Today at CTIA we announced that TI will join the Open Screen Project to help deliver optimised Adobe® Flash® Player and Adobe AIR® for their OMAP 3 platform targeting mobile phones and MID devices.

TI OMAP is a key platform in the mobile space, these chipsets power many of the worlds leading smartphone platforms including S60, the Palm Pre and the Samsung OMNIA range. It’s also used heavily the Archos platform that I described below enabling the Archos user base an unparalleled experience.

For developers this announcement means that you can expect the Flash Players of the future to work even better with modern devices, enabling you to create richer experiences. We’re constantly shifting to higher and higher resolutions and Flash will have to cope with HD video streams, so it’s essential to work with chipset vendors to ensure that Flash is not just part of the platform, but that it’s designed to work with it from the start.

We expect to release a beta of this new Flash Player later in the summer on many platforms. At the end of 2009 we ship to our Open Screen Project partners, and we expect to see the first devices in early 2010.

We have more of these types of announcements in the works of course