Charles Davies competence not be as right away tangible as some alternative attention veterans, though anybody that’s been following this business since a early days of PDAs will no disbelief be informed with his work. Davies was Psion’s really first worker approach back in 1981, and stranded with a association all a approach up until 2003 when he left to join Symbian, before moving on to Nokia with the rest of a Symbian staff a couple of years later. During that time, Davies helped Psion colonize a make use of of peep memory and law silicon in handhelds, served as Symbian’s CTO, and helped Nokia head up the strategy and design group for its R&D division. What’s some-more, as The Register notes, Davies move to TomTom usually serve bolsters the ex-Psion ranks at the company — he’ll be joining former Psion CTO Mark Gretton, as well as former hardware exec Ken McAlpine, who assimilated TomTom dual years ago after a stint at Apple. Still no word on what Davies’ expect purpose at TomTom will be, but the company has reliable a pierce, and promises to yield more details during some indicate.

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