While the second seed of the 3.0 beta firmware offers many of run-of-the-mill bug fixes found in typical beta firmware seeds, it was recently found to do much more than that. The second seed of 3.0 allows users to have up to 11 pages of apps, for a whopping 180 applications in total!
Screenshots of this discovery were first posted at “TheLoopBlog”, and can be viewed here.
As you can see, there are clearly 11 dots at the bottom of the home-screen, meaning that there are, well, 11 pages available for applications. Why anyone would need this many applications is beyond me, not to mention, I’m sure having this many apps must put some sort of processor strain on the iPhone!
This has been confirmed by numerous sources.
The iPhone 3.0 firmware is slated for official release this Summer.
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April 5th, 2009 at 1:53 am
“Why anyone would need this many applications is beyond me, not to mention, I’m sure having this many apps must put some sort of processor strain on the iPhone!”
Really? You must have very limited experience with the iPhone, then. I’d say about half of my friends with iPhones are pushing the current 9 page limit and will welcome the additional pages. And your comment on processor strain confirms my original suspicion about your iPhone experience…because the iPhone does not allow you to run apps concurrently the only strain multiple apps puts on the iPhone is on the storage.
The biggest hassle the additional pages are going to add is the difficulty of arranging the installed apps into those pages.
April 5th, 2009 at 7:18 am
I have been maxed out at 9 pages (mostly free) since about a month after I got it.
The apps are so specialized that you simply need more of them versus a PC. Many of them are simply optimized web apps so they’re basically bookmarks, right?
Apple needs to allow power users to build a deeper and smarter app hierarchy.
April 5th, 2009 at 8:15 am
I can see your point Dan, I guess I just fall into the half that doesn’t really need more space for apps. In fact, many people I know have only 3-4 pages of applications, and for that matter, some haven’t downloaded any at all.
And when I said that it would put a strain on the iPhone, I meant in terms of memory (not processor,) guess I didn’t convey that clearly!
Cheers