The thread at RingNokia seems to say that

• Nokia needs to license the more recent Flash player from Adobe
• Adobe does the porting
• There's likely a fair amount of hand-tuning to get it to work on the CPU, OS, browser and hardware

And, obviously, somebody has to fork out the money for development, testing and maintenance.

It always sounded to me like Adobe's attitude was, "Sure, we'd like to have Flash everywhere, but we're not going to spend a lot of money on small markets."

Is Nokia being penny-wise and pound-foolish in not going for a richer license?

Or is Adobe asking an exorbitant amount of money to do the work?

Or is something actually happening already and we just have to be patient?

These are the questions I don't see answers to. But it seems crazy for people with less-powerful devices on smaller screens to be getting a better web experience than users of an 800x480 device running full (not embedded) Linux.