This week we've seen a number of unique and exciting things relative to the evolving mobile user experience.  Most notable is an announcement from Adobe making Flash 10 available in the mobile environment.  This version for flash was initially released for the PC/x86 architecture, but now is available in the mobile environment.  With this announcement, Flash 10 capabilities are available on a range of ARM processors, everything from ARM11 and beyond, including the ARM Cortex-A8. 

TI has been supporting Flash technology for some time, delivering Flash 9 support on the Nokia N800 series. Earlier this year, TI announced plans to support Flash 10 and we are now delivering on this promise.  In addition to enable Flash 10 on the OMAP platform, TI will also enable hardware acceleration of video and graphics.

Adobe demonstrated the first mobile Flash 10 experience on a Palm Pre running on an OMAP 3 processor, showing how the user experience will change when consumers have access to full Flash content.  In addition, Adobe also demonstrated Flash 10 on the Nokia N900, which also uses the OMAP 3 processor.  While the initial N900 products will support Flash 9.4, Flash 10 support will be available via software update in 2010. 

We are very excited to see full Flash support entering the mobile environment. With this capability, the Flash experience on a PC will be identical to that of a mobile device.  As an added benefit, these new devices not only get the full Flash experience, but they will also deliver the power advantages for which ARM is known!