Besides being lambasted by critics for not including a basic function such as copy-paste onto the iPhone (even in its new avatar), the next thing that draws ire from critics is the inability of this otherwise smart-phone to run Adobe Flash on it.

So far things were at an impasse with both Apple and Adobe having nothing to say. Users were however not happy since the Apple iPhone easily gives one of the best experiences of surfing on the world wide web on a mobile device. However without Flash the experience did leaves a bitter after taste.

Belgian designer/coder Thomas Joos seems to have the solution. Joos did figure out how to get Flash on an actual iPhone to run his app, a guide to the 2008 Rock Werchter music festival in Belgium.

To be clear, Joos hasn't yet gotten Flash to work on an iPhone the way it does on a computer -- as a Web browser plug-in -- so it won't be much use for looking at the millions of Flash animations or videos already on the Web. But it's an interesting proof-of-concept that -- if turned into an open-source or commercial service -- could allow Flash developers to quickly become iPhone developers.

However for this system to work you would need to jail break your phone, something Apple does not look kindly upon. Besides with the Apple iPhone Apps store coming online soon, jailbroken iPhones arent going to be so much fun either.

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