Devices today are becoming increasingly complex, but for all their complexity, the ability to play Flash videos is almost always limited to smart phones. Qualcomm and Adobe though, are going to change that by making dumb phones a little more flash friendly, announcing that they will bring flash to the BREW platform. BREW is primarily used here by Verizon Wireless and Alltel, to customize their devices’ interface.

Many phones like the Glyde and Voyager have plenty of horsepower to play some basic flash videos, and both are based on BREW. It is unclear what the minimum specifications are for a device to play the videos, for example on devices like the U470 Juke it would not even be practical. It is likely though that there will be a good enough number that this will all be worth while.

Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM) and Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) today announced the BREW® Mobile Platform with integrated Adobe Flash® technology and new platform features. BREW Mobile Platform, which leverages Qualcomm’s widely deployed BREW Client software, greatly expands the capabilities for developers and enables them to create rich applications and Web content in Adobe Flash for the BREW environment. -Press Release