In his own personal blog, Mike Chambers, who is the principal Product Manager for developer relations for the flash platform at Adobe, announced that, “Adobe and Microsoft are working together to bring Flash Player 10.1 to Internet Explorer Mobile on Windows Phone 7 Series.” While he did not offer a timeline or any other specifics he did mention that it is something that Adobe and Microsoft are working closely together on.

This is very welcomed news in the tech world as many unlocked mobile device users have complained about Adobe’s Flash platform not being present on any current mobile devices.  This can really be quite a pain when you are trying to surf the web from your Android or iPhone mobile phones and come across some websites that use the Flash program.

I have never really understood why Adobe would not allow their Flash product to be used on mobile web browsers but it appears as though they are listening to consumer’s cries about the same thing.  This is expected to give Windows 7 phones a major competitive advantage over their competitors.  By having the Adobe Flash program on their unlocked mobile phones will certainly set them apart from the other companies and give them a great product to market to their loyal customers.

In an earlier press release Motorola announced it’s partnership with Microsoft to use Bing’s search and maps as the default search options on all of it’s Motorola mobile devices in China.  I am sure you have recently heard about Google’s threatened pullout of China which probably helped push this current partnership between Motorola and Microsoft.  The new Bing search and map settings will become the default search setting on Motorola’s Chinese Android phones starting in Q1.  With this announcement Chinese consumers will enjoy a preloaded Bing bookmark on their mobile browser and an enhanced search widget with Bing integration.  Motorola is expanding the capabilities and range of services currently offered to their Chinese customers with the rollout of these new features.  Also, this partnership is described as global so there is a chance that it may actually spread.

This new partnership between Motorola and Microsoft raises a few questions about the current relationship between the two companies that seemed to be so tight with the release of the Droid.  Some people are starting to wonder if this new partnership in China will lead to Motorola developing a new Windows 7 phone series even though they have claimed they are committed to the Android technology.  Only time will tell how Motorola and Google will move forward in their ongoing relationship but this certainly has the chance to throw a few wrinkles in that equation.