iPhone OS 3.0 Springboard Upgrade Adds Pages
Jailbreak users get to have all of the fun with the iPhone's Springboard. They are able to customize nearly every aspect of it with fancy themes, wallpapers, and even folders. They even have a way to include 5 applications per row and a 5-row keyboard. To counter that, or at least make us non-jailbreak users feel an itty bitty bit more equal, Apple will be giving us a couple more pages to allow more applications on the iPhone or iPod touch.
The current iPhone OS only supports a maximum of 9 pages, each containing 16 applications. If you do the math, that adds up to 144 total applications, but we can't forget about the 4 applications on the dock. If you include those, users are allowed to carry up to 148 applications on their device at once. Not too shabby, but we want more!
Recently noticed by one eagle-eyed iPhone user, iPhone OS 3.0 beta 2 bumps the maximum pages up to 11, allowing users to add another 32 applications to their arsenal. With this release, we will have a nice round number of 180 possible applications.
Now all of you application junkies have something to look forward to in the iPhone OS 3.0 update.
[via Loop Blog]
