The standard interface that Verizon forces onto all of its handsets makes phone geeks very angry, for some reason I've never been quite able to figure out. But there's a lot of inexplicable passion and fanboy-ism around phone interfaces. Still, Verizon's recent announcement that they're redoing their interface in Adobe Flash Lite should please almost everyone.

In the haze that was my trip to the CTIA trade show, I didn't notice that the user interface for the new LG 8300 phone was actually in Flash, making it the first phone in the US with a Flash UI. But the more alert guys at Phonescoop.com did notice, and they even got a video of the Flashy new phone. Click over to their site to see it.

What I did notice was that the 8300 will probably be a best-seller, pushed heavily by Verizon. It's much like the existing VX8100 music-phone, but with stereo Bluetooth - a terrific jump forward for users of Verizon's V CAST music service.