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Not Alan Partridge tells us: "I was once offered the chance to co-present a programme on national radio. Audience of millions, but blew up spectacularly, my entire contribution being the rustling of paper in the background. I was that bad, I have since burned my copy of the pilot show." Tell us about your big break, and how you messed it up.

(I helped save b3ta! Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 14:22)
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A laptop?
I worked with TomTom and Garmin in the very early days and they were already wince and palmos based. Are you sure the gaydrugs haven't addled your memory?
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 19:08, 1 reply)
TBH, I think that you may have held them back. Oh wait, let me get to my filofax map of UK roads.
Windows CE and Palm - big sales.
(I helped save b3ta! d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Thu 3 Apr 2014, 20:37, closed)
I can't parse that into a meaningful English sentence. soz

(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 8:26, closed)
Okay, how did the devices runnning WINCE and PALM connect to the GPS satellites in late 2000/early 2001?
What were the restrictions on battery technology for most portable devices?

There are many more questions which I am sure you as an important member of the TOMTOM team would have been able to quickly overcome to bring about the launch of their first standalone consumer product in 2004.
(I helped save b3ta! d.r._and_quinch when will you be famous?, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 9:34, closed)
typical liebolic...he'll delete it shortly

(I helped save b3ta! Albert Marshmallow is a completely irredeemable cunt, Fri 4 Apr 2014, 9:41, closed)
Garmin had a single package GPS receiver. Two or possibly three chips: rf and mixed signal plus their own (iirc) in-house DSP with an ARM core. They wanted to ditch the ARM and share the processor of the host devicee
I don't recall what TomTom used as we only did a bit of consultancy about integrating with US cell phone platforms.

If they were doing field tests then they'd almost certainly use laptops for gathering debug data. Perhaps that's what you were remembering?

Hth.

Still no idea what your previous post says.
(I helped save b3ta! Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Sat 5 Apr 2014, 9:30, closed)

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