Flash Lite

Adobe Flash Lite is a highly optimized implementation of the Flash runtime for mobile phones, consumer electronic devices, and Internet-connected digital home devices.

Additionally, Flash Lite 3 allows developers to quickly create engaging applications, accelerate time to market, and increase customer adoption. With the new distributable player solution from Adobe, developers can directly distribute rich mobile applications with the latest Flash Lite player to millions of smartphones.

[Source: Adobe.com]

The popularity of Flash Lite is much less that that of J2ME which is the current dominate market holder for mobile games (with IPhone currently second, but increasing rapidly).

This is mostly due to the limited number of mobile phones that support it (mainly high end Nokia and Sony Erickson models) and those that do support it likely only support the older releases (e.g. Flash Lite 2.0, 2.1, etc).

Hopefully this will change, as the power of it and ease of development is far superior to J2ME from my point of view, hence the limited support for it currently. But as time goes by, phones become more powerful, and I expect J2ME to lose it majority.

Here's a Flash Lite game, as you can see it is also playable using any Flash Player on a browser. Notice the numbers on the buttons, they allowing using a mobile phone's number pad to play.

Tic Tac Toe (Flash Lite, v1.0)
[Source: ClickGamer.com]

Anyone has any opinions on this? If so, please do comment as I would like to hear what you think.