Standing down today and retiring from his role as Chairman of Psion Teklogic is the spiritual Grandfather of Symbian OS, Dr David Potter. He founded Psion in 1980 with £70,000 of his own money, and over the next twenty years grew it to be one of the leading mobile computing companies, and in the process laid the Foundations for the current smartphone with the spinning out of Psion Computers as Symbian in 1999.

His retirement was announced earlier this year, and John Hawkins will now become the chairman of Psion Teklogic. And if you're looking for some weekend reading on Britain's Last Computer, then The Register's Psion retrospective from 2007 is a great read, and has an interview with Dr Potter at the end of the article.

And I know we go on about the Psion heritage and legacy here at All About Symbian (you mean why can't it be like it was in the old days? - Steve) but I'm sure we can have a legitimate "why did you like Psion" appreciative comments thread over the weekend... just this once!

Source: allaboutsymbian.com