As you may have noticed, there were a few reports making the rounds earlier today that suggested Flash 10.1 for Android would be limited to phones running Android 2.1. Adobe itself didn’t seem to be saying much about the matter, however, so we inquired with them and received a statement that raises about as many questions as it answers. According to Adrian Ludwig, group product marketing manager for Flash Platform:

The key detail there, obviously, is that support for the full Flash Player 10.1 will indeed require “some enhancements” to current versions of Android, meaning that one way or another you’ll have to update, and that an update for every Android phone isn’t necessarily guaranteed. What the statement doesn’t confirm, however, is whether those “enhancements” are, in fact, Android 2.1, or an update of some sort that will follow Android 2.1 — we’ll let you know if we get any further clarification on that.