fast. with this attitude of nokia they will run out of business very soon.

I read because of this lack of making good devices nokia is seeking a new CEO (unofficialy read about it). Nokia with its old fashion way of working is destroying their company. they need to innovate very fast with less phones and great support! Not making a new phone for every new feature they come up with!

I dont know how much longer it will take until nokia understands this.

If the support yet again is dropped, this time for my n900, then this will be my last nokia also.

I find it interesting you mention the iphone in a thread about flash. Given that it has never had (and chances are never will have) flash of any kind.

This thread is only nominally about Flash. The real problem is Nokia's habit of releasing hardware and then almost immediately abandoning it. The symbian guys are used to it -- s60 3rd ed / 5th ed hurt a lot of people -- but a lot of Maemo users were attracted by the technology and weren't aware of Nokia's unwillingness to support the people who buy their phones.

The other great example of this exists on this very form -- find the thread called "Fixed in fremantle and the diablo community ssu." Nokia used to be great about OS support on the N-series internet tablets. They even released a "hacker edition" of maemo 4 that would work on the oldest tablets. Then they started planning Fremantle, and the minute that happened the Diablo users were screwed forever. Ironically, the last big update for Diable enabled installing updates over the air, so you didn't have to reflash... and then the updates stopped coming. Fremantle killed Diablo over a year before the Fremantle SDK even came out.